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 vendor's own page and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Price: Checkly $0/mo vs StatusCake $0/mo — Checkly is cheaper to start.
- Free tier: Checkly Yes; StatusCake Yes.
- HIPAA: Checkly —; StatusCake —.
Side by side
| Checkly | StatusCake | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $0/mo (Hobby) | $0/mo (Free) |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA (BAA) | — | — |
| SOC 2 | Yes | — |
| GDPR | Yes | — |
| Best for | Engineering teams that treat monitoring as code alongside application deployments | Small teams wanting broad monitor type coverage (uptime + SSL + domain + server) on one plan |
Sources — Checkly: checklyhq.com (verified 2026-06-14). StatusCake: statuscake.com (verified 2026-06-14).
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