Vigil vs StatusCake
Updated · prices checked September 2026
StatusCake is a straightforward uptime tool with fair pricing and a good free tier. Its Superior plan ($20.41–24.49 for 100 monitors) costs about half of Vigil Pro ($49 for 200) and a little more than Vigil Starter ($19 for 50), and it does not include server metrics, logs, Kubernetes, RUM or private status pages, which Vigil has from Starter. StatusCake wins on page-speed tests and 30-second intervals from many regions.
StatusCake pricing September 2026
- Free: 10 uptime tests at 5 minutes, 1 page-speed test, 1 SSL monitor, 1 domain monitor, 1 team member.
- Superior: $20.41/month billed yearly or $24.49/month monthly. 100 uptime tests at 1 minute, 15 page-speed tests, 50 SSL, 50 domain monitors, 9 team members.
- Business: $66.66/month billed yearly or $79.99/month monthly. 300 uptime tests at 30 seconds, 30 page-speed, 100 SSL, 120 domain monitors, team tools and audit log.
- Enterprise: custom.
Source: as of September 2026, from statuscake.com/pricing. Vendors change prices; the StatusCake site is authoritative.
Vigil pricing
- Free: 20 monitors at 5-minute checks, 1 server, 1 status page, 3 team members, 7 days of history, Telegram/Slack/Discord alerts. Commercial use allowed. Free forever.
- Starter $19/month: 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals, 3 servers, 3 status pages, unlimited team members, 30 days of history.
- Pro $49/month: 200 monitors at 1-minute intervals, 15 servers, unlimited team members, 10 status pages with custom domain, password and white-label, 2,000,000 log lines, 5 Kubernetes clusters, RUM, 150 AI analyses, 90 days of history.
- Business $149/month: 1,000 monitors, 100 servers, unlimited team members, 10 identity providers (SSO, SAML, SCIM), 10 private locations, 1-year history.
- Every feature, including SSO, SLOs and private locations, is on every plan; the plans differ only in numbers.
- New accounts start on a 14-day Pro trial with no card, then stay on Free unless you choose a plan. Yearly billing gets 2 months free, no overage charges.
- Self-hosted $149/month per instance on your own server or air-gapped network.
- Add-ons on paid plans from $4: +50 monitors ($5), +5 servers ($5), +5 status pages ($4), +1M log lines ($4).
Flat monthly prices, no per-host, per-GB or per-run meters. Full plan matrix.
Feature and price comparison
✓ included · ~ partial or paid add-on · ✕ not offered. Vigil figures are for the $49 Pro plan unless stated.
| Vigil | StatusCake | |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime / API monitors and fastest interval | ✓ 20 Free (5-minute checks) / 50 Starter / 200 Pro / 1,000 Business. 1-minute checks on paid plans, 12 monitor types (Uptime, API check, API flow, Browser check, Heartbeat, TCP port, Domain & DNS, App health, Dependency, Content change, Price / number, Keyword) | ✓ 100 tests at 1 minute on Superior ($20–24/month); 300 at 30 s on Business. HTTP, keyword, TCP, ping, DNS, push, SSL, domain, page speed |
| Servers (infrastructure agent) | ✓ 1 / 3 / 15 / 100 servers included. Single-file agent for Linux and macOS, PowerShell agent for Windows: CPU, memory, disks, network, processes, services, Docker, packages, vulnerabilities, disk forecasts | ✕ Not offered |
| Logs | ✓ 10k / 250k / 2M / 10M lines included. File and journald shipping, full-text search, live tail, log-alert rules | ✕ Not offered |
| APM / traces | ~ Any OpenTelemetry SDK can send traces, metrics and logs over OTLP; Vigil's own lightweight SDKs cover Python and Node. Endpoints with p95 and Apdex, stored slow traces, slow queries, N+1 detection, service map. Not a full APM suite: no profiling | ✕ Not offered |
| Kubernetes | ✓ 1 cluster on Free and Starter, 5 on Pro, unlimited on Business. DaemonSet manifest; incidents for CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, NotReady, pressure | ✕ Not offered |
| Real User Monitoring | ✓ Web Vitals p75, page views, JS errors. 1 site Free, 2 sites / 100k views Starter, 10 sites / 1M views Pro, 50 sites / 10M views Business | ✕ Not offered |
| Status pages: private, custom domain, white-label | ✓ Private by default, password or private-link sharing, custom domain with automatic HTTPS and custom CSS on every plan including Free; white-label on paid plans. 1 / 3 / 10 / 50 pages | ~ Public status pages on paid plans; no private pages |
| Team seats | ✓ 3 on Free, unlimited on every paid plan. Owner / admin / member / viewer roles | ✓ 1 free, 9 on Superior |
| Alert channels (incl. Telegram) | ✓ Telegram, Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Matrix, ntfy, Gotify, Pushover, webhooks (HMAC, templates), email, phone push. Tickets to PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, ServiceNow, Zendesk (1 ticketing channel on Free, more on paid plans). No SMS or phone calls on the hosted service; the self-hosted edition pages by SMS and call through your own Twilio account | ✓ Email, SMS, Slack, Telegram, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, webhooks |
| Self-hosted option | ✓ Full product on your server or air-gapped network, $149/month per instance, one-line installer, signed releases | ✕ SaaS only |
| AI incident analysis | ✓ One-click root cause, fix and postmortem draft from the incident's evidence. 5 / 30 / 150 / 1,000 analyses a month | ✕ Not offered |
| Small team: 3 servers, 50 monitors, 5 people | ✓ $19/month on Starter (3 servers, 50 monitors, unlimited team members included) | Superior at $20.41–24.49/month covers 50 monitors and 5 people; servers not available at any price |
Small-team estimate uses public list prices and the cheapest tier that covers 3 servers, 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals and 5 people. Where a vendor meters by run, GB or hour we show the arithmetic so you can redo it with your own numbers.
What StatusCake does well
- Simple honest tiers, and Superior's 9 team members is generous.
- Page-speed tests, SSL and domain expiry monitoring included.
- 30-second checks on Business from many regions; long-standing, reliable.
Where Vigil is ahead
Limits of StatusCake that Vigil does not have:
- No server, log, Kubernetes, RUM or APM monitoring.
- No multi-step API flows, DNS change diffs, security grading or app-health checks.
- Status pages are public only; no password or private-link sharing.
- No self-hosted option and no AI analysis.
When to pick StatusCake instead
Pick StatusCake if you want page-speed testing, 30-second intervals from many public regions, SMS alerts, or simply a familiar pure uptime tool with 9 seats on the mid tier.
What Vigil does not do
- Browser checks use a short line-by-line script run in headless Chromium (with screenshots), not full Playwright test code kept in git.
- No SMS or phone-call alerting on the hosted service (the self-hosted edition can page by SMS and call through your own Twilio account); hosted alerts go to chat apps, phone push, email, webhooks and ticketing tools.
- On-call is simple: rotations, overrides, escalation and acknowledgements, without the scheduling depth of PagerDuty or incident.io.
- Vigil's own APM SDKs are Python and Node; other languages send traces through any OpenTelemetry SDK over OTLP. There is no profiling, and it is not a substitute for a full APM suite.
- Checks run from Vigil's servers plus private locations you host; there is no menu of dozens of public regions.
Moving from StatusCake to Vigil
1. Export what you have
List your StatusCake monitors (their API or UI export). You need a name, URL or host, interval and the expected status or keyword for each.
2. Apply as code
Write them as Vigil's YAML and apply with PUT /api/v1/config; the same endpoint exports everything back, so monitors can live in git. Or create them one by one through the REST API (monitors, incidents, maintenance, deploy markers).
3. Reconnect alerts
Add Telegram, Slack, Discord, Teams, ntfy, Pushover, email or webhook channels; set escalation to a second channel set. Point your cron jobs at the new heartbeat URLs and install the server agent with one command.
Run both side by side during the trial: Vigil's alert ingestion accepts Alertmanager and Grafana-style webhooks, so existing alerts can appear on a Vigil status page while you move over.
Frequently asked
Is Vigil cheaper than StatusCake?
Not per monitor. Vigil Starter is $19/month for 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals; StatusCake Superior is $20.41 (yearly) or $24.49 (monthly) for 100. Vigil Pro is $49/month for 200 monitors, and the extra buys 15 servers, 2M log lines, 5 Kubernetes clusters, RUM, private status pages and AI analysis. StatusCake includes SMS; it has 9 seats on Superior, Vigil has unlimited team members on every paid plan.
Does Vigil have page-speed tests?
No. Vigil measures response time for every check and Web Vitals from real users through RUM, but does not run synthetic page-speed (Lighthouse-style) tests.
Does Vigil monitor SSL and domain expiry like StatusCake?
Yes. Every uptime monitor tracks TLS expiry; the domain monitor tracks registry expiry via RDAP, registrar lock and DNS record changes, and the weekly security scan grades HSTS, CSP, cookies and TLS versions.
How do I migrate from StatusCake?
Export your tests through StatusCake's API, convert to Vigil YAML and apply with PUT /api/v1/config, or add them via Vigil's REST API. Telegram, Slack and Discord channels take a minute to reconnect.
Try Vigil next to StatusCake
Start free: every new account gets 14 days of Pro, no card. When the trial ends the account stays on Free (20 monitors) unless you choose a plan, and everything you set up stays.
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