StatusCake costs $0 on Free, $20.41 a month on Superior and $66.66 a month on Business when billed yearly, or $24.49 and $79.99 billed monthly, with Enterprise quoted. That is $244.92 or $799.92 a year. Per monitor it is one of the cheapest paid uptime tools on the US market: Superior works out at about 20 cents a monitor. The catch sits in two places. The 30-second interval is only on Business, so getting it costs 3.27 times the Superior price, and SMS alerts come as a monthly credit allowance of 75 or 400 rather than being included.
Every figure below was read from statuscake.com/pricing and StatusCake's terms and conditions. The arithmetic is ours and every step is shown, so you can swap in your own monitor count.
The StatusCake plans for 2026
StatusCake sells three self-serve tiers and a custom Enterprise plan. The pricing page shows both columns behind an annual and monthly toggle, and unlike several competitors both sets of numbers are printed in the page itself, so there is nothing to guess.
| Line item | Free | Superior | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per month, billed yearly | $0 | $20.41 | $66.66 | Quoted |
| Per month, billed monthly | $0 | $24.49 | $79.99 | Quoted |
| Uptime monitors | 10 | 100 | 300 | Limitless |
| Fastest uptime interval | 5 minutes | 1 minute | 30 seconds | Constant |
| Page speed monitors | 1, daily | 15, every 15 min | 30, every 5 min | Custom |
| SSL monitors | 1, daily | 50, every 30 min | 100, every 10 min | Custom |
| Domain monitors | 1 | 50 | 120 | Custom |
| Server monitors | None | 3 | 10 | Custom |
| SMS credits per month | None | 75 | 400 | Custom |
| Team members | None | 1 | 9 | Custom |
| Custom locations | No | Yes | Yes | Dedicated |
| White label reports | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Audit log, dashboards | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Pay by invoice | No | No | Yearly only | Yes |
Every paid plan comes with a 7-day free trial and no credit card. Enterprise adds what the page calls limitless monitors, a constant check rate, dedicated uptime and page speed locations and service-creditable SLAs, and it is priced by conversation.
How much does StatusCake cost per year?
Paying yearly saves 16.66% on both paid plans. That is exactly two months free: the yearly Superior price of $244.92 is ten months of the monthly $24.49, give or take a few cents of rounding.
| Plan | 12 months, billed monthly | 12 months, billed yearly | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior | $293.88 | $244.92 | $48.96 |
| Business | $959.88 | $799.92 | $159.96 |
For comparison, the UptimeRobot rate card and the Pingdom rate card are broken down the same way, and the uptime monitoring pricing comparison lines up fifteen tools in US dollars.
How much does one StatusCake monitor cost?
This is where StatusCake is genuinely hard to beat. Divide the plan price by the monitors it includes and the per-monitor cost is lower than almost anything else in the category.
| Plan | Monitors | Fastest interval | Per monitor, yearly billing | Per monitor, monthly billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StatusCake Superior | 100 | 1 minute | $0.20 | $0.24 |
| StatusCake Business | 300 | 30 seconds | $0.22 | $0.27 |
| AlertPing Starter | 20 | 60 seconds | $1.20 | $2.45 |
| AlertPing Team | 100 | 30 seconds | $0.29 | $0.59 |
We put our own plans in that table on purpose. If you need a hundred one-minute checks and nothing else, StatusCake Superior at $20.41 is the cheaper buy and we would not argue with it. The comparison only turns when you fill fewer monitors than the plan includes, or when you need the 30-second interval.
Which StatusCake plan has 30-second checks?
Only Business. Superior stops at one minute, so the price of halving your detection time is the jump from $24.49 to $79.99 a month, or $20.41 to $66.66 on yearly billing. That is 3.27 times the price and $555 a year extra on yearly billing.
To be fair to StatusCake, the jump buys more than an interval: 200 more monitors, 325 more SMS credits, 8 more team members, an audit log, dashboards, custom alert email templates and the option to pay by invoice. If you use those, Business is good value. If what you actually wanted was 30 seconds on 40 endpoints, you are paying for 260 monitors you will not create.
That is the one case where we are cheaper. AlertPing Team gives 100 monitors at 30 seconds for $59 a month, or $348 a year on yearly billing, which is $451.92 a year less than StatusCake Business on yearly billing and $251.88 less on monthly. The full side-by-side is on our StatusCake alternative page.
Does StatusCake charge for SMS alerts?
Not directly, but it rations them. Superior includes 75 SMS credits a month and Business includes 400. The Free plan includes none, so free accounts alert by email and integrations only.
Whether 75 is enough depends on how many people you page. Assume one credit per text and a three-person rota that gets a down message and a recovery message. That is 6 credits an incident, so Superior's allowance covers about 12 incidents a month and Business about 66. A flapping endpoint that goes down and up repeatedly in one night can use a week of credits in an hour. AlertPing includes SMS, email, Slack and webhook alerts on every plan with no credit allowance, which matters most on exactly those bad nights.
Does StatusCake offer discounts?
Yes, two kinds. The yearly toggle is worth two months free, as above. On top of that, StatusCake's pricing FAQ lists multi-year discounts: 12.5% for two years, 25% for three and 40% for five, with the full fee paid at the start. If those percentages apply to the yearly list price, the arithmetic looks like this:
| Term | Discount | Superior, paid upfront | Business, paid upfront | Business, effective per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 years | 12.5% | $428.61 | $1,399.86 | $58.33 |
| 3 years | 25% | $551.07 | $1,799.82 | $49.99 |
| 5 years | 40% | $734.76 | $2,399.76 | $40.00 |
A five-year Business commitment brings 30-second checks down to an effective $40 a month, which undercuts almost everyone. It also means paying $2,399.76 today for a tool you cannot leave until 2031. Confirm the base the discount applies to with StatusCake before you budget on it.
Can you cancel StatusCake anytime?
On card billing, yes. StatusCake's terms say you can cancel a paid account at any time and keep the paid features until the end of the current billing period. There is no mid-term refund implied by that wording, so a yearly plan cancelled in month two still runs to month twelve.
Invoice billing is different, and this is the line most buyers miss. Paying by invoice is only offered on Business Yearly and above, subscriptions auto-renew, and clause 8 of the terms requires written notice by email no later than 70 days before the renewal date. Miss that window and another year is committed. If your finance team runs vendor bills through accounts payable automation, record the 70-day notice date on the vendor record when the first invoice is approved, because the renewal invoice arrives long after the deadline to stop it has passed. Invoices are due within 30 days and StatusCake issues them in USD among six other currencies.
Does StatusCake have a free plan?
Yes. Free includes 10 uptime monitors at a 5-minute interval, 1 page speed monitor, 1 SSL monitor and 1 domain monitor, with alerts through email and integrations. It has no SMS credits, no server monitors and no team members, so it suits one person watching a personal site. A 5-minute interval means an outage runs two and a half minutes on average before the first failed check, which is slow for anything that takes payments.
Three worked StatusCake bills
Three buyers we see often, priced on yearly billing so the numbers are comparable.
| Buyer | Need | StatusCake plan and cost | Alternative and cost | Honest pick |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agency, 60 client sites | 1-minute checks, white label reports | Superior, $244.92 a year | AlertPing Team, $348 a year | StatusCake |
| SaaS team, 40 endpoints | 30-second checks, 3 people on SMS | Business, $799.92 a year | AlertPing Team, $348 a year | AlertPing |
| Store owner, 5 URLs | 1-minute checks, SMS to one phone | Superior, $244.92 a year | AlertPing Starter, $288 a year | Either, AlertPing if SMS volume matters |
The agency row is the one where StatusCake wins outright, since 100 monitors at one minute for $244.92 is more coverage per dollar than we sell. The SaaS row flips because the team pays for 300 monitors to get an interval. The store row is close, and turns on whether 75 SMS credits a month will hold through a bad week.
Is StatusCake worth it?
For wide coverage at one minute, yes. Few tools match 100 monitors plus 50 SSL and 50 domain monitors for about $20 a month, and the page speed and domain checks are useful extras most uptime tools do not include. It is a weaker fit if you need a short interval on a small number of important endpoints, if several people must receive texts during long incidents, or if you will pay by invoice and could miss a 70-day notice window. If you are weighing it against a specific rival, see StatusCake vs UptimeRobot and StatusCake vs Pingdom. For teams coming from a synthetic suite, our Uptrends alternative page shows where StatusCake and AlertPing sit on the 30-second price ladder.
The short version
StatusCake prices are printed in full and they are low: $20.41 and $66.66 a month on yearly billing, $24.49 and $79.99 monthly. Superior is the best per-monitor deal in the category at one minute. The costs to watch are the 3.27 times step to reach 30 seconds, the 75 and 400 SMS credit allowances, and the 70-day written notice on invoice-billed renewals. Price the plan by the interval you need first and the monitor count second, because that order is what decides which tool is cheaper.