Priced per site. No monitor pools. The StatusCake alternative.
SiteLetter is built for the white-label report you send each client: up to 15 pages of their site checked daily with Lighthouse, a screenshot comparison and a link check.
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Quick verdict
You run servers, or only need uptime
StatusCake watches the server as well as the site, and its uptime checks run on any URL you give them, not only the homepage.
You send each client a report on their site
SiteLetter watches what the client sees: the Lighthouse trend, a deploy that pushed the contact form below the fold, a hero image that went missing on the FAQ page, and the broken links, all in a white-label report.
Run both if you look after the servers as well as the sites: StatusCake on the servers and on any inner page that must be checked every minute, SiteLetter on the monitored pages and the client report. The two overlap only on homepage uptime and expiry dates.
StatusCake pricing, checked
StatusCake prices by account, not by site: each paid plan is a set of capped pools of uptime, page-speed, SSL, domain and server monitors, and each uptime or page-speed monitor watches one URL.
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | 3 uptime monitors, every 15 minutes, for one personal login. No page-speed, SSL, domain or server monitors. |
| Superior | €16.66/mo billed annually, €19.99/mo month to month | 100 uptime monitors, every minute; 15 page-speed, 50 SSL, 50 domain and 3 server monitors. |
| Business | €58.33/mo billed annually, €69.99/mo month to month | 300 uptime monitors, every 30 seconds; 30 page-speed, 100 SSL, 120 domain and 10 server monitors. |
Source: statuscake.com/pricing Euros, as their page showed them to an EU visitor. Above Business, StatusCake lists a Custom plan, priced on application. Read from their pricing page on .
- 10 client sites with every monitor on: $48.00 a month, for up to 150 pages.
- Switch a monitor off for a site and that site costs less. See every rate.
- Prepaid credits, no subscription. If they run out, monitoring stops, and you are warned before it does.
Which is cheaper, and for what
- Uptime on 3 homepages or fewer
- StatusCake: its free plan costs nothing.
- Uptime on more sites
- SiteLetter's Uptime monitor is $0.30 a site a month. StatusCake's Superior plan is €16.66/mo billed annually for up to 100 URLs checked every minute, with SSL and domain checks for 50 sites. A handful of sites: SiteLetter. A long client list: StatusCake.
- The client report
- No StatusCake plan runs Lighthouse or compares screenshots, so there is no price to set against SiteLetter's.
What goes into each client's report
Page Scores
Lighthouse scores out of 100 for Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO, averaged across the monitored pages on mobile and desktop, each with its change since the last report.
Uptime
The uptime percentage for the period, a day-by-day calendar, and the longest incidents, each with its cause in plain words, such as "Site was offline", and how long it lasted.
Visual Changes
How many pages were checked and how many changed, then the top changes, each with a picture of the page, what changed, and a label such as Content update or Possibly broken.
Renewals
The days left on the SSL certificate and the domain, each with its expiry date and its issuer or registrar. Some country registries, such as .de and .at, do not publish a domain's expiry date, and then the report shows the certificate alone.
Content Health
How many links and images were checked, how many are broken and on how many pages, the change since the last report, and how many are not secure, such as links to pages without https.
White-label
Your logo, your brand colour, your reply-to address, and your agency name as the sender, with the SiteLetter name taken off by one toggle, sent from your own domain once you verify it. Once your domain is verified the report can go straight to the client; until then it goes to your team to forward or share by link.
Lighthouse scores you can compare week to week
Lighthouse runs on every monitored page each day, straight after its screenshot has warmed the DNS, TLS and CDN caches. Without that, an audit is partly measuring the state of those caches, and this week's score could not be set against last week's.
A screenshot of every page, compared each day
Every monitored page is screenshotted daily and compared with the last good capture. Changes big enough to matter are boxed on the image, and an AI classifier sorts them into cosmetic noise (a rotating banner), intended updates and breakage (a hero image that stopped loading).
Feature-by-feature comparison
| Feature | SiteLetter | StatusCake |
|---|---|---|
| Price and plan | ||
| How it is priced | Per site per day, drawn from a prepaid balance | Per account: each plan buys capped pools of uptime, page-speed, SSL, domain and server monitors |
| Free plan | No free plan: the signup credit runs one site with every monitor on for 14 days, no card | Yes: 3 uptime monitors at 15-minute intervals |
| History kept | Lighthouse scores, screenshots, link and image checks and reports for 2 years; raw uptime samples for 280 days¹ | By tier: 90 days of overview and 30 of detail at the lowest, up to 6 years and 60 days at the highest² |
| Checks on each client site | ||
| Uptime | Limited: the homepage, every minute; other monitored pages are visited once a day | Yes: any URL, every 15 min on Free, 1 min on Superior, 30 sec on Business |
| Page Scores (Lighthouse) | Yes: every monitored page, daily | No: their page-speed monitor times the load instead |
| Visual Changes (screenshots compared) | Yes: every monitored page, daily | No |
| Content Health (broken links and images) | Yes: every monitored page, daily | No |
| Renewals (SSL and domain expiry) | Yes: both, checked daily | Yes: one SSL and one domain monitor per site |
| Pages picked from the sitemap | Yes: the top 15, from a sitemap refreshed weekly; add the domain and every monitor turns on | No: each monitor watches the URL you give it |
| Servers and other checks | ||
| Server monitoring (RAM, CPU, disk) | Not available | Yes: an installed agent, on Superior and Business |
| Checks beyond HTTP | Not available | Yes: TCP, DNS, SMTP, SSH, PING and PUSH |
| Where checks run from | Limited: one EU probe every minute; a US probe re-checks a failure before an alert fires, and an Asia-Pacific probe settles a disagreement | Yes: 43 locations in 30 countries |
| Client reports | ||
| Scheduled reports | Yes: weekly, every two weeks, monthly or quarterly | Yes: daily, weekly or monthly on Superior and Business, covering uptime, page speed, SSL and domain |
| Report branding, per client | Yes: white-label for each client: your logo, your brand colour, your reply-to address, and your agency name as the sender, with the SiteLetter name taken off by one toggle, sent from your own domain once you verify it | Limited: on Business, White Label covers their public reporting page and emails sent by hand; nothing published for scheduled reports³ |
| Report builder | Yes: drag sections into the order you want | No |
| Alerts and access | ||
| Alert channels | Limited: email and Slack | Yes: email, SMS on paid credits, and 15+ integrations, including Slack, Teams, Discord and PagerDuty |
| Public status page | Not available | Yes: StatusCake Pages |
| Public REST API | Not available | Yes |
| Mobile app | Not available | Yes: iOS and Android |
- ¹ Monitoring data is stored in the EU whichever region did the probing: all the US and Asia-Pacific probes send back is the check's own measurement, meaning up or down, the status code, the response time and any error. No page content, and no account data. One thing does leave the EU. Screenshots go to OpenAI in the US for visual change classification, under EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
- ² StatusCake's retention page names its tiers Bronze, Silver and Gold, not the Free, Superior and Business plans in the pricing table above.
- ³ Their pricing page lists "White Label & Editable Email Alerting" on Business and describes it as: "Remove the StatusCake logo on your public reporting page and replace it with your own. Customise and brand any alerting and reporting emails that you send manually from the StatusCake dashboard." Their email templating page is there to "Brand StatusCake alert emails so your team and affiliates can easily identify that they're from you" (both read ).
Sources: statuscake.com/pricing, features, reporting, email-templating, page-speed FAQ, terms and conditions. All read . A No in the StatusCake column means none of these pages lists it.
Where StatusCake wins
43 probe locations and 30-second checks
A client's site can be checked from near where its visitors are, and on Business every 30 seconds, so a short outage is less likely to slip between two checks.
Server monitoring and checks beyond HTTP
If you host the client sites, StatusCake also watches what a page check cannot see: a disk filling up, a mail server or a port that stops answering, a scheduled job that stops checking in.
Status pages, an API, SMS and mobile apps
A public status page gives a client somewhere to look during an outage, SMS or PagerDuty can wake whoever is on call, and iOS and Android apps and a REST API reach the checks away from the dashboard.
Maintenance windows
A maintenance window pauses alerts during a planned deploy, so nobody is paged for downtime you scheduled. SiteLetter has none: its alerts fire mid-deploy too.
SiteLetter vs StatusCake: FAQ
For uptime on 3 homepages, checked every 15 minutes, it can work, but read clause 4.5 of their terms first: "The Free Account is for your own personal use and it is a breach of the Agreement to share the login credentials with any third party."
Yes, by adding each client's domain once. SiteLetter picks up to 15 pages from its sitemap (ranked by depth, whether the homepage links to them, sitemap priority, and recency), with every monitor switched on, and the thresholds you set once at agency level (uptime, SSL and domain expiry, Lighthouse, broken links and images) apply to every site, so there is no per-monitor setup to rebuild. What does not come across: checks every minute on pages other than the homepage, 30-second intervals, server monitoring and status pages. The signup credit runs one site, so you can move one client first.
For uptime on 3 homepages or fewer, no: StatusCake's free plan costs nothing. For uptime alone on more sites, SiteLetter is cheaper for a handful and StatusCake for a long client list: SiteLetter charges for each site, and Superior one price for up to 100 URLs. For Lighthouse, screenshots compared day to day and a white-label report per client, StatusCake has no plan to compare; SiteLetter is $4.80 a site a month with every monitor on.
Yes, on Superior and Business: daily, weekly or monthly, covering uptime, page speed, SSL and domain monitoring.
No. StatusCake's "page speed monitoring" measures load time, "calculating the total load time, looking at each individual resource provided by the server", and gives no Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices or SEO score.
No. None of the check types StatusCake publishes compares screenshots.
StatusCake does, through an agent installed on the server, on its Superior and Business plans. SiteLetter does not: it checks pages from the outside, the way a visitor loads them.
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Comparison based on publicly available StatusCake pricing, terms and feature documentation, last verified . StatusCake is a trademark of its respective owner, used here for identification and comparison purposes only. SiteLetter is independent and not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by StatusCake. For the most current StatusCake pricing and feature information, see statuscake.com.
You set up care-plan reporting once.
After that it runs without you.
- ✓ Just add a domain. SiteLetter auto-discovers pages, starts monitoring, schedules reports. You pick your alert rules and who gets each report.
- ✓ No scripts to install. SiteLetter monitors from the outside, like a real visitor.
- ✓ Nothing recurring. No subscription, no contract. You buy credits when you want them and each site spends its own.