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Fettle vs StatusCake
StatusCake bundles page-speed, domain and SSL monitors into one plan; Fettle checks every region before an incident opens. Here is the trade-off.
Choose StatusCake if
- 100 monitors for $20.41 a month billed annually, with 15 page-speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL and 3 server monitors bundled in at that same price
- a network of 43 locations in 30 countries, published on their own locations page
- SMS credits included on the paid plans — 75 a month on Superior, 400 a month on Business
Choose Fettle if
- heartbeat and cron monitoring at 20 / 50 / 150 monitors (Plus / Pro / Max), where StatusCake's pricing and feature pages mention neither
- 30-second checks at $31 a month billed annually, against $66.66 for StatusCake's cheapest 30-second plan
- an MCP server on every plan, including free, which lets an AI agent set up and manage monitoring on your behalf
Fettle and StatusCake, side by side
| Metric | Fettle | StatusCake |
|---|---|---|
| 50 monitors, $/mo billed yearly | $7Plus, billed yearly — 50 monitors | $20.41Superior, billed annually, which covers 100 monitors; $24.49 billed monthly |
| Shortest interval on that plan | 60 secondsPlus and Pro; 30 seconds on Max | 60 secondson Superior |
| Cheapest plan with 30-second checks | $31Max, billed yearly — 300 monitors | Business, $66.66300 monitors, billed annually; $79.99 billed monthly |
| Check model | Fan-outevery selected region checks the monitor every interval | Rotationwhen no region is pinned, a server is picked at random from any monitoring region for the initial test; confirmation tests come from other servers in that same region |
| Location pool | 3eu-central, us-east, ap-southeast | 43 locations in 30 countriesStatusCake print the count themselves, and repeat it in their monitoring FAQ |
| Locations used per interval | 2 on Plus, 3 on Pro and Maxevery selected region must fail before an incident opens — unanimity, not majority — confirmed over 2 consecutive check cycles by default | 1the confirmation test stays inside the region that ran the initial test |
| Status pages | 1 / 3 / 10Plus / Pro / Max | Not publishedthe pricing grid prints no count; the product does have status pages |
| Heartbeat / cron monitoring | 20 / 50 / 150Plus / Pro / Max; 3 on the free plan | Not publishedtheir pricing grid says nothing about heartbeat or cron monitoring either way |
| Integrations | 5 typesemail, Telegram, webhook, Slack, Discord | 15+ |
| REST API | On every plan, including free30 to 300 requests per minute by tier | Yesdocumented; which plans include it is not printed |
| History retention | 90 / 180 / 365 daysPlus / Pro / Max | Not published |
What Superior buys beyond uptime
StatusCake's Superior plan is $20.41 a month billed annually ($24.49 billed monthly) and covers 100 monitors at a 60-second floor. That same plan also bundles in monitor types beyond plain uptime checks: 15 page-speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL and 3 server monitors, plus 75 free SMS credits a month. Their Business plan, the one that unlocks 30-second checks at $66.66 a month billed annually ($79.99 monthly) for 300 monitors, scales those same bundled allowances to 30 page-speed, 120 domain, 100 SSL and 10 server monitors and 400 SMS credits. Fettle's Pro plan, at $15 a month billed annually for 100 monitors, covers HTTP, ping, TCP, DNS and SSL checks plus heartbeat and cron monitoring — it doesn't bundle page-speed or server-resource monitoring, or SMS credits, the way StatusCake's price already does.
The heartbeat and cron gap
StatusCake's pricing grid and feature list mention several specific monitor types by name — page-speed, domain, SSL, server — but their pricing grid says nothing about heartbeat or cron monitoring either way. That is an absence of evidence, not a published absence: we could not find the fact, so we do not print that StatusCake lacks heartbeat or cron-job monitoring, only that their published material does not mention it either way. Fettle's side of that is unambiguous, because it is a plan limit rather than a silence: 20 / 50 / 150 heartbeats on Plus, Pro and Max respectively, plus 3 on the free plan, for pinging in scheduled and cron-style jobs rather than polling them from outside.
Rotation versus unanimity
The two products also differ in how a check gets confirmed. StatusCake's model is rotation: when no region is pinned, a server is picked at random from any monitoring region for the initial test; confirmation tests come from other servers in that same region. Fettle's model is fan-out with unanimity instead of rotation: every selected region must fail before an incident opens — unanimity, not majority — confirmed over 2 consecutive check cycles by default. The interesting difference isn't how many locations either vendor operates — StatusCake publish a location network of 43 locations in 30 countries, and comparing that count to our own would be a coverage argument, not a check-model one — it's that a StatusCake confirmation retry stays inside the same region the initial check ran from, while a Fettle confirmation cycle requires every one of the monitor's selected regions to agree before an incident opens.
Questions
- How much does StatusCake charge for 100 monitors?
- $20.41 a month billed annually on their Superior plan ($24.49 billed monthly), which also bundles in 15 page-speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL and 3 server monitors, plus 75 SMS credits a month. Fettle's Pro plan is $15 a month billed annually for 100 monitors, without those extra monitor types bundled in.
- Does StatusCake check as often as every 30 seconds?
- Yes, on their Business plan: $66.66 a month billed annually ($79.99 monthly) for 300 monitors. Fettle's 30-second floor sits on Max, at $31 a month billed annually for 300 monitors.
- Does StatusCake offer heartbeat or cron-job monitoring?
- Not stated: their pricing grid says nothing about heartbeat or cron monitoring either way. That is an absence of evidence, not a published absence, so we don't claim they lack it. Fettle includes heartbeat and cron monitoring on every paid plan — 20 / 50 / 150 monitors on Plus, Pro and Max respectively.
Prices verified on 2026-08-25 against StatusCake's public pricing page. Vendors change prices; check theirs before deciding — StatusCake pricing.
Try Fettle free
The free plan monitors 20 endpoints from 2 regions and emails you when one breaks — no card. See pricing for the paid intervals, or compare every tool side by side.