StatusCake vs UptimeRobot Compared on Price, SMS Credits and Phone Call Alerts

Neither wins outright. StatusCake gives more for the money at 100 monitors and bundles page speed, domain and server monitoring into the same plan. UptimeRobot checks more often, includes seats and status pages, and has the larger free plan. For plain website and API uptime on a small budget, the deciding factors are usually check speed and how many people need logins.

Small details tip it. StatusCake Superior has only one team member, so a three person team lands on Business at $79.99. UptimeRobot Team covers three seats at 41 euros. But a team that needs 100 monitors and one login pays less on StatusCake than anywhere else in this comparison. Our StatusCake alternative and UptimeRobot alternative pages cover what happens when alerting is the real problem.

StatusCake is cheaper at 100 monitors and roughly level with UptimeRobot at 200 to 300. Both are cheaper than TrackDowntime at every size up to 300 monitors, and we would rather say so here than have you find it later. Where we come out ahead is above 300 endpoints, and on what happens after the alert fires.

StatusCake figures were read from statuscake.com/pricing on October 5, 2026, in US dollars. UptimeRobot bills plans in euros, read from uptimerobot.com/pricing the same day. StatusCake status pages add $14.95 to $249.96 a month on top; every plan and add-on is in our StatusCake pricing breakdown.

Yes, as an integration attached to a contact group. StatusCake's knowledge base says repeat alerts do not apply to phone calls, so you get one call when a test goes down, and the account sends at most one call every 5 minutes even if several tests fail together. SMS alerts do not repeat either. Email and mobile push do.

That design stops a big outage from producing a flood of calls. The price is that the call is a single chance. If it arrives at 3am and nobody picks up, nothing rings again until the next down event.

Yes, on every plan including the free one, but calls are paid for with prepaid credits. Each voice call uses 2 credits anywhere in the world and a text to a US number uses 1. Packs run from $3 for 10 credits to $100 for 1,000. The 10 to 200 credits bundled with a paid plan are a single allocation that does not renew.

For a three person rota that wants a call and a text per round, one round costs 9 credits, and an outage that repeats the alert 15 times costs 135. When the balance hits zero mid incident, the next call does not go out. Pack sizes and the auto refill rules are in our guide to UptimeRobot SMS credits and voice call costs.

UptimeRobot's pricing page describes the free plan as good for hobby and non-profit projects. It gives 50 monitors at 5 minute intervals with 3 months of data, no SSL monitoring and no seats. StatusCake describes its free plan as for individuals and small businesses: 10 uptime monitors at 5 minutes, 1 page speed, 1 domain and 1 SSL monitor. For a business site, the paid tiers of either are the honest starting point.

Both tools are built to tell you something is down. Neither is built to make sure somebody is awake to fix it. If your last missed outage came down to one call or one text nobody saw, the fix is a call that goes to every number on the endpoint and repeats, at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 minutes and then at 2, 4, 8, 24, 48 and 96 hours, until the check passes. That is how our phone call downtime alerts work, with no credits and no monthly SMS allowance to watch.

We are narrower than either vendor and we say so. TrackDowntime checks HTTP and HTTPS endpoints, response time, DNS and SSL expiry from a single location. There are no page speed tests, no status pages, no keyword match and no public API. Alerts go out by phone call, SMS, email, a Slack channel and a signed webhook. If you need multi location checks or status pages, StatusCake or UptimeRobot will serve you better.

Take 25 production endpoints, three engineers on US numbers, and four incidents a month with five alert rounds each.

On StatusCake, three logins push you to Business at $79.99 a month. SMS and calls do not repeat there, so four incidents use 12 texts of the 400 credit allowance and produce four calls, one per incident. On UptimeRobot, Team at 41 euros covers the seats. Each round of a call and a text to three people costs 9 credits, so twenty rounds cost 180 credits a month, about $25 in packs every month once the bundled 30 are gone.

On TrackDowntime Professional, $99 a month or $49 billed yearly, all three numbers are called and texted on every round until recovery, and the bill is the same whether the month had zero incidents or twenty. Every downtime is stored with its start, end and duration for 90 days, which our downtime tracker turns into an outage log you can export.