Best Uptime Monitoring · head-to-head

Checkly vs StatusCake

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for uptime monitoring. Checkly has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.

Checkly has the lower entry price — Checkly starts at $0/mo, StatusCake at $0/mo. Free tier: Checkly Yes, StatusCake Yes. HIPAA: Checkly —, StatusCake —.

As of 2026-09-03 · figures link to their source below

Side by side

Checkly

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Hobby)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forEngineering teams that treat monitoring as code alongside application deployments

StatusCake

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)
SOC 2
GDPR
Best forSmall teams wanting broad monitor type coverage (uptime + SSL + domain + server) on one plan

Sources — Checkly: checklyhq.com (verified 2026-09-03) · StatusCake: statuscake.com (verified 2026-09-03)

Key features

Checkly: Monitoring-as-Code: define checks in JavaScript/TypeScript via Checkly CLI and deploy through CI/CD; Playwright-powered browser checks for realistic multi-step user flow testing; Terraform and Pulumi providers for IaC-driven monitor management; Visual regression testing (Starter and above); SOC 2 Type II certified; AES-256 encryption at rest, HTTPS in transit

StatusCake: HTTP, HEAD, TCP, DNS, SMTP, SSH, PING, and PUSH uptime monitoring protocols; Page speed monitoring from multiple global locations; Server monitoring: CPU, RAM, and disk usage alerts; SSL certificate expiry and domain expiry monitoring; 30+ global monitoring locations with 30-second check intervals

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