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.

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 2026-06-14 · 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 2026-06-14) · 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

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