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cannot hold places 1 to 3. Places 1 to 3 go to challengers, vendors outside the best-known brands in a category,
wherever the category has them; the established names follow from place 4 in their ranked order. How it works: placement disclosure ·
editorial process.
The 12 tools, reviewed
#1 Instatus
Status pages with a free tier and per-tier subscriber limits · United States · instatus.com
Free tier Status pages Subscribers
Instatus builds the whole product around the page and says so on its pricing table: a free Starter with 15 monitors, a two-minute check interval and 200 subscribers, then Pro with 5,000 subscribers and Business with 25,000.
- Pricing: Free plan + paid tiers. Starter is free with 200 subscribers; Pro starts at $20 a month and Business adds 25,000 subscribers; paying yearly gives 25% off. Free plan: free plan.
- Best for: Small teams starting with a free page
- Strengths: Public status pages; Private status pages on Business; Custom domains from Pro.
Where it falls short
The free tier has no custom domain, and private status pages sit on the Business plan only, so a team that wants an employee page pays for the top tier.
Wrong for
A company that needs a private page for employees on a small budget, or a buyer that wants data held in Europe, should look at Statuspal or UptimeRobot.
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#2 Hyperping
Status pages built on top of its own uptime checks · France · hyperping.com
Monitoring Public and private Paris
Hyperping sells status pages and monitoring as one product, and its page says more than 4,000 status pages are live on it. The free plan includes 20 monitors and one basic page, Essentials adds a page with a custom domain and 100 subscribers, and Pro lists three public or private pages with 1,000 subscribers, SMS subscribers and email access codes.
- Pricing: Free plan + paid tiers. Free plan with one basic status page. Free plan: free plan.
- Best for: Teams wanting monitoring and a page together
- Strengths: Public and private status pages; Status page builder; Custom domain.
Where it falls short
The top tiers carry the features larger audiences need: white labeling, a custom email domain and unlimited subscribers sit on Business at $249 a month, and SAML SSO on status pages is an Enterprise item.
Wrong for
A team that already owns monitoring and wants only a page can pay for checks it never uses.
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#3 StatusPal
Status pages, monitoring and incidents from Berlin · Germany · statuspal.io
ISO 27001 Private pages Multi-language
StatusPal is a company registered in Berlin that sells the page, incident posts and light monitoring under one login, and says its security practices are certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022. Hobby gives unlimited public pages with 500 subscribers and ten monitored services; Startup adds private pages, 1,000 subscribers and two languages; Business adds SSO and 4,000 subscribers.
- Pricing: Per plan / month. Hobby is $46 a month, Startup $99 and Business $299 on the pricing page. Free plan: free trial.
- Best for: Teams needing private and multilingual pages
- Strengths: Public status pages; Private status pages; Multi-language pages.
Where it falls short
There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and the Hobby price of $46 is higher than the entry tier of several rivals. Incident retention is 90 days on Hobby.
Wrong for
A solo founder or open-source project that wants a free page should start with Instatus, Openstatus or UptimeRobot, since StatusPal has no free tier.
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#4 Atlassian Statuspage
Atlassian's hosted public and private status pages · Australia · atlassian.com
Incumbent Public and private Jira
Statuspage is the page most customers recognize, used by companies such as DigitalOcean and Dropbox, and the name competitors compare themselves to. It offers public, private and audience-specific pages, incident templates, a component list that can show more than 150 third-party services, and Uptime Showcase for displaying history to prospects.
- Pricing: Tiered per month. Free plan with 100 subscribers; public pages run $29, $99, $399 and $1,499 a month; private pages run $79 to $1,499. Free plan: free plan.
- Best for: Jira-based teams with a large subscriber base
- Strengths: Public pages; Private pages; Audience-specific pages.
Where it falls short
Price rises quickly with audience: 5,000 subscribers cost $399 a month and 25,000 cost $1,499. Custom domains start at Hobby, SMS and webhooks at Startup, and component subscriptions and role-based access only at Business.
Wrong for
A small team that wants a custom domain and several subscriber channels cheaply should compare Instatus or Hyperping before committing to Atlassian's per-tier jumps.
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#5 Openstatus
Open-source status pages and uptime monitoring · France · openstatus.dev
Open source Self-hostable Slack agent
Openstatus publishes its whole codebase on GitHub and offers self-hosting for teams that do not want their data on its servers. The hosted product adds a Slack agent for declaring incidents and drafting status reports, an MCP server, and monitors that run from 28 regions.
- Pricing: Open source + paid tiers. Free Hobby plan. Free plan: free plan.
- Best for: Developer teams that value open code
- Strengths: Status pages with components; Custom domain; Subscribers.
Where it falls short
The free Hobby plan covers one monitor and one page with three components, so any real use needs the $30 Starter plan.
Wrong for
A non-technical support team that wants a polished page builder, or a company needing SSO and white label on a modest budget, will find Hyperping or Statuspal simpler.
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#6 OnlineOrNot
Uptime monitoring with an included status page · France · onlineornot.com
Monitoring Flat price Private pages
OnlineOrNot is run by its founder, Max, and the site says so. The Pro plan from $25 a month includes 35 monitors, one status page, unlimited users and unlimited email subscribers, and private pages are an extra $48 each. The Hobby plan gives a limited page with a logo and 100 subscribers.
- Pricing: Free plan + paid tiers. Hobby is free with 100 email subscribers. Free plan: free plan.
- Best for: Small software teams on a flat price
- Strengths: Public status page; Private status pages; Custom domain (Pro).
Where it falls short
The Hobby page has no custom domain, and the site lists no private pages on that tier. Extra pages cost $24 each and private pages $48, so a company with several products pays quickly.
Wrong for
A company that needs multi-product pages with SSO, audience-specific access or multi-language pages should look at Atlassian Statuspage or Statuspal instead.
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#7 UptimeRobot
Uptime monitoring with free and paid status pages · Slovakia · uptimerobot.com
Monitoring Free tier Bratislava
UptimeRobot is a monitoring service with a status page layer: pick monitors, choose a layout, add a custom domain and publish. Pages support announcements for incidents and planned maintenance, automatic email notifications, a password-protected private mode, Google Analytics, response-time display and a status badge for your own site.
- Pricing: Free plan + paid tiers. Free plan with basic status pages. Free plan: free plan.
- Best for: Budget teams needing a basic hosted page
- Strengths: Hosted status pages; Custom domain; Password-protected pages.
Where it falls short
The page text names email for subscriber notifications and no SMS channel. The free plan offers only basic status pages. White label begins at the Team plan, and component-level subscriptions are not named.
Wrong for
A SaaS company that wants subscribers to choose components or receive SMS should compare Hyperping, Atlassian Statuspage or Statuspal before relying on UptimeRobot.
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#8 StatusCake
Monitoring vendor with separately priced status pages · United Kingdom · statuscake.com
Monitoring UK Page tiers
StatusCake Pages is a separate product from its uptime plans, with Bronze, Silver and Gold tiers allowing one, five or ten pages and 300, 1,500 or 7,000 subscribers. Customers subscribe by email, text message or RSS, and a page can be protected by a password or an IP access list. Custom CSS and removal of branding are listed.
- Pricing: Per plan / month. Page tiers are Bronze, Silver and Gold at EUR 11.63, 36.63 and 183.29 a month on annual billing (13.95, 43.95 and 219.95 monthly). Free plan: free plan.
- Best for: Existing StatusCake monitoring customers
- Strengths: Status pages up to 10; Subscribers by email, SMS and RSS; Password protection.
Where it falls short
Status pages are sold on their own price ladder, apart from monitoring, so a buyer pays twice. Component subscriptions, SSO and multi-language pages are not listed on the page tiers.
Wrong for
A team starting from nothing that wants one bill for checks and a page should consider Hyperping or OnlineOrNot, where the page comes with the plan.
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#9 ilert
Incident management with status pages, made in Germany · Germany · ilert.com
Incident platform Germany ISO 27001
ilert is an on-call and incident platform from Cologne that includes status pages in two places: one page in the free plan for up to five users, and Status Pages as an add-on elsewhere. Pages can be public, private or audience-specific, connect to monitoring tools through automation rules, and reflect maintenance windows on related services.
- Pricing: Per user / month. Free plan for up to 5 users includes one status page; status pages also appear among add-ons on the pricing page. Free plan: free plan.
- Best for: On-call teams in Europe wanting a page too
- Strengths: Public status pages; Private status pages; Audience-specific pages.
Where it falls short
A buyer who only wants a page pays for an on-call platform, since the page is part of an incident product.
Wrong for
A company with no on-call rotation, or a marketing team that wants a simple branded page, should use a dedicated tool such as Instatus or Statuspal.
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#10 Rootly
Incident response platform with included status pages · United States · rootly.com
Incident platform Slack-first Import tool
Rootly runs incidents in Slack, Teams or Google Chat and publishes the customer-facing update from the same record. Its status pages are public or private, can be branded on your own domain with custom paths, logo and colors, and can require authentication. It can import an Atlassian status page together with its history and subscribers, the clearest migration route among the tools.
- Pricing: Per user / month. Incident Response is listed at $20 per user per month and the site says status pages are included with it. Free plan: free trial.
- Best for: Slack-centered engineering teams
- Strengths: Public status pages; Private status pages; Authenticated private access.
Where it falls short
A team that wants only a page must buy an incident response product, and the price scales with responders, not audience. Detail on subscriber limits is not given on the status page materials we read.
Wrong for
A small company without an incident process, or a support team looking for a stand-alone page, should choose Instatus or Hyperping, since Rootly adds incident software they would not use.
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#11 Spike
On-call and alerting with a built-in status page · India · spike.sh
On-call Per-user price Pune
Spike is an alerting and on-call tool that includes a status page: components with 90-day bars, an incident timeline, scheduled maintenance with a reminder before it starts, and a widget to embed the status in your own app. Customers subscribe by email, Slack, RSS or Atom.
- Pricing: Per user / month. Standard is $7 per user per month and Business $14, billed monthly, with a 14-day trial. Free plan: free trial.
- Best for: Small on-call teams on a low per-user price
- Strengths: Status page with components; Planned maintenance reminders; Subscribers by email, Slack, RSS and Atom.
Where it falls short
The page is one feature of an on-call product, not the product itself. The pricing table does not state subscriber limits, and per-user pricing counts responders, not audience.
Wrong for
A company that wants SMS or per-component subscriptions for customers, or a buyer who needs a European vendor, should choose Statuspal, Atlassian Statuspage or ilert.
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#12 Uptime.com
Monitoring platform with public and private status pages · United States · uptime.com
Monitoring Password-protected Florida
Uptime.com is a monitoring service with a status page feature that supports email and SMS subscribers, a private status page, password protection, a custom subdomain over HTTPS, and an embeddable status notice. Pages can use Google Analytics and be hidden from search engines. Its FAQ says additional status pages can be added to a basic or advanced plan.
- Pricing: Tiered per month. Plans are tiered and billed monthly or yearly with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Free plan: none.
- Best for: Teams already on Uptime.com monitoring
- Strengths: Public status pages; Private status page; Password-protected pages.
Where it falls short
The pricing page text we read shows no figures for the page, so cost is unclear until the plan builder loads. There is no free plan on the pages we read, only a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Wrong for
A buyer who only needs a status page, or one who wants a free tier to test, should look at Instatus, Openstatus or Hyperping before paying for a monitoring platform.
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Questions and answers
What is the best status page software in 2026?
Instatus ranks first of 12, best for small teams starting with a free page. Hyperping is second (teams wanting monitoring and a page together) and StatusPal third (teams needing private and multilingual pages). Places 1 to 3 go to challengers, vendors outside the best-known brands, wherever the category has them.
What is the difference between a status page and uptime monitoring?
Uptime monitoring checks whether a service responds and alerts your team. A status page tells customers what you know and what you are doing about it.
Which status page software has a free plan?
Eight of the twelve in this list show a free plan on their own pages: Instatus, Hyperping, Atlassian Statuspage, Openstatus, OnlineOrNot, UptimeRobot, ilert and StatusCake. Limits differ.
How much does status page software cost?
Entry paid plans on the pages we read start between roughly $7 and $46 a month.
Can I run a private status page for employees or select customers?
Yes, several vendors offer it. Atlassian sells a separate private page ladder from $79 a month for 50 employees. Statuspal includes private pages from its Startup plan, UptimeRobot offers password protection, and StatusCake supports password and IP access.
Is there open-source or self-hosted status page software?
Openstatus is the one on this list that publishes its source on GitHub and describes a self-hosting option, alongside a hosted product with a free plan.
Do I need a custom domain, and which plans include it?
A custom domain such as status.example.com looks more trustworthy and keeps subscribers inside your brand. Atlassian includes it from the $29 Hobby plan, Hyperping from Essentials, UptimeRobot from its Solo tier, and Instatus from Pro.
How do subscribers get notified?
Email is universal. Atlassian adds SMS and webhooks from its Startup plan and lists Slack and Teams on all plans. Spike offers email, Slack, RSS and Atom. Hyperping adds SMS subscribers and email access codes on Pro.
Which status page software suits a small SaaS company?
A small SaaS with one product and a few hundred customers is well served by Instatus, Hyperping or Openstatus on a free or low-cost plan, because each lists a custom domain and subscriber notifications at modest tiers.
Should the status page run on the same infrastructure as my product?
No. If the page shares your cloud account, DNS or CDN, a major failure can take both down. Use a hosted vendor, and point only a CNAME at it, keeping the provider independent of your production stack.
How do I move from Atlassian Statuspage to another tool?
Export subscribers and incident history first, then check what the new vendor can import. Rootly states an import from Atlassian that carries history and subscribers.
