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StatusCake.com offers website owners and web-masters the best website monitoring available. So if you’re looking for an alternative to BinaryCanary.com then StatusCake is the monitoring service for you.
At StatusCake we recognise not everyone needs, or can afford, a premium website monitoring service. We believe however that a free service should not mean that you have to compromise on functionality, features or customer service. That’s why StatusCake’s free website monitoring service is the best around.
You can see below how StatusCake compares with the free monitoring offered by BinaryCanary.com. StatusCake not only allows you to monitor more URLs and websites for uptime – in fact StatusCake offers unlimited monitoring, but StatusCake will check your website every 5 minutes for downtime, whereas BinaryCanary will only check your website very quarter of an hour.
| BinaryCanary.com | StatusCake | |
| Monthly Cost | Free | Free |
| Websites Monitored | 5 | Unlimited |
| Monitoring Frequency | 15 Minutes | 5 Minutes |
If you’re a website owner that needs more regular uptime monitoring checks, or would like more features, then a paid website monitoring plan is what you’ll be looking for.
| BinaryCanary.com | StatusCake | |
| Monthly Cost | $20 (Hyper Plan) | $19.99 (Business) |
| Websites Monitored | 100 | Unlimited |
| Monitoring Frequency | 1 Minute | 30 Seconds |
| Free SMS Credits | 100 (On Sign-Up) | Unlimited (Every Month) |
As well as offering more features and more regular downtime checks for less money than BinaryCanary; StatusCake also offers for free real user monitoring and performance testing tools.
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