Comparison

PingView vs StatusCake

StatusCake tests from 43 locations across five continents. PingView tests from 5, all in Europe and the US. This page is about what PingView gives you instead: a status page, synthetic browser tests and RUM bundled into one plan rather than sold as separate add-ons.

Researched and verified on 2026-08-15. We recheck competitor pricing quarterly.

The short answer

Choose PingView when

You want a status page on your own domain with no branding fee hidden behind a higher tier, plus Playwright browser tests, visual regression and Real User Monitoring, none of which StatusCake offers today. Invoicing is in PLN from a Polish entity, and the interface is in Polish.

Choose StatusCake when

You need to test from outside Europe and the US, especially Asia, Oceania, South America or Africa, or your team already runs on-call through PagerDuty, OpsGenie or VictorOps. StatusCake covers all three today; PingView covers none of them.

Feature by feature

PingView and StatusCake compared
FeaturePingViewStatusCake
Monitoring locationsPingView probes from Wrocław, Berlin, Worcester, Newark and Milan, Europe and the US only. StatusCake covers Asia, Oceania, South America and Africa as well.543 in 30 countries
Free plan: choose your test locationPingView's free plan assigns one fixed location. StatusCake's free plan assigns a server at random; picking a region requires the Superior plan or higher.AvailableNot available
Native monitor typesPingView: HTTP, TCP, ICMP ping, heartbeat. StatusCake lists HTTP, HEAD, TCP, DNS, SMTP, SSH, PING and PUSH.48
Fastest check intervalPingView needs Professional for 1 minute; StatusCake reaches 30 seconds on its Business plan.1 min30 s
Status page white-label includedIncluded in PingView's Professional plan (299 PLN/mo). StatusCake sells status pages as a separate product, and removing their branding requires the Gold tier at $208.29/mo on top of the monitoring plan.AvailableNot available
SMS credits included in plan priceStatusCake bundles 75 SMS credits (Superior) or 400 (Business) into the plan price. PingView sends SMS through SerwerSMS.pl, but plan pricing does not confirm any included credits.Not availableAvailable
Browser tests with PlaywrightStatusCake's page speed test measures load time, not a multi-step browser scenario.AvailableNot available
Visual regression testingAvailableNot available
Real User MonitoringPingView keeps raw RUM events for 7 days on every plan.AvailableNot available
Core Web VitalsPingView runs Lighthouse. StatusCake describes 'page speed' testing without a confirmed Core Web Vitals methodology.AvailablePartially available
Security header scanningPingView scores headers with the MDN HTTP Observatory engine; not found on StatusCake's feature pages.AvailableNot available
SSL monitoringPingView tracks SSL as an HTTP monitor attribute. StatusCake runs it as a separate monitor type, with intervals down to 10 minutes on Business.AvailableAvailable
On-call integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, VictorOps)Confirmed on StatusCake's integrations page. PingView has none of these, and no escalation policies or on-call schedules either.Not availableAvailable
E-commerce plugins (WordPress, PrestaShop, Magento)AvailableNot available
Polish interfaceAvailableNot available
Pricing currencyStatusCake's pricing page lists USD only; no PLN option found.PLN, USDUSD

Competitor data collected on 2026-08-15 from public pricing and documentation pages. Vendors change plans without notice, so verify current terms before you decide.

Where PingView is genuinely ahead

A white-label status page with no extra bill

PingView includes a custom domain and full white-labelling in the Professional plan (299 PLN/month), the same plan that covers monitoring itself. StatusCake sells status pages as a separate product, and removing their own branding requires the Gold tier at $208.29 per month, on top of whatever you already pay for uptime monitoring.

Synthetic browser tests, visual regression and RUM, none of which StatusCake has

PingView runs Playwright scenarios through real Chromium sessions, tracks visual regressions against an approved baseline, and collects Real User Monitoring data, all from the Professional plan. We found only a single page-load speed test in StatusCake's product pages: no multi-step browser scenarios, no visual comparison and no RUM.

E-commerce plugins that build the monitor for you

The WordPress plugin on wordpress.org, plus the PrestaShop and Magento 2 modules, create an account and a monitor straight from the shop admin and then show status and incidents there. StatusCake's product and integration pages list no comparable e-commerce plugin.

A Polish product for Polish invoicing

Polish interface, prices in PLN, a Polish legal entity for RODO and DPA, and a Polish SMS provider for alerts to Polish numbers. StatusCake prices in USD, GBP and EUR with no PLN option found, and its pricing and product pages show no Polish language version.

Where StatusCake beats us

We would rather you read this here than discover it after signing up.

It tests from 43 locations on five continents. We test from 5.

StatusCake runs a real global fleet: 43 locations in 30 countries, including Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Bangalore, Johannesburg and Sao Paulo. PingView has five fixed probes, all in Europe and the eastern United States, with zero coverage in Asia, Oceania, South America or Africa. This is our weakest point in this comparison, and nothing here changes that.

It plugs into on-call tools we don't have at all

StatusCake connects to PagerDuty, OpsGenie and VictorOps, confirmed on their integrations page. PingView has none of these, and no escalation policies or on-call schedules either.

A faster check interval on its top non-enterprise plan

StatusCake's Business plan reaches a 30 second interval. PingView's fastest interval, on Professional, is 1 minute.

More declared monitor types, including DNS and a push-based check

StatusCake lists 8 monitor types: HTTP, HEAD, TCP, DNS, SMTP, SSH, PING and PUSH. PingView has 4 that actually run; DNS record monitoring is a plan flag with no implementation behind it.

SMS credits bundled into the plan price

StatusCake's Superior and Business plans include 75 and 400 SMS credits respectively at the base price. PingView sends SMS through SerwerSMS.pl, a Polish provider, but plan pricing does not confirm any included credit allowance.

A much longer track record and a larger user base

TrafficCake Limited has run StatusCake under one brand since 2012 and reports over 200,000 users worldwide. PingView is a far younger product without that scale of public history.

Pick StatusCake if this is you

You need probes in Asia, Oceania, South America or Africa, your team already runs on-call through PagerDuty, OpsGenie or VictorOps, or you want SMS credits and a 30 second interval bundled into the plan price. StatusCake covers all of that today. PingView does not, and we would rather say so here than have you find out later.

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Choose the perfect plan for your monitoring needs.

Protect your revenue for the price of a pizza.

Starter

$24.99/mo

25 monitors

~1.00 $/monitor

Most popular

Professional

$74.99/mo

100 monitors

~0.75 $/monitor

Enterprise

Custom pricing

Custom limits

Everything you need:

Email/webhook alerts; SMS on Professional SSL monitoring Cron job tracking Public status page

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Questions people actually ask

Does StatusCake have more monitoring locations than PingView?

Yes. StatusCake runs 43 locations in 30 countries, including Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America. PingView has 5 probes, all in Europe and the eastern United States.

Can I choose my test location on StatusCake's free plan?

No. The free plan assigns a server at random, and picking a specific region requires the Superior plan or higher. PingView's free plan assigns one fixed location instead of a random one, though it does not let you choose which.

Is a white-label status page included in a StatusCake plan?

No. Status pages are a separate product on StatusCake, and removing their branding requires the Gold tier at $208.29 per month, on top of the monitoring plan. PingView includes a custom domain and full white-labelling in the Professional plan, at no extra charge.

Does StatusCake integrate with PagerDuty and OpsGenie?

Yes, confirmed on their integrations page, alongside VictorOps. PingView has none of these integrations and no on-call scheduling of its own.

Does StatusCake support PLN pricing or Polish VAT invoices?

We found no public confirmation of either. Its pricing page lists USD, with GBP and EUR mentioned elsewhere. PingView bills in PLN and USD from a Polish entity and issues a downloadable VAT invoice.

What do StatusCake users complain about most often?

A recurring pattern in reviews links the free plan, one randomly assigned server with no location choice, to false downtime alerts not confirmed by other monitoring tools; one reviewer reported over 180 such alerts. That said, the underlying review base on Trustpilot and G2 is very small, so treat this as a weak signal rather than a statistical certainty. Overall support ratings on Capterra are actually good, which suggests the complaints cluster around this one free-plan scenario rather than support quality in general.

How we compared

Every claim about StatusCake comes from their public pricing page, documentation and help centre, collected on 2026-08-15 and linked below. Every claim about PingView is checked against our own source code rather than our marketing copy, which is why some rows show limits our own landing pages used to overstate. Where a fact could not be confirmed from a primary source, we leave it out instead of guessing.

Disclosure: PingView publishes this page and PingView is one of the two products compared. We have an obvious interest in the outcome, so we list where the other tool is the better choice and link their pricing page so you can check the numbers yourself.

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