comparing hosted monitors
Pingdom vs StatusCake: what you actually get
Two of the oldest names in hosted uptime monitoring, built for different buyers. Pingdom is a digital-experience suite inside the SolarWinds portfolio; StatusCake is an independent UK product with a generous value ladder. The facts first, then where Uptimepage sits.
the facts, side by side
| Pingdom | StatusCake | Uptimepage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| free tier | no, 30-day trial | yes, 10 monitors @ 5 min | yes, no card |
| pricing model | usage ladders per product | three tiers + add-ons | free · founding · Pro |
| check types | HTTP · TCP · ping · DNS · UDP · mail | HTTP · TCP · DNS · SSH · SMTP · ping · push | HTTP · TCP · DNS · TLS · ping · domain |
| fastest uptime interval | 1 min | 30s on top tier | 60s free · 30s Pro · 10s self-hosted |
| browser transactions + RUM | yes, core products | page speed only, no RUM | no |
| probe locations | ~100 locations | 30+ countries | EU · US · Asia-Pacific + run your own |
| status page | included | separate paid add-on | included, branded |
| page subscribers | not published | email · SMS, capped per add-on tier | email · webhook |
| open source / self-host | no | no | AGPL |
| team members | unlimited on all plans | capped per tier | orgs + roles |
Pingdom check types from its public API spec; StatusCake types from its features pages.
Both vendors geo-localize prices, so tiers are described by shape rather than numbers.
Verified July 2026 against both vendors' public pages. Refresh when either changes plans.
The pricing split
StatusCake has a real free tier: ten uptime monitors at five-minute intervals, plus single allowances of its page speed, domain and SSL products. Pingdom has no free tier at all, only a 30-day trial, and then usage-based pricing where uptime checks, transaction checks and RUM pageviews each sit on their own ladder. Both geo-localize prices, so we describe shapes rather than numbers; check their pricing pages for your currency.
What each does well
Pingdom is the fuller experience suite: scripted browser transactions, real user monitoring with 13-month retention, roughly a hundred probe locations, and unlimited users on every plan. StatusCake covers more protocols for the money: HTTP, HEAD, TCP, DNS, SMTP, SSH, ping and push heartbeats, with SSL, domain-expiry and basic Linux server monitoring bundled into the same plans, and one-minute checks arriving on its first paid tier.
The status page catch
Read this before picking either for a customer-facing status page. Pingdom includes public status pages in its plans. StatusCake sells status pages as a separate product with its own tiers, capped by page count and subscriber count, billed on top of monitoring. If the status page is the point, that add-on can cost more than the monitoring beside it.
Where Uptimepage fits
Uptimepage does not do browser transactions or RUM, and says so plainly. What it does is pair the monitoring with the status page in one product and one price: HTTP, TCP, DNS, TLS, ping and domain checks every 60 seconds on the free tier, a branded status page with confirmed email and webhook subscribers included, incidents that open automatically, and a Terraform provider, REST API and MCP server for teams who keep config in code. It is also open source under AGPL, so self-hosting is an exit, not a hostage negotiation.