Atlassian Statuspage vs StatusCake
Atlassian Statuspage the category incumbent, and the default if you already live in Atlassian. StatusCake uptime monitoring with public status pages included. Here is how they actually differ.
Verdict in one line each
Atlassian Statuspage
Choose it if: Organisations already standardised on Atlassian, or anyone who needs enterprise controls signed off.
Watch out: Per-subscriber pricing. Model your bill at 10x your current subscriber count before committing.
StatusCake
Choose it if: Teams who want detection and customer communication from one vendor.
Watch out: The status page is a feature of a monitoring suite rather than the main product, so design and audience controls are shallower than a dedicated tool's.
Differences that actually matter
- Built-in uptime monitoring: StatusCake supports it, Atlassian Statuspage does not.
Not yet verified for both: remove vendor branding, sms notifications, rss / atom feed, embeddable widget, audience-specific pages, sso / saml. We leave these blank rather than guessing.
Full feature comparison
Rows where the two tools differ are highlighted.
| Feature | Atlassian Statuspage | StatusCake |
|---|---|---|
| Custom domainServe the status page on your own domain, e.g. status.example.com. | Yes | Yes |
| Remove vendor brandingWhether the vendor's own branding can be removed from the public page. | Yes | Not verified |
| Per-component statusBreak the page into individual services or components with independent states. | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled maintenanceAnnounce planned windows in advance and notify subscribers. | Yes | Yes |
| Email subscribersLet customers subscribe to incident updates by email. | Yes | Yes |
| SMS notificationsDeliver incident updates over SMS. | Yes | Not verified |
| Slack notificationsPush incident updates into a Slack workspace. | Yes | Yes |
| WebhooksFire an HTTP callback when incident state changes. | Yes | Yes |
| RSS / Atom feedMachine-readable incident feed. | Yes | Not verified |
| Embeddable widgetDrop a live status badge or banner into your own app. | Yes | Not verified |
| Private status pagesRestrict the page to authenticated or invited viewers. | Yes | Yes |
| Audience-specific pagesShow different components to different customer segments. | Yes | Not verified |
| Built-in uptime monitoringThe tool can detect outages itself, rather than only displaying states you set manually. | No | Yes |
| Public APICreate and update incidents programmatically. | Yes | Yes |
| SSO / SAMLSingle sign-on for your internal team members. | Yes | Not verified |
| Self-hostableSource available and deployable on your own infrastructure. | No | No |
Yes supported · No not supported · not yet verified by us (we show a dash rather than guessing).
Pricing
Pricing
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Pricing
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What each one looks like
Common questions
Do Atlassian Statuspage and StatusCake include uptime monitoring?
Atlassian Statuspage does not monitor for you and relies on an external source to open incidents; StatusCake includes its own uptime monitoring. If you already run a monitoring stack, a bundled monitor is overlap rather than value; if you do not, buying both separately usually costs more.
Can Atlassian Statuspage or StatusCake be self-hosted?
Neither is self-hostable; both are hosted services. If keeping incident data in-house is a hard requirement, look at an open-source option instead.
What is the main difference between Atlassian Statuspage and StatusCake?
On verified features: StatusCake supports built-in uptime monitoring and Atlassian Statuspage does not. Beyond the checklist, per-subscriber pricing. model your bill at 10x your current subscriber count before committing.
Which is cheaper, Atlassian Statuspage or StatusCake?
Pricing in this category moves often and both vendors meter different things, so we link to the live pricing pages rather than quoting figures we have not re-verified. The variable that usually decides it is subscriber count: tools that charge per notified subscriber get expensive at exactly the point your product starts working.