Uptimeify vs. StatusCake
StatusCake enters cheap and covers uptime monitoring solidly, with a free tier that makes trying it easy. The price you see, though, isn't the price you pay: status pages are a separate product over there, with tiers of their own. And when alerts fire on nothing, the cost isn't your patience. It's your credibility with the client.
For agencies and MSPs
- Status pages included, every plan, no page cap
- Your logo on status pages and automated PDF reports
- Every client gets an isolated sub-account, unlimited, no surcharge
- Multi-step browser checks on Playwright, every plan
- Core infrastructure in Germany, check nodes in the EU only
For individual projects
- Status pages exist, but bill as a separate product
- White-label status pages only on the top status-page tier
- No tenant separation for client portfolios
- No synthetic multi-step or transaction checks
- Registered in England and Wales, no EU data residency in the strict sense
As of July 2026. StatusCake details are based on publicly available information and are subject to change. Prices in the source's original currency, not converted. Spotted something wrong? Tell us, we'll fix it. Uptimeify on-call scheduling plus acknowledgement and incident timeline are marked beta.
In short
StatusCake is built for someone watching a handful of their own projects on a small budget. Entry is cheap, the UI is quickly understood, and for a single project the package holds up.
The moment you look after other people's sites, three things change. The status page stops being a side feature and becomes a client touchpoint, and suddenly its pricing tiers sit between you and your margin. Every false alert no longer lands only with you, but with the client who holds you responsible for an outage that never happened. And the question of where the data lives shows up in tenders on its own.
That's where Uptimeify picks up: status pages are part of the plan, not the cart. Every suspected failure is checked across several EU nodes before anyone gets woken up. And the infrastructure sits in Germany.
Feature by feature
- 1Beta: On-call scheduling and acknowledgement & incident timeline are currently in beta and not officially launched yet.
As of July 2026. Figures on StatusCake are based on publicly available information and may change. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Where Uptimeify leads
Three things the big players solve differently. And that we built for your agency.
Status pages aren't a second subscription. At StatusCake the status page is its own product: Bronze at 12.46 USD for one page, Silver at 41.63 USD for five, Gold at 208.29 USD for ten, and white-label only arrives at Gold. Uptimeify includes status pages in every plan, with your logo, on your domain, so your margin doesn't track the number of clients you serve.
Alerts only when something is actually broken. StatusCake has recurring, documented false-positive reports, up to 180 false alerts in a single day, with individual users describing accuracy of 50 percent or less when running it side by side with another tool. Uptimeify verifies every suspected failure across multiple independent EU nodes before opening an incident, and you set how many consecutive failed checks it takes, so your client never gets an all-clear they never needed.
One account per client, not one long list. StatusCake offers no tenant separation, and the Superior package covers two team members. At Uptimeify every client gets an isolated sub-account with granular roles, unlimited and at no surcharge, so you grant access per client instead of per compromise.
Where StatusCake wins
No tool wins everywhere. Three points where StatusCake is the better call.
The free tier. StatusCake gives you 10 monitors at 5-minute intervals, free and permanent. Uptimeify has no permanent free plan, just a 14-day trial covering 25 monitors.
A lot of monitors for little money. Superior brings 100 monitors at 1-minute intervals for 20.41 to 24.49 USD per month, or 16.66 EUR billed annually. If you only need uptime and no status page, that's a lot of volume for the price.
An established product that's easy to drive. StatusCake is operated by TrafficCake Limited in England and Wales and has been in market for years. If you want uptime monitoring without portfolio ambitions, you'll be running in minutes.
Frequently asked questions
It's a separate subscription alongside your monitoring plan. The tiers: Bronze at 12.46 USD per month for one page and 300 subscribers, Silver at 41.63 USD for five pages and 1,500 subscribers, Gold at 208.29 USD for ten pages, 7,000 subscribers and white-label. Realistically: Superior at 24.49 USD plus Bronze at 12.46 USD comes to 36.95 USD per month, and the page still carries StatusCake's branding, because white-label starts at Gold. Serve ten clients with a status page each and you're in Gold territory. Uptimeify includes status pages in the plan, with your logo, no per-page surcharge.
Yes. Create your clients and monitors in the dashboard, or automate the move through our REST API: customers, websites, status pages and notification channels are all API-creatable. Since StatusCake has no tenant separation, the migration is the right moment to cut your portfolio along client lines. For larger estates, our team helps with the import.
Uptimeify's core infrastructure runs in Germany, in Frankfurt and Nuremberg. Check nodes sit in Europe only: Nuremberg and Falkenstein in Germany, plus Zurich, Prague, Helsinki, Milan and Warsaw. We operate without US sub-processors, and a DPA is ready to sign. StatusCake is operated by TrafficCake Limited in England and Wales. The UK holds an EU Commission adequacy decision, extended to December 2031 and revocable in principle. That isn't a data protection failing, but it is a conversation you'll have to hold in regulated tenders. With German infrastructure, you don't hold it.
Nothing. White-label ships in every plan: status pages on your own domain via CNAME, PDF reports carrying your logo, delivery through your own SMTP, no "powered by" underneath. Unlimited sub-accounts carry no surcharge either. Your plan tracks one thing, the number of monitors: 10 monitors at 29 EUR, 25 at 69 EUR, 50 at 120 EUR, 100 at 220 EUR, 200 at 420 EUR.
A single failed check doesn't open an incident here. Every suspected failure is cross-checked from multiple independent nodes in different EU countries, and you set per monitor how many consecutive failed checks are required before anyone is alerted. On top of that, maintenance windows suppress alerts during planned work, including by tag across whole groups of monitors. The point isn't to alert less. The point is that an alert means something when it arrives.
No. Real user monitoring, transaction and API monitoring, and synthetic multi-step checks are all missing from StatusCake. You're testing whether a page responds, not whether your client makes it through checkout. Uptimeify ships Playwright-based multi-step browser flows in every plan: login, cart, checkout, as a sequence of real steps in a real browser.
Move off StatusCake in minutes
Status pages in the plan, not in the cart. Alerts confirmed across several EU nodes before your client ever sees them.