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Comparison

Checkly vs StatusCake

On the evidence we track, Checkly leads this comparison with a composite score of 64/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Checkly full profile →StatusCake full profile →
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★Checkly64
StatusCake20
Score
Vioscale score
Checkly64 / 100high · 76%updating
StatusCake20 / 100low · 3%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Checkly✓
StatusCake–
Model
Checklyfreemium
StatusCakecommercial
Price level
Checklylow
StatusCake–
Transparent
Checkly✓
StatusCake–
Integrations
Count
Checkly17
StatusCake4
Security
Soc2
Checkly✓
StatusCake–
Reliability
Status page
Checkly✓
StatusCake–
Market
Availability
ChecklyAvailable worldwide
StatusCake–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api monitoring. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Multi region probes
Checkly-
StatusCake-
Private location agent
Checkly-
StatusCake-
Status page hosting
Checkly-
StatusCake-
Json schema assertions
Checkly-
StatusCake-
Monitoring as code
Checkly-
StatusCake-
Multistep API flows
Checkly-
StatusCake-
Heartbeat deadmans switch
Checkly-
StatusCake-
Self hostable
Checkly-
StatusCake-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Checkly

Leader

A code-first monitoring platform that runs continuous uptime checks, API tests, and browser-based workflows from multiple global locations to detect outages and performance issues. Sends alerts through various channels and supports custom monitoring logic via TypeScript.

Independently observed

StatusCake

Not documented yet.

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Checkly

Leader
from $1.80/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $24/month billed annually. Free tier includes 10 monitors and 1k browser/10k API checks.

  • HobbyFree
    • Uptime monitoring (HTTPS, TCP, DNS, ICMP, Heartbeat)
    • 10 uptime monitors
    • 1,000 browser/Playwright checks per month
    • 10,000 API checks per month
    • 6 global monitoring locations
    • +2 more
  • Starter$24/month billed annually
    • 50 uptime monitors
    • 1-minute check frequency
    • 3,000 browser checks per month
    • 25,000 API checks per month
    • Automatic retry before alerting
    • +3 more
  • Team$64/month billed annually
    • 75 uptime monitors
    • 30-second check frequency
    • 12,000 browser checks per month
    • 100,000 API checks per month
    • 22 global locations
    • +7 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom monitor and check volumes
    • 1-second check frequency
    • 22 global locations with parallel and round-robin scheduling
    • Private locations
    • All alerting channels
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

StatusCake

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Checkly✓
StatusCake–
CLI
Checkly✓
StatusCake–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Checkly✓
StatusCake–
Self-hosted
Checkly✓
StatusCake–
Hybrid
Checkly✓
StatusCake–

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (2)
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes

Checkly

Leader
17 total - 15 not shared
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Incident.io
  • Rootly
  • OpsGenie
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • Vercel
  • Pulumi
  • Webhook
  • Telegram
  • Airflow
  • MCP
Independently observed

StatusCake

4 total - 2 not shared
  • Ansible
  • Autotask
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.