StatusCake alternative
The StatusCake alternative
that checks every minute, free.
StatusCake Free covers 3 monitors, checked every 15 minutes. One-minute checks start on Superior at £14.99 a month. PULSX checks 20 monitors every minute for free.
Why teams switch
from StatusCake.
1-minute checks for everyone
On StatusCake Free a check runs every 15 minutes, so an outage can last a quarter of an hour before anyone is told. PULSX checks every 60 seconds on every monitor, and tries again before it alerts.
Status pages in the same product
StatusCake sells status pages as a separate product, from £11.95 a month for 1 page. PULSX status pages come with the free plan, with themes, announcements and email subscribers.
Room for the whole team
StatusCake Free is a single login, and Superior has 2 team members. Every PULSX team has 25 seats with roles, on-call rotations and an audit log.
PULSX and StatusCake,
side by side.
| Feature | PULSX Free | StatusCake Superior £14.99/mo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | £14.99/mo, or £12.49 billed yearly |
| Uptime monitors | 20 per account, packs of 10 after | 100 |
| Check interval | 1 minute | 1 minute |
| SSL monitoring | On every HTTPS monitor | 50 SSL monitors |
| Public status pages | Yes | Separate product, from £11.95/mo |
| Team members | 25 | 2 |
| On-call and postmortems | Yes | Not listed on their plans |
| Domain expiry monitoring | No | 50 domain monitors |
| Page speed monitoring | No | 15 page speed monitors |
| SMS alerts | No | 75 credits a month |
The StatusCake column is Superior, its cheapest plan with 1-minute checks. Its free plan has 3 uptime monitors at a 15-minute interval and a single login.
What StatusCake costs
as you grow.
| Plan | Price | Monitors | Fastest check |
|---|---|---|---|
| StatusCake Free Single login. SSL, domain and page speed monitors are not included | £0 | 3 | 15 minutes |
| StatusCake Superior 2 team members, 50 SSL and 50 domain monitors, 75 SMS credits | £14.99/mo, or £12.49 billed yearly | 100 | 1 minute |
| StatusCake Business 10 team members, 100 SSL and 120 domain monitors, 400 SMS credits | £49.99/mo, or £41.66 billed yearly | 300 | 30 seconds |
| PULSX Every feature, no card | Free | 20 | 1 minute |
| PULSX with 3 packs Same features, more monitors | £8.50/mo | 50 | 1 minute |
| PULSX with 8 packs Same features, more monitors | £19.50/mo | 100 | 1 minute |
StatusCake prices are from their pricing page, read on 12 October 2026. Prices change and can differ by country, so check theirs before you decide. StatusCake showed us prices in pounds. Status pages are priced separately: £11.95 a month for 1 page, £39.95 for 5. PULSX prices are in pounds; euro and dollar prices are on our pricing page.
What is different day to day
How fast you hear about an outage
This is the largest difference on the free plans. StatusCake Free checks every 15 minutes. PULSX checks every 60 seconds. A site that goes down one minute after a check is found after about 1 minute on PULSX and after about 14 minutes on StatusCake Free.
How many sites you can watch for nothing
StatusCake Free has 3 uptime monitors. PULSX has 20 per account. StatusCake Superior has far more than either at 100, so if you watch dozens of sites and are happy to pay £14.99 a month, its paid plan is good value per monitor.
Status pages
StatusCake Pages is its own product with its own bill: Bronze is £11.95 a month for 1 page and 300 subscribers. PULSX status pages are part of the free plan, and you can make as many as you need, with email subscribers and announcements. PULSX does not serve a status page on your own domain.
What StatusCake has that PULSX does not
On its paid plans StatusCake monitors domain expiry and page speed, has a server monitoring agent, checks every 30 seconds on Business, and includes SMS credits. PULSX has none of those. PULSX tracks SSL certificate expiry on every HTTPS monitor, and alerts by email, Slack, Discord, webhook and Android push.
Working as a team
StatusCake lists a single login on Free, 2 team members on Superior and 10 on Business. PULSX gives every team 25 seats with roles, plus on-call rotations with escalation, incidents with postmortems and an audit log, all on the free plan.
Stay or switch,
an honest split.
Stay with StatusCake if
- You watch more than 50 sites and Superior at £14.99 a month suits your budget.
- You rely on domain expiry, page speed or server monitoring.
- You need 30-second checks, or alerts by text message.
Switch to PULSX if
- You are on StatusCake Free and 15 minutes is too slow.
- You need more than 3 monitors without paying.
- You want a status page without a second subscription.
- More than 2 people need to sign in, or you want on-call rotations.
Move over
in an afternoon.
01
Create a PULSX account
Free, with no card. You are in a team workspace straight away.
02
Add your tests as monitors
Paste the URLs from StatusCake, choose a 1-minute interval and the status codes you expect.
03
Run both, then switch
Connect your alert channels, send a test alert, compare the two for a week, then pause the StatusCake tests.
Questions
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How long does switching take?+
Check every minute, not every 15.
20 monitors, 1-minute checks, SSL tracking and status pages. Free, with no card.