StatOSS compared with StatusCake
StatusCake sells uptime, page speed, domain, SSL and server monitoring from free, and status pages on their own plans from $12.46 a month billed yearly. StatOSS sells monitoring with the status page built in, from free, with an open source core.
Northwind is up.
All 2 monitors are responding, 5 failed checks in the last 24 hours.
API
Up for 6 h 51 min99.65% passed
1,438 checks, median 204 ms, 5 timeouts
95% under 299 ms
- Timed out5 min, 5 checks
Website
Up for 23 h 58 min100% passed
1,438 checks, median 137 ms, all passed
95% under 199 ms
Side by side
| StatOSS | StatusCake | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1 page, 1 monitor, checks every 5 minutes, 7 days of history, email alerts | 3 uptime monitors, HTTP(S) only, checks every 15 minutes, alerts to 1 email address, a single login for personal use |
| Cheapest paid plan | Hobby $4 a month: 10 monitors, every minute, 90 days. Pro $15: 100 monitors across 10 pages, a year, your own domain | Superior, $24.49 a month or $20.41 billed yearly: 100 uptime monitors, 1-minute checks, a choice of test locations, 15 page speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL and 3 server monitors, 75 SMS credits |
| People | Pro includes 3 people, $5 a month for each one after | 1 login on Free, 2 team members on Superior, 10 on Business at $79.99 a month, unlimited on custom plans |
| Check locations | Aarhus and Copenhagen in Denmark, Falkenstein in Germany, Ashburn in the USA, Singapore, and Sydney in Australia, the regions in turn, with every failure checked again from every region | 43 locations in 30 countries, Sydney, Johannesburg and São Paulo among them; choosing the locations is on paid plans |
| Status page | Up to 10 pages on Pro, your own domain with the certificate handled, a password or a private page, subscribers | StatusCake Pages, its own plans: Bronze $14.95 a month or $12.46 billed yearly for 1 page and 300 email subscribers; SMS subscribers, a password and no branding from Silver, $49.95 a month |
| Monitor types | HTTP with keyword, TCP, DNS, ping, certificate, domain expiry, heartbeat, component | HTTP(S), HEAD, DNS, ping, TCP, SMTP, SSH and push on paid plans; page speed, domain, SSL and server monitoring |
| Alerts | Email on every plan; Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Pushover, ntfy and a signed webhook on Hobby and Pro. No SMS | Email on every plan; Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Mattermost, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, VictorOps, Datadog, Pushover, Pushbullet, webhooks, phone calls and SMS on paid plans |
| Open source | The core is MIT licensed and runs on your own box | No |
Facts about the other product were read from its own site on 4 October 2026. Prices and limits change; check theirs before deciding, and tell [email protected] if something here is out of date.
What StatOSS does differently
Most uptime pages show a row of green squares, one per day, and a percentage. A five-minute outage at 3 a.m. becomes a square that is still green and a figure that still says 99.99%. StatOSS draws a strip per monitor where every bar is one check, its height the response time, amber for a timeout and red for any other failure, and groups the failed checks into entries with the time and the reason. The mark stays visible for the whole range. A customer who was refused at 3 a.m. finds the moment on the page, and so do you.
Before a failure counts, a second server on another network repeats the check, and only a failure both see goes on the record; two of those in a row make an outage. The response time of every check is kept, and a slow threshold turns a sluggish service into its own state with its own alert. The core is open source under MIT, so the page you get from the hosted service is the page you can run yourself.
When StatusCake is the better pick
If you need 30-second checks, checks from Africa or South America, SMS or phone calls, or SMTP and SSH tests, StatusCake has them and StatOSS does not. Superior holds 100 uptime monitors for $24.49 a month; StatOSS Hobby holds 10 for $4. It also watches page speed and server CPU, memory and disk, which StatOSS does not, and its free tier holds three monitors to our one.
Where StatOSS fits: the status page comes with the monitoring. On StatusCake, Pages is a second plan, from $12.46 a month billed yearly for 1 page and 300 subscribers. At 100 monitors and 5 pages, StatusCake Superior and Pages Silver are $24.49 and $49.95 a month; StatOSS Pro is $15 for 100 monitors across 10 pages on your own domains, with 1,000 subscribers each. Every failure is checked again from every region, and the core is yours to run.
Moving over
StatusCake's Export Settings button on the uptime test overview downloads every test as a semicolon-separated CSV. The import reads its WebsiteName, TestType and Port columns, but none of the columns StatusCake lists is headed URL, so add one with each test's address before pasting. HTTP, ping and TCP tests come over as they are; the import reads any other TestType, DNS, HEAD, SMTP, SSH or push, as HTTP, so leave those rows out and set them up by hand (a push test becomes a heartbeat with a new ping URL). The import page has the steps. Your history does not come with it; the strips fill from the first check.