The status page isn't an upsell
Monitoring without a status page is half a product. Ours is included on every plan — free included — with subscribers and incident updates. StatusCake charges £11.95–£194/month extra for theirs.
247Monitor vs StatusCake
StatusCake sells monitoring, then sells the status page separately — from £11.95 a month on top. With 247Monitor the status page is included on every plan, and browser journeys exist at all.
StatusCake covers the basics well and checks from an impressively long list of locations. But the bill arrives in pieces: the free plan has no public status page, status pages are a separate product starting at £11.95/month, and white-label pages sit on a tier costing roughly £162/month. Browser-based transaction monitoring isn't offered at any price.
247Monitor bundles what you'll actually deploy together — checks, status page, subscribers and alerting — into one plan price, and adds real-browser journeys from the £9 Starter plan up.
Side by side
The table, row by row.
Facts checked against StatusCake's own pricing and documentation, June 2026. Rows where StatusCake wins are marked too — comparisons you can't trust aren't comparisons.
| 247Monitor | StatusCake | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ✓25 monitors · 1-min checks · public status page included | ·10 monitors · 5-min checks · no public status page |
| Status pages | ✓Included on every plan | ·Separate product: £11.95–£193.95/mo on top of monitoring |
| 30-second checks from | ✓£9/mo (Starter) | ·£49.99/mo (Business) |
| Real-browser journeys | ✓Included from Starter — screenshots, console logs, traces | ·Not offered (page-speed snapshots only, not scriptable flows) |
| White-label status pages | ✓Business, £79/mo, includes 25 pages (or £15/mo add-on on Pro) | ·Status-page Gold tier ≈ £162/mo (annual) on top of monitoring |
| Monitoring locations | ·3 continents, cross-region confirmation | ✓43 locations in 30 countries |
| Server / infrastructure agents | ·Not offered — we focus on external checks | ✓Agent-based CPU/RAM/disk monitoring on paid plans |
| Alert channels | —Email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, webhooks on every plan | —14 integrations incl. SMS & voice (SMS quota by plan) |
| Detailed result history | ✓30 days free · 1 year Starter · 2 years Pro · 3 years Business | ·Detailed uptime data held ~30–60 days; longer history is summary-only |
| Currency | —GBP | —GBP |
The case for switching
Why teams pick 247Monitor over StatusCake
Faster checks, smaller invoice
30-second checks cost £9 here versus £49.99 there — and our price includes a browser journey and the status page you'd otherwise bolt on.
Browser journeys, full stop
StatusCake can tell you the page loaded slowly. It can't log in, add to cart, pay, and prove the flow works. Ours can — with the failure screenshot to show you when it doesn't.
History you can actually query
StatusCake keeps detailed uptime data for about a month on most tiers. We keep full results for a year on Starter, two on Pro and three on Business.
Fair's fair
Where StatusCake is the right call
No tool wins every row, including ours. If these describe you, they may genuinely fit better.
You need dozens of probe locations
StatusCake checks from 43 locations in 30 countries; we check from three continents. If per-country reachability is your core requirement, that breadth is real.
You want agent-based server metrics
StatusCake's paid plans include CPU/RAM/disk agents. We deliberately stay on the outside of your servers — black-box checks plus heartbeats — so we don't cover host metrics.
FAQ
Switching questions
Is migrating from StatusCake painful?
No — uptime, SSL, port and heartbeat checks map directly. The usual surprise is pleasant: your status page stops being a separate subscription.
Do you really not do server monitoring?
Correct. We monitor from the outside: HTTP, ports, DNS, SSL, heartbeats and real browsers. For host metrics like CPU and disk you'd pair us with an infrastructure tool — we'd rather be excellent at external checks than mediocre at both.
StatusCake has 43 locations — don't more locations mean better monitoring?
More locations mean more coverage of regional reachability, which matters for some businesses. For most, what matters is fast detection with no false alarms — which is about check frequency and confirmation logic, not the length of the location list.
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