compare · alertping vs statuscake
StatusCake alternative with 30-second checks, SMS included and 3-region confirmation
Short answer: switch to AlertPing if you want a 30-second check interval and SMS alerts without buying a top-tier plan. On StatusCake, 30-second testing lives on Business at $79.99/mo billed monthly. On AlertPing it starts on Team at $59/mo, and every plan includes SMS with no credits. Stay on StatusCake if you need page speed monitoring and domain expiry monitoring bundled with uptime, because we do not offer either.
Last updated July 2026 · StatusCake prices checked July 2026, verify on their site
alertping ▸ run check
live
▸ type a domain and run a real-feel check
▸ probes from 3 regions · FRA · IAD · SIN
▸ waiting…▌
queued probing▌
If ever goes down, you get:
Alert fired ▸ 2 channels · 6.2 s after first failure
AlertPing app
● DOWN : HTTP timeout confirmed from 3/3 regions (FRA, IAD, SIN). Incident opened.
sms · on-call
AlertPing: DOWN. Confirmed 3/3 regions . First fail: Frankfurt.
side by side
AlertPing vs StatusCake, line by line
StatusCake pricing and limits below were read off statuscake.com in July 2026; plans change, so check their site before you sign anything. Our numbers live on the uptime monitoring pricing page and do not move with monitor count.
| AlertPing | StatusCake | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $19/mo Starter ($15 billed yearly) | $24.49/mo Superior billed monthly ($20.41/mo billed annually) |
| Monitors on that plan | 20 on Starter, 100 on Team, 500 on Business | 100 uptime monitors on Superior, 300 on Business |
| Check interval on entry paid plan | 60 s on Starter, 30 s on Team and up, 15 s on Enterprise | 1 minute on Superior, 5 minutes on the free plan |
| What a 30-second interval costs | $59/mo Team ($47 billed yearly), 100 monitors | $79.99/mo Business billed monthly ($66.66/mo annually) |
| SMS alerts | Included in every plan, no credits, no per-message fees | Available, gated and metered by plan rather than flat included |
| Multi-region confirmation | 3 of 3 regions (FRA, IAD, SIN) must agree before any alert | Confirms from a second location before alerting |
| Status pages | Hosted and branded on every plan; custom domain on Business and up | Public status pages available |
| Page speed and domain expiry monitoring | Not offered. We do uptime, SSL, ports and cron heartbeats | Bundled in. 15 page speed and 50 domain monitors on Superior |
| Free tier | No free tier. 7-day trial, no card | Free plan: 10 uptime monitors at a 5-minute interval; 7-day trial on paid plans, no card |
to be fair
When StatusCake is the better fit
- You want page speed monitoring in the same bill as uptime. StatusCake gives you 15 page speed monitors on Superior. We give you zero, because we do not build it.
- You track domain expiry dates and want the reminder in the same tool. Superior includes 50 domain monitors. We do not monitor domain expiry at all.
- You need 100 monitors cheaply and a 1-minute interval is fine. At $20.41/mo billed annually, Superior is genuinely good value for that shape of workload.
- You value a long track record. StatusCake has been running these checks for years and it shows.
If that describes you, stay put. We would rather lose the signup than sell you a worse fit and read about it in a churn survey.
why teams move
Where AlertPing pulls ahead
The people who switch are usually the ones who got tired of the interval ladder. On StatusCake, a 30-second test interval is a Business feature at $79.99 a month billed monthly. That is a real number to justify when all you wanted was faster detection on eight production endpoints. Our website monitoring tool puts 30-second checks on Team at $59 a month, with 100 monitors, escalation chains and 15 seats.
- 30-second checks one tier lower. Team, not top of the ladder. Enterprise goes to 15 seconds if you need it.
- SMS in every plan, flat. No credit packs, no per-message fee, no plan gate. Email, Slack and webhook downtime alerts ship with it.
- 3-of-3 regional confirmation. Frankfurt, Virginia and Singapore all have to agree before your phone buzzes. One flaky route never pages you.
- Escalation chains and on-call hours. The alert walks up the chain until a human acknowledges it, instead of dying in a Slack channel at 3am.
- Branded status pages on every plan, plus SSL certificate monitoring, TCP/UDP ports, ICMP ping and cron heartbeats.
30 s checks at $59 | 3-of-3 confirmation | sms: $0 extra
do the math
Why the check interval is the whole argument
A check interval is not a vanity spec. It is the size of the window in which your site can be broken and nobody knows.
5-minute interval
up to 5:00
The free StatusCake plan tests every 5 minutes. A four-minute outage that starts just after a probe and ends just before the next one is invisible: two green results, no incident, no alert. Your customers saw it. Your monitoring did not.
1-minute interval
up to 1:00
Superior tests every minute, which is a serious improvement. Detection is bounded to about a minute, and short blips still slip between probes. For most marketing sites that is honestly enough.
30-second interval
up to 0:30
Worst case, you learn about it about half a minute after it starts, plus one confirmation cycle. For checkout, login and payment APIs, the difference between 30 seconds and 5 minutes is the difference between a blip and a refund queue.
Here is the honest version of the trade. Faster intervals do not make you more reliable; they shorten the part of an incident where you are guessing. If your revenue does not care about four minutes, a 1-minute or even 5-minute interval is a rational choice and you should take the cheaper plan. If it does care, the question is what the faster interval costs, and that is exactly where the two products separate: $79.99 a month billed monthly on StatusCake Business, $59 a month on AlertPing Team.
people also ask
Straight answers about StatusCake pricing and alternatives
Is StatusCake free?
Yes, StatusCake has a free plan: 10 uptime monitors on a 5-minute test interval. It is a real product, not a teaser, and it is fine for hobby projects. The catch is the interval, since a five-minute gap can hide a whole outage. Paid plans also come with a 7-day trial and no credit card required.
What is the best StatusCake alternative?
It depends on what you were paying StatusCake for. If you want faster checks and SMS without upgrading to a top plan, AlertPing gives you 30-second checks and included SMS from $59 a month. Also worth comparing: our Pingdom alternative and UptimeRobot alternative pages.
How much does StatusCake cost?
As of July 2026, Superior is $24.49 a month billed monthly ($20.41 billed annually) for 100 uptime monitors at a 1-minute interval. Business is $79.99 a month billed monthly ($66.66 annually) for 300 monitors at 30 seconds. Enterprise is custom priced. Verify current numbers on their pricing page.
What is a good uptime check interval?
For anything that takes money, 30 to 60 seconds. That bounds detection to under a minute instead of leaving a multi-minute blind spot. Use 5 minutes only for pages where a short outage costs you nothing. Pair any interval with multi-region confirmation, or you will trade speed for false alarms.
migration path
Moving off StatusCake in an afternoon
Nothing here is locked in. Uptime monitors are URLs, hosts and ports, and both products will hand yours back on request. The move is copy, verify, cancel.
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Export your test list
Pull your uptime tests from the StatusCake dashboard or its API. What you need is the URL or host, the port, the expected keyword and the contact groups. Note which tests are page speed or domain checks, since those stay behind.
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Recreate them in AlertPing
Paste the URLs, IPs and ports. Map keyword tests to HTTP keyword or JSON assertions, add SSL and cron heartbeat checks, then wire SMS numbers, Slack channels and your escalation chain. First checks run within seconds.
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Run both for a week, then cancel
Overlap the two so every alert path is proven with a real incident, not a test message. Compare what each caught. Then point your status page at AlertPing and close the StatusCake account.
switching questions
Asked by every StatusCake switcher
Do I lose page speed and domain monitoring if I switch?
Yes, and we will not pretend otherwise. AlertPing does not do page speed monitoring or domain expiry monitoring. We cover uptime, SSL certificate expiry, ping, TCP/UDP ports and cron heartbeats. If those two features are load-bearing for you, StatusCake is the better tool.
Is AlertPing cheaper than StatusCake?
Not at every point on the curve. Superior at $20.41 a month billed annually undercuts our Starter for 100 monitors. The comparison flips at 30-second checks: StatusCake asks $79.99 a month billed monthly on Business, AlertPing asks $59 on Team, SMS included.
Can I import my StatusCake tests?
Practically, yes. Export your test list, then recreate the URLs, hosts and ports in AlertPing and re-point your contacts. Most teams finish in an afternoon and keep both running for a week before cancelling, which is what we recommend.
Still deciding? Try the interactive demo against your own domain, or read the full plan comparison.
Get 30-second checks without the top-tier bill
SMS in every plan, outages confirmed from 3 regions, flat pricing. Run AlertPing next to StatusCake for a week and decide with data.