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Why teams are switching from StatusCake
Tired of paying for the Business plan just to get fast checks? StatusCake only offers 30-second monitoring on their Business plan at €70/month. Their Superior plan caps you at 1-minute intervals. OnlineOrNot includes 30-second checks on all paid plans, starting at $12/month.
Hit the monitor cap? StatusCake limits you to 10, 100, or 300 monitors depending on your plan. When you outgrow a tier, you jump to the next price point whether you need the other features or not. OnlineOrNot charges $2 per monitor with no artificial caps.
Need cron job monitoring? StatusCake focuses on uptime, page speed, and server monitoring but doesn't offer cron job (heartbeat) monitoring. OnlineOrNot includes it on all plans so you can track your scheduled tasks alongside your uptime checks.
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Why pick OnlineOrNot
over StatusCake?
| Key Features | StatusCake | OnlineOrNot |
|---|---|---|
| Check frequency | 5min (Free), 1min (Superior), 30s (Business) | 3min (Free), 30 seconds (Pro) |
| Pricing model | €0 / €20 / €70 tiers with monitor caps | From $12/mo ($2.40/monitor) |
| Monitor limits | 10 / 100 / 300 depending on plan | Unlimited (pay per monitor) |
| False-alarm verification | Multi-location | Multi-location verification |
| Cron job/scheduled task monitoring | No | Yes |
| Team members | 1 (Superior), 9 (Business) | Unlimited on all plans |
| Custom status pages with branding | Paid add-on | All plans |
| SSL certificate monitoring | Yes | Advanced with expiry tracking |
| Data retention | 1 month | 14 days (Free), 12 months (Pro) |
| Customer support quality | Email (slow response times reported) | Direct founder access |
Faster checks, simpler pricing, no caps
30-second checks from day one. StatusCake reserves fast monitoring for their €70/month Business plan. OnlineOrNot gives you 30-second checks on every paid plan, so you catch outages faster without paying enterprise prices.
No monitor caps to worry about. Add monitors as you grow without watching a counter or planning your next tier upgrade. At $2 per monitor, you know exactly what you'll pay.
Unlimited team members. StatusCake limits you to 1 team member on Superior and 9 on Business. OnlineOrNot includes unlimited team members on all plans because monitoring is a team sport.
Seamless migration from StatusCake:
Export your StatusCake configuration
Send us your current StatusCake monitor list and notification settings. We'll review your setup and create a migration plan.
We handle the complete setup
Our team recreates all your monitors with matching settings, configures your notification channels, and invites your team members.
Faster monitoring with simpler pricing
Within 24 hours, enjoy 30-second monitoring with multi-location verification, plus cron job tracking and branded status pages - all with transparent per-monitor pricing.
Trusted by software teams worldwide
OnlineOrNot is built for scale and runs millions of uptime checks every week. Thousands of software teams, including some of the world's leading brands have already made the switch from other uptime monitors.
- Uptime Checks last week
- 15.6M
- Users
- 6,099
- Detected incidents last week
- 1,632
OnlineOrNot has been absolutely fantastic for my bot, Noti. It completely transformed the way I monitor online services.
The real-time notifications keep me in the loop about any downtime, allowing me to take immediate action. If you're looking for a reliable way to monitor your project's status, I highly suggest using OnlineOrNot.
Adam HMaker of Noti
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I tried @RozenMD's OnlineOrNot uptime monitoring, and for a few days got notifications of 2min down time.
I thought that OnlineOrNot was wrong as Uptime Robot wasn't reporting anything.
Turns out it was the other way around.
Khaled BentoumiFounder of Data to Page
We've been using OnlineOrNot and it has been a life saver.
It, by far, has been one of the most responsive uptime services we've tried and it only gets better and better as time goes on.
Alex BowlesFounder of Casterlabs
I just set up some site aliveness checks for @Archium_io with @RozenMD's OnlineOrNot.
Took me less than five minutes and it was completely self-explanatory, not to mention gorgeous. Seriously good experience.
Great job, Max! 👏👏
Graham LeaFounder of Archium.io
OnlineOrNot by @RozenMD is all one needs
It is easy to set up and very reliable. I have been using it for almost an year now.
Rajat SaxenaFounder of CourseLit
I'm using OnlineOrNot to monitor my @cloakist customers' sites, so I can respond quickly if they stop working
Love it. Super clean interface, very intuitive. Particularly impressed at how it can wait for full page load
Thanks @RozenMD for making this awesome tool!
Louis BarclayFounder of Cloakist
OnlineOrNot does the job for me.
Charles MillerSoftware Architect at Atlassian
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Incidents happen.
Get alerted immediately.
OnlineOrNot detects problems and lets your team know before your customers do.
- Reliable alerts where you need them:
- SMS
- Slack/Discord
- Microsoft Teams
- Incident.io/PagerDuty/OpsGenie/Grafana OnCall/Spike
- Webhooks
30-second setup.
Simple to setup,
yet deeply configurable.
You don't have to be an engineer to set it up.
Simple and effective monitoring that lets you sleep a bit better at night.
Also, I just want to thank you for your responsiveness and help.
This is the best uptime monitoring we have seen so far and saved us a ton of time building our own version.
— Engineering manager, SaaS company
- Super-fast checks.
- Check as often as every 30 seconds, and catch the issues that take your website down for less than a minute.
- Configurable HTTP requests.
- You can configure the HTTP method, headers, and body for each check.
- Instant alerts.
- Alerts in the tools you already use: Email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Incident.io, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Grafana OnCall, Spike, and more.
- No false positives.
- OnlineOrNot runs every check at least twice before sending an alert, with options for even more.
- SSL Monitoring.
- OnlineOrNot will check your SSL certificates for expiration and other issues, and alert you if there's a problem.
- Geo-specific & Multi-location Checks.
- You can choose to run uptime checks from one region, or all of them.
Build trust.
Keep your customers informed
Your customers rely on your products and services. Let them know your real-time status with an automatically updating status page.
- Minimize support load.
- Add your customers as subscribers to your status page, and send consistent incident updates via email.
- Private status pages.
- Share internal status updates with your teammates and internal stakeholders with a private status page.
We pitch our website to investors and influencers all the time. If the website is down, we look like amateurs.
We know our website is online before these important meetings thanks to OnlineOrNot.
— early start-up founder
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