StatusCake vs UptimeEZ
A long-standing checker with a small free tier
Every fact below was read from their own pages on 2026-08-03. Where their page does not mention something, we write "not announced" rather than "cannot do it".
What StatusCake is
StatusCake is a long-established hosted checker with an unusually complete free plan: 10 tests at a five minute interval, plus one SSL monitor and one domain monitor, which most free tiers leave out. Beyond uptime it also watches page speed and server resources from the same account, so it covers more ground than a pure checker. It is the right choice if you want certificate and domain expiry watched for free alongside your uptime tests, or if a saturated server matters to you as much as the page it serves. What it does is confirm that the server answered: its pricing page does not announce content or keyword matching, the tier sets the number of tests, and the cheapest paid tier is 16.66 EUR a month billed annually.
Side by side
UptimeEZ takes 11 of the criteria below, StatusCake takes 2, and 1 are a draw. We chose the criteria, so read the row that matters to you rather than the score.
| What you might need | StatusCake | UptimeEZ |
|---|---|---|
| Free hosted tier | Advantage: StatusCake. 10 tests at 5 minutes, 1 SSL, 1 domain | None. The self-hosted engine is free forever |
| Cheapest paid plan | 16.66 EUR a month annually, 19.99 EUR monthly | Advantage: UptimeEZ. 9.90 EUR a month, no commitment |
| SSL and domain expiry | Yes, on every tier | Yes, plus published vulnerabilities |
| Content or keyword matching | Not announced on the pricing page | Advantage: UptimeEZ. Yes, plus a forbidden string |
| Page speed and server monitoring | Advantage: StatusCake. Yes, in the same account | Page speed yes, server resources no |
| Reads the rendered layout | Not announced | Advantage: UptimeEZ. Nine signals and a silhouette |
| Finds a database error inside a 200 | Not announced | Advantage: UptimeEZ. Forty-one signatures, no setup |
| Tells you what to fix | The test result | Advantage: UptimeEZ. One of twenty-six causes, with the remedy |
| Runs on your own server | No, hosted only | Advantage: UptimeEZ. Yes, MIT licensed, or hosted by us |
| Source code you can read | Closed | Advantage: UptimeEZ. MIT, the whole engine |
| Unlimited monitors and sites | No, the tier sets the number | Advantage: UptimeEZ. Yes, the hosted plan does not count them |
| Where the measurements are stored | Not announced on the pricing page | Advantage: UptimeEZ. Dedicated OVH server in France, one database per customer |
| Interface languages | English | Advantage: UptimeEZ. Ten, including the client report |
| Leaving with your history | Not announced | Advantage: UptimeEZ. Exportable, and the instance is deleted on request |
advantage UptimeEZ advantage StatusCake no tint: too close to call
What we read on their own pages
What StatusCake does well
- A free tier of 10 tests, 1 SSL monitor and 1 domain monitor
- SSL and domain expiry on every tier, the free one included
- Page speed and server resources in the same account
- Years in the market
Limits, as their pages state them
- The cheapest paid plan is 16.66 EUR a month, billed annually
- Content or keyword matching: not announced on the pricing page
- The tier sets the number of tests
- Hosted only: no self-hosted install
- Closed source: you cannot read the code that runs the tests
Both lists are facts read on their own pages on 2026-08-03, never our opinion of the product.
Where UptimeEZ is better
Their free tier already watches the certificate, the domain and the load on the server, which is more than most free tiers do. What their pricing page never mentions is the content of the answer. Here an expected string and a forbidden one are matched on every pass, nine layout signals are weighed over the rendered page, and forty-one signatures are read for a database or application error printed inside a 200. The published advisories of the components it inventories are tracked as well, which is the other half of watching a certificate.
Countable in the engine source, which is public and MIT: src/Check/Css.php for the nine layout signals, src/Check/Database.php for the forty-one error signatures, src/Vuln.php for the published advisories.
Where StatusCake is better
Years in the market, page speed and server monitoring in the same account, and a free tier that includes SSL and domain checks where many do not. They also watch server resources, which we do not do at all.
Source: https://www.statuscake.com/pricing/, read on 2026-08-03. Ours is open to the same reading: github.com/coeurduweb/uptimeez. Found a mistake? Tell us and we will correct it: we would rather be right than flattering. support@uptimeez.com.
Questions we are asked about StatusCake
StatusCake's entry plan is 16.66 EUR a month billed annually. What am I actually signing?
A year, paid as a year: 16.66 EUR a month billed annually is close to 200 EUR committed before you know whether the tool answers your question. Their free tier is complete enough to test with first, which softens it. The UptimeEZ hosted plan is 9.90 EUR a month with no commitment, and the engine is MIT, so the other way to evaluate it is to install it and stop whenever you like.
The site is slow and I suspect the server rather than the site. Does StatusCake or UptimeEZ show me that?
StatusCake. It watches server resources and page speed in the same account as the uptime tests, and UptimeEZ does not watch server resources at all: it reads the page that comes back, not the machine that sent it. If your recurring problem is a shared host running out of memory at nine in the morning, that is their column and not ours.
Their pricing page says nothing about keyword matching. Does that mean StatusCake cannot do it?
No, and the difference matters enough that we write it as we read it. Every cell on this page comes from their own pages on 2026-07-29, and where a page is silent we write not announced instead of cannot do it, because a pricing page is a sales document and not a feature list. If keyword matching is what decides your choice, ask them, then tell us what they answered so we can correct the line.
StatusCake's free plan includes one SSL and one domain monitor. Is that enough for an agency?
Not past the first client. One certificate and one domain is one site watched for expiry, while the ten free tests cover ten sites for uptime; above that, the tier decides how many tests you get. UptimeEZ watches the certificate and the domain expiry of every site it monitors, and adds the published vulnerabilities of the components it finds there, with no separate count for either.
We pay StatusCake for uptime and another tool for page speed. Does UptimeEZ replace both?
The page speed half, yes, and it names the files that block the render rather than only scoring the page. The server resource half, no, and StatusCake keeps that one. So one of your two tools goes and the other may not, which is a smaller answer than you were hoping for and it is the true one. Count the screens you actually open each week before you move anything.
Out of these five questions, StatusCake is the answer to 1 of them rather than UptimeEZ. A comparison that wins every question is not one you should believe, and you have already used one of these tools.
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