UptimeGlobe vs StatusCake
A broad, agency-friendly toolkit — priced well above our line once you leave the free plan.
Figures below come from StatusCake’s own pages, checked on .
What StatusCake costs
Free
$0
10 uptime monitors · 5-minute checks · 1 SSL, domain and page-speed monitor
Superior
$24.49/mo
100 monitors · 1-minute checks ($20.41/mo billed yearly)
Business
$79.99/mo
300 monitors · 30-second checks ($66.66/mo billed yearly)
Enterprise
Custom
Custom limits
Monthly rates as published by StatusCake, with their annual rates in brackets.
For reference, UptimeGlobe is free for 10 monitors with checks from 2 regions, and $10/mo for our Starter plan — the full table is on our pricing page.
Side by side
| Feature | UptimeGlobe | StatusCake |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓10 monitors · 2 regions · status page | ✓10 monitors, 5-min |
| Multi-region checks on free | ✓2 regions | ? |
| Origin-vs-network diagnosis | ✓on every alert | ? |
| Status page on free | ✓badge + JSON too | ? |
| Charges per responder / seat | —never | —plan-based pricing |
| Browser / transaction checks | ✓Pro and up (1,500/mo) | ✓ |
| MCP server for AI agents | ✓paid plans | ? |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
✓ yes · — no · ? not published by StatusCake. Where they publish nothing on an axis we say so rather than assuming the answer.
What a 1-minute check costs
Both products give you ten monitors free on a five-minute interval. That’s fine for a blog, but on anything with customers it means an outage can run for five minutes before anyone knows — and that’s the number that ends up in the incident review.
So the real comparison is the cheapest plan that checks every minute:
| Cheapest 1-minute checking | StatusCake | UptimeGlobe |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Superior | Starter |
| Monthly | $24.49 | $10.00 |
| Billed yearly | $20.41/mo | monthly only |
| Monitors included | 100 | 60 from one region |
| Regions per check | not published | up to 3 |
StatusCake figures from their pricing page. They include more monitors at that tier; we include per-region checking and the origin-vs-network diagnosis that depends on it. Each extra region counts as one more of our monitors, so 60 is 30 sites checked from two regions. If you need more, our Pro plan covers two hundred.
A narrower product, at well under half the price
We do one job. Checks run from several regions at once, the results get compared, and every alert tells you whether your origin failed or the route to it did. That’s on the ten-dollar plan, not an upgrade.
Alongside it you get certificate expiry warnings before a cert lapses, heartbeat monitors that page you when a cron job quietly stops running, all 13 alert channels with no per-person fee, public status pages with badges and a JSON feed on every plan including free, and an MCP server your AI assistant can drive.
What we do differently
The reason multi-region matters isn’t coverage, it’s that one vantage point can’t tell two different failures apart. A server that’s fallen over and a broken route to a healthy server look identical from a single probe. Check from three places and they stop looking identical: down everywhere is your origin, down from one is the path.
So the alert can carry a verdict rather than a colour, and you skip the twenty minutes of checking whether it’s even your problem. That comparison runs on every plan we sell, including the free one.
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Try the difference on the free plan
10 monitors, checks from 2 regions, a status page you can use commercially, and a diagnosis on every alert. No card.
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