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RealUptime Status vs StatusCake
StatusCake sells uptime monitoring and public status pages as two separate products with two separate price tags: StatusCake Pages starts at $12.46/mo (billed annually) for one page on top of whatever uptime plan is already paid for. RealUptime Status is one product at one price: the monitor and the public status page ship together on every tier, including Free.
Status page bundled with monitoring at one price
Have
monitor and public status page ship as one product, every tier
Don’t have
StatusCake Pages is a separate product, from $12.46/mo (billed annually) for 1 page, on top of an uptime plan
Free tier
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10 monitors, 4 regions, $0/mo
Have
10 uptime monitors, 5-minute checks, $0/mo; status pages billed separately
Check interval minimum on free tier
Have
1 minute
Partial
5 minutes on Free; 1 minute from Superior ($20.41/mo annual), 30 seconds on Business ($66.66/mo annual)
Multiple named regions shown together per check
Have
4 named regions checked and shown together by default, configurable per monitor up to what the plan includes (four regions on Free, eight on Growth, all ten on Scale)
Not published
custom test locations are selectable from Superior up, per their own docs, but whether multiple locations run and display together per check is not documented
Status-page password protection
Have
Growth and Scale, one shared password per page
Have
on StatusCake Pages Silver and up ($41.63/mo billed annually)
Team access
Have
owner, admin and responder roles
Have
not included on Free, 1 on Superior, 9 on Business
Monitor types beyond HTTP(S)
Partial
TCP and TLS port checks, DNS record checks, ping, mail-server (SMTP) checks, multi-step HTTP journeys, heartbeat/cron push monitoring, and browser checks on Scale, plus HTTP(S) endpoints
Have
page speed, domain, SSL, and server monitors, plus uptime, per their own pricing page
REST API
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Growth and Scale
Have
public REST API (v1.2.0); which tier it requires is not specified in their published docs
Webhook notifications
Have
HMAC-signed, every tier including Free
Partial
a single GET-only ping_url endpoint per their API docs, not HMAC-signed, and not tier-gated in published docs
Annual billing discount
Have
12 months for the price of 10 (roughly 2 months free) on Growth and Scale
Have
roughly 17% off Superior and Business when paid yearly
StatusCake pricing in 2026
As published on StatusCake's pricing page (verified September 7, 2026): Free is $0 for 10 uptime monitors at 5-minute intervals, with no team member seats; Superior is $24.49/mo, or $20.41/mo billed annually, for 100 monitors at 1-minute intervals with 1 team member; Business is $79.99/mo, or $66.66/mo billed annually, for 300 monitors at 30-second intervals with 9 team members; Enterprise is custom. Superior and Business also include page speed, domain, SSL, and server monitors in varying counts.
The number those tiers leave out is the status page: StatusCake Pages is a separate product from $12.46/mo (billed annually) for one page, on top of whichever uptime plan is already paid for, with password protection from its Silver tier at $41.63/mo. RealUptime Status is $0, $28.99/mo on Growth, or $78.99/mo on Scale, and the public status page is part of the product on every tier rather than a second line item. If you need StatusCake's wider monitor types, its bundle math may still win; if you need a monitor and a status page, one price against two is the comparison that matters.
Is there a free tier?
RealUptime is free to start and never asks for a card. One signup turns on the free rung of every product: 10 monitors with a public status page, 5 server-agent slots, and 10,000 error events a month kept for 14 days. RealUptime Outages is free to read with no account at all.
StatusCake: 10 uptime monitors on 5-minute checks at $0/mo, with status pages billed separately.
Is it open source or self-hosted?
RealUptime's core is a hosted service and its source is not published, so there is no self-hosted edition of the platform itself. The parts that run on your side are open source at github.com/RealUptimeHQ: the CLI and the RealUptime Errors SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP and Ruby are MIT-licensed, and the Grafana data source is Apache 2.0.
StatusCake: a hosted product that publishes no source and no self-hosted edition.
If self-hosting is a hard requirement, these are the open-source options in this category: Uptime Kuma (MIT), OpenStatus (AGPL-3.0), Healthchecks.io (BSD 3-Clause) and OneUptime (Apache 2.0).
Looking for a StatusCake alternative?
For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.