Who each tool is for
StatusCake
People who want a free plan and a wide set of monitor types (uptime, page speed, SSL, domain, server) at a published price, with 30-second checks on the top self-serve plan.
Beamfar
Web agencies and freelancers who want incidents explained by what changed just before, SEO regressions caught, and one monthly report per client. Individuals in the EU can buy it for their own sites too; individual plans are available in the EU for now.
Side by side
The Beamfar column describes what is built today. The StatusCake column is what its own pages say, read on 2026-10-28; where a page did not say, the cell says so.
| Topic | Beamfar | StatusCake | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Prices, from €19 to €249 a month, excluding VAT. Nothing can be bought yet. Plan limits: 10, 40, 100 or 200 client sites; 1 on the Free plan a trial ends into. | Per month, in $: Superior $24.49, or $20.41 a month billed yearly ($244.92 a year); Business $79.99, or $66.66 a month billed yearly ($799.92 a year). Free is $0. Enterprise is by quote (read 2026-11-02). | StatusCake pricing |
| Trial | 14 days, no card, one per organisation. | 7-day free trial with any plan, no card required. | StatusCake pricing |
| Check interval | Every minute on Solo; every 30 seconds possible on Team and up (a choice per check); every 5 minutes on the Free plan; always from every enabled region. | Free 5 to 15 minutes (depending on the page version we saw), Superior 1 minute, Business 30 seconds. | StatusCake pricing |
| How a site is called down | Two regions must agree. One region failing is a regional issue with no alert. Each alert lists what each region saw. | Not described on the pages we read. The home page says “We’ll alert you when your website goes down” and does not say how a failure is verified. | StatusCake home page |
| What changed before an incident | DNS records, the certificate, the final redirect URL and SEO signals are recorded on a timeline and marked when an incident follows within the next hour. | Domain, SSL and server monitors are listed. A timeline that attaches changes to an incident is not described. | StatusCake pricing |
| SEO-risk alerts | Alert when a page becomes noindex, robots.txt starts blocking it, or its canonical moves to another host. | Not listed on the pages we read. | StatusCake pricing |
| Other checks | Page, certificate, DNS, API and slowdown checks; TCP port, ping (TCP reachability, not ICMP), DNS blocklist and heartbeat (cron) monitors; and a plan-limited daily or weekly crawl for broken pages and links, mixed content and the sitemap. No Lighthouse or browser performance audits. | Page speed, domain, SSL and server monitors. Superior: 100 uptime, 15 page speed, 50 domain, 50 SSL and 3 server monitors; Business: 300, 30, 120, 100 and 10. | StatusCake pricing |
| Client reports | One monthly report per client, printable to PDF; your brand on it on the Agency and Agency Plus plans. | White label reporting and editable e-mail alerting are on the Business plan only; Superior and Business list reporting (read 2026-11-02). | StatusCake pricing |
| Status pages | 1, 10, 30 or 60 per plan (Solo, Team, Agency, Agency Plus; 1 on Free). Only confirmed incidents show (two regions for page checks, the ping receiver for scheduled tasks). The client’s own domain is built (a host name you verify with a DNS record, with a certificate) but not yet tested against real DNS and TLS. | StatusCake Pages is mentioned on the pricing page without limits. Its status page product page lists Bronze USD 12.46 and 14.95, Silver USD 41.63 and 49.95, and Gold USD 208.29 and 249.96 a month, with 300, 1,500 and 7,000 subscribers; it does not say which figure belongs to annual billing (read 2026-10-28). | StatusCake status pages |
| People | 1, 2, 10, 25 or 50 per plan (Free, Solo, Team, Agency, Agency Plus). | Free 1 login, Superior 2 team members, Business 10 (read 2026-11-02). | StatusCake pricing |
Where StatusCake is better
- A free plan: its pricing page lists 3 uptime monitors with 15-minute checks, its home page 10 monitors with 5-minute checks (read 2026-11-02); and published prices from the first plan.
- Page speed, server and domain monitors next to uptime, with counts per plan.
- Checks as fast as 30 seconds on the Business plan, and uptime checks from 30 countries with location choice on paid accounts.
- White-label reporting is listed, and it is on sale today. Beamfar’s paid plans open soon.
Where Beamfar is better
- A what-changed timeline attached to each incident: DNS records, certificate, redirects and SEO signals.
- SEO-risk alerts for noindex, robots.txt blocking and a canonical moved to another host, after a second sighting.
- A stated down rule that is easy to explain to a client: two regions must agree, and each alert shows what each region saw.
- No price advantage can be claimed: Beamfar’s paid plans are not on sale yet.
When to choose which
Choose StatusCake when
You want a free plan, page speed or server monitors, 30-second checks or a wide set of monitor types, or you want to buy today.
Choose Beamfar when
Your work is client websites, you care most about incident evidence from two regions, what changed just before and SEO regressions, and you can wait: Beamfar’s paid plans open soon.
Questions
Does StatusCake have a free plan?
Yes. Its pricing page lists 3 uptime monitors with 15-minute checks on the Free plan, and its home page 10 monitors with 5-minute checks, with alerts through integrations (read 2026-11-02).
Does StatusCake confirm downtime from another location?
The pages we read do not say how a failure is verified, so we make no claim. Beamfar calls a site down only when two regions agree.
Can I buy Beamfar today?
No. The 14-day trial is free and needs no card; paid plans open soon, and their prices may change before then.
Sources
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- StatusCake pricing (www.statuscake.com)
- StatusCake home page (www.statuscake.com)
- StatusCake status pages (www.statuscake.com)