Alternatives
A StatusCake alternative for web agencies
StatusCake is a website monitoring service with uptime, page speed, domain and SSL monitors. Pingtier is uptime and TLS certificate monitoring for web agencies and MSPs that look after many client websites. This page compares the two. StatusCake facts come from StatusCake's own public pages, as of November 2026 (checked 2026-11-08).
Pingtier opens as a free beta soon. Sign-up is not open yet.
Who each tool fits
StatusCake can fit you better if you need:
- Page speed monitors and domain monitors next to uptime.
- Checks from many countries. Its homepage says 30 countries.
- Status pages, which StatusCake sells as a separate product.
- Reporting and white label reporting, which its pricing page lists.
- Alerts by SMS, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty, webhooks and more.
- Invoices in USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, NZD, SGD or CAD.
Pingtier can fit you better if you:
- Look after websites for clients and want monitors grouped per client.
- Want to pay per client, not per monitor tier.
- Want an outage counted only when probes on two different providers agree.
- Use bot protection, and want a Blocked status instead of a false Down alert.
- Want one daily email about certificates that expire soon.
Pingtier has no status pages, reports, white label, domain monitoring, SMS or public API.
Pingtier and StatusCake compared
StatusCake facts are as of November 2026 (checked 2026-11-08). Each StatusCake cell links its source. StatusCake's pages showed EUR prices to our check, and these may depend on the visitor's location. Pingtier facts describe the beta.
| Pingtier | StatusCake | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 3 clients, 5 monitors each, 15 per organisation, checks every 3 minutes, one user | 10 uptime monitors at a 5-minute interval, 1 page speed monitor, 1 domain monitor, 1 SSL monitor (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Paid price | Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT. | Superior: EUR 16.66/month billed annually or EUR 19.99 monthly, 100 uptime monitors. Business: EUR 58.33/month annually or EUR 69.99 monthly, 300 uptime monitors. Enterprise custom (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Fastest check interval | Every 3 minutes on the free plan. Every 30 seconds on the paid plan, after beta | Free 5 minutes, Superior 1 minute, Business 30 seconds. Enterprise lists a Constant Check Rate (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Check locations | 8 IPv4 probes on 4 providers in Europe, the US and Asia | 30 countries (homepage). Over 200 monitoring servers (knowledge base), both checked 2026-11-08 |
| Choosing locations | Each monitor selects its regions: EU, US, Asia. All are selected by default, on every plan | Only paid accounts can assign monitoring regions. A region usually matches a city and has at least 4 servers (knowledge base, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Outage confirmation | Down needs failures from at least 2 probes on different providers | 0 to 3 confirmation tests from other servers in the same region, default 2, on free and paid plans (knowledge base, checked 2026-11-08) |
| When a firewall or bot protection blocks checks | Blocked status, with the probe IP addresses and User-Agent to allow. No Down alert | The knowledge base names blocking firewalls as the most common cause of unexpected alerts and advises allowlisting StatusCake IPs (knowledge base, checked 2026-11-08) |
| SSL monitoring | Part of each HTTPS monitor. Notices at 30, 14 and 7 days in one daily digest at 08:00 your time. An SSL issue opens at 14 days or less | SSL monitors: 1 / 50 / 100 on Free / Superior / Business, tested every 24 hours / 30 minutes / 10 minutes (pricing). Expiry alerts at three day values you set (Terraform guide), both checked 2026-11-08 |
| Domain monitoring | Not offered | Domain monitors: 1 / 50 / 120 on Free / Superior / Business (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Alert channels | Slack and email, for Down and for recovery | Integrations such as Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, Telegram, PagerDuty, Datadog, webhooks, plus SMS (notifications, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Status pages | Not offered | StatusCake Pages, a separate product, from EUR 11.63/month billed annually for 1 page (status page, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Team | One user on the free plan. The team comes with the paid plan, after beta. Roles: Owner, Admin, Technician | Team management with Read or Read & Write permissions on Superior, Business and higher (knowledge base). Team Members: 1 on Superior, 9 on Business (pricing), both checked 2026-11-08 |
Prices and features change. Check the linked pages for current details.
What Pingtier does for agencies
- Clients first. You add a client, then its hostnames. Add one hostname or paste a list.
- One price per client. Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT. The paid plan allows up to 10 enabled monitors per client.
- Checks. HTTP(S) status, keyword, response time (shown as charts) and TLS certificate (expiry, chain, hostname).
- A Today list. Down, Blocked and SSL issues appear in one list. You can acknowledge, assign and snooze them. You resolve a Down issue by hand. Blocked and SSL issues close by themselves.
- Client message drafts. Each incident has a draft for the client. Use Copy, Open in email or Mark as told. Pingtier never sends anything to your clients.
- Your time zone. Times show in your organisation's time, with the zone.
Read more about SSL certificate expiry monitoring and pricing.
Moving from StatusCake
- List the uptime and SSL checks you have today.
- Group the sites by client.
- In Pingtier, add each client and paste its hostnames. The TLS certificate check runs on each HTTPS monitor, so you need no separate SSL monitor.
- Connect Slack, or use the email alerts.
- Allow the Pingtier probes in your bot protection. How Pingtier checks lists the IP addresses and the User-Agent.
How Pingtier confirms an outage
One failed check does not send an alert. Pingtier asks up to 3 more probes, each on a different provider, to check the site. It opens a Down incident only when at least 2 probes on different providers see the failure. Then it sends the Slack and email alert at once. It sends another alert when the site recovers.
Pingtier runs 8 IPv4 probes on 4 providers: 4 in Europe (Lithuania, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands), 2 in the US (east and west) and 2 in Asia (Singapore and Tokyo). Each region has probes on at least 2 providers. If a site blocks visitors from a region, unselect that region for its monitor. The incident shows the result per region.
If bot protection answers every probe with a challenge, the monitor shows Blocked. Pingtier sends one email with the probe IP addresses and the User-Agent to allow. It does not open a Down incident.
Read the details on outage confirmation. Also compare Pingtier with UptimeRobot.
Start free beta
Pingtier opens as a free beta soon. Sign-up is not open yet.
Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT.
FAQ
Can I sign up for Pingtier today? Not yet. Sign-up opens soon. The Start free beta button takes you to a page that says when sign-up opens.
Do I need a separate SSL monitor in Pingtier? No. Each HTTPS monitor checks the TLS certificate: expiry, chain and hostname.
Does Pingtier have page speed or domain monitoring? No. Pingtier measures response time and shows it as charts. It does not monitor domain expiry.
When did you check the StatusCake facts? We checked StatusCake's public pages on 2026-11-08. Prices and features can change, so check the linked pages for current details.