A status page on every plan
Every PulseStack™ plan includes public status pages: 1 on Free, 3 on Starter, 10 on Pro and 100 on Team. StatusCake sells status pages separately as StatusCake Pages, from £11.95 a month.
StatusCake alternative
StatusCake is a UK monitoring service, founded in 2012, with a free plan of 10 uptime monitors and paid plans from £14.99 a month. PulseStack™ includes a public status page on every plan, Free included, gives you 25 free website monitors, and adds SEO monitoring to uptime, SSL and domain checks.
Free plan with no card required. 14-day trial on every paid plan.
StatusCake facts from statuscake.com, checked on 15 October 2026. Monthly prices, before annual discounts.
The differences that matter most, with the facts behind them.
Every PulseStack™ plan includes public status pages: 1 on Free, 3 on Starter, 10 on Pro and 100 on Team. StatusCake sells status pages separately as StatusCake Pages, from £11.95 a month.
The PulseStack™ Free plan covers 25 website monitors at 5-minute intervals, with commercial use allowed. StatusCake's free plan has 10 uptime monitors at 5-minute intervals.
PulseStack™ checks every 30 seconds from the Pro plan at £19 a month. StatusCake's 30-second interval comes with its Business plan at £49.99 a month.
From the Starter plan, eight SEO checks watch whether search engines can crawl, render and index your pages, alongside uptime, SSL, DNS and domain monitors.
Paid PulseStack™ plans start with a 14-day trial with no card. StatusCake's paid plans come with a 7-day trial.
Plans run from £9 to £99 a month, with 20% off for annual billing. No per-check add-ons for the essentials.
A fair comparison includes where the other tool is ahead.
StatusCake lists 43 test locations in 30 countries, and paid plans can choose where tests run. PulseStack™ checks from three: London, New York and Sydney.
StatusCake includes dedicated page speed monitors (1 on Free, 15 on Superior). PulseStack™ records response time on every check but has no page speed scoring.
StatusCake's free plan includes 1 SSL monitor and 1 domain monitor. PulseStack™ SSL and domain expiry monitors start on the Starter plan at £9 a month.
Feature by feature, from each provider's own published plans.
| Capability | PulseStack™ | StatusCake |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 25 website monitors at 5-minute intervals, 1 status page, email alerts | 10 uptime monitors at 5-minute intervals, 1 page speed, 1 domain and 1 SSL monitor |
| Status pages | Included: 1 on Free, 3 on Starter, 10 on Pro, 100 on Team | StatusCake Pages, sold separately: Bronze £11.95, Silver £39.95, Gold £193.95 a month |
| Entry paid plan | Starter, £9 a month: 50 monitors, 60-second checks | Superior, £14.99 a month (£12.49 billed annually): 100 uptime monitors, 1-minute checks |
| Fastest checks | 30 seconds, from Pro at £19 a month | 30 seconds, on Business at £49.99 a month (£41.66 billed annually) |
| SSL monitoring | From Starter: hourly checks, alert at a lead time you set | 1 SSL monitor (24-hour checks) on Free, 50 on Superior (30-minute checks) |
| Domain monitoring | Domain expiry monitors from Starter | 1 domain monitor on Free, 50 on Superior |
| Check locations | London, New York and Sydney | 43 locations in 30 countries; choose locations on paid plans |
| Page speed monitoring | Response time on every check, no page speed scoring | 1 page speed monitor on Free, 15 on Superior |
| SEO monitoring | 8 crawl and index checks, from Starter | Not listed on its pricing page |
| Free trial of paid plans | 14 days, no card | 7 days, no credit card |
StatusCake details from statuscake.com/pricing, statuscake.com/status-page, statuscake.com/locations and statuscake.com/about-us, checked on 15 October 2026. Prices and plans change, so check with StatusCake before you decide.
There is no automatic import, but most accounts are moved in an afternoon.
Sign up in a minute with no card. The Free plan runs 25 website monitors at 5-minute intervals.
Add each URL from your StatusCake list. Paid plans add keyword, port, ping, API, SSL, DNS and domain expiry monitors.
Send alerts by email, or on paid plans to Slack, Teams, Discord, PagerDuty, Telegram and webhooks. SMS comes with Team and Enterprise, or as an add-on.
Turn on a public status page, then switch off StatusCake once you are happy with the new alerts.
Prices in pounds, per month. Annual billing saves 20% and paid plans start with a 14-day trial, no card needed.
25 website monitors, 5-minute checks, 1 status page, email alerts, no card.
50 monitors, 60-second checks, every monitor type, SSL, DNS and domain expiry.
150 monitors, 30-second checks, 10 status pages, competitor tracking.
500 monitors, 30-second checks, server diagnostics, 3 seats, custom domains.
2,000 monitors, 30-second checks, 5 seats.
It is if you want a status page included, more monitors on the free plan or 30-second checks without paying for StatusCake's Business plan. PulseStack™ includes a public status page on every plan, 25 free monitors and 30-second checks from £19 a month. StatusCake is ahead on check locations (43 in 30 countries) and has page speed monitoring, which PulseStack™ does not.
Yes. On 15 October 2026 StatusCake's pricing page listed a free plan with 10 uptime monitors at 5-minute intervals, plus 1 page speed monitor, 1 domain monitor and 1 SSL monitor. The PulseStack™ Free plan has 25 website monitors at 5-minute intervals and a public status page; its SSL and domain monitors start on the Starter plan.
On 15 October 2026 StatusCake listed Superior at £14.99 a month (£12.49 a month billed annually) with 100 uptime monitors at 1-minute intervals, and Business at £49.99 a month (£41.66 billed annually) with 300 uptime monitors at 30-second intervals. Status pages are a separate product, StatusCake Pages, from £11.95 a month. PulseStack™ plans run from £9 to £99 a month with status pages included.
StatusCake. Its locations page lists 43 test locations in 30 countries, and paid plans can choose where tests run. PulseStack™ checks websites from London, New York and Sydney and marks a monitor down only when at least two of the three fail, which filters out local network blips.
Yes, by adding them again: there is no automatic import. Create a free account, add each URL as a monitor, connect your alert channels and publish a status page. Keep StatusCake running until you are happy with the new alerts, then switch it off.
Yes. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial with no card needed. StatusCake's paid plans have a 7-day free trial, also without a credit card, according to its pricing page.
Start free with 25 monitors and a status page, with no card. Run both side by side for a week and keep whichever serves you better.
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