A status page has one job: to be up and truthful when your product is not. That sounds trivial until you notice how many status pages are updated by hand, which means the page stays green for as long as it takes somebody to notice, log in and write a post.
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What is the best hosted status page tool?
It depends on whether the page should update itself. Atlassian Statuspage is the most recognisable and has the best subscriber handling at scale, at $29 to $1,499 a month. Instatus is the best-looking and costs $20 until a hard jump to $300. Pulsetic gives away custom-domain pages free. What we offer is monitoring that opens incidents automatically, so the page reflects reality without anyone posting.
Status pages divide cleanly into two kinds: those a human updates, and those the monitoring updates. The first kind is a publishing tool and the second is a monitoring feature, and the price difference between them is not always related to which one you actually need.
This list is published by MonitoringDaddy and we make one of the eleven tools on it. We rank ourselves first on a narrow criterion — the page being driven by monitoring you already have, on one bill — and several tools below are better than us at the status page itself. Their entries say so.
One structural point worth making before the list: a self-hosted status page runs on infrastructure, and if that infrastructure is the infrastructure having the incident, the page goes down with it. That is the argument for hosted, and it applies to two of the free options below.
Prices were checked against vendor pricing pages in September 2026.
On whether the page tells the truth without somebody remembering to make it.
The ranking criterion is a status page that reflects reality automatically, at a price a small or mid-sized team can justify. That favours tools where monitoring and the page are the same product, which is why we rank first — and it is a narrow criterion that deliberately does not reward the things Statuspage is genuinely best at.
If your requirement is notifying thousands of subscribers during an incident, with segmentation by audience and SMS at scale, this ranking is the wrong one to read. Buy Statuspage or Status.io and do not let a price comparison talk you out of it.
| If you need… | What matters | Best on this list |
|---|---|---|
| The page to update itself | Monitoring and page in one product | Us, Better Stack or Hund |
| Thousands of subscribers notified | Subscriber management at scale | Atlassian Statuspage or Status.io |
| A free branded status page | Custom domain on a free plan | Pulsetic |
| The best-looking page | Design and speed | Instatus or Better Stack |
| Full control and no vendor | Self-hosted, open source | Uptime Kuma or Cachet |
Ranked for pages driven by monitoring. Each entry says who it is really for.
Status pages are included on every plan — one on the entry plan, up to 50 on Pro — and they are fed by the monitors you already have. Uptime, certificates, domains, page content and cron heartbeats all appear on the page, so it reflects what is actually happening rather than what somebody remembered to post. From $5 a month for 25 monitors. What we do not offer: subscriber notification at scale, audience segmentation, multi-language pages or component dependency modelling. Try MonitoringDaddy — plans from $5 a month.
The best-looking status pages in this comparison paired with genuinely strong on-call, escalation and incident management. If somebody is carrying a pager, this is the product that connects the rota to the page properly. Priced for teams that have a rota; expensive for teams that do not.
Fast, beautifully designed pages and a generous free tier. Pro is $20 a month with custom domains and 5,000 subscribers, which is excellent value. The catch is the next step: private pages and SSO sit on a Business plan at $300 a month ($225 annually), priced against Statuspage rather than against the features it gates. Know which side of that line you are on before committing.
The most recognisable status page product, and the one your customers have seen before. Free plan, then Hobby at $29 a month for 250 subscribers, Startup at $99 for 1,000 with SMS and webhook notifications, Business at $399 for 5,000, and Enterprise from $1,499 for 25,000. Subscriber notification at that scale is something most tools on this list do not attempt, including us.
Three status pages on domains you own, free, with ten monitors behind them and three months of history. A custom domain on a free plan is genuinely unusual — most vendors treat branding as the first thing you pay for. Customisation, incident updates, maintenance windows and subscriber notifications start at $9 a month.
Multiple status pages, clean design, no limits, MIT licensed. The caveat is the one that applies to every self-hosted status page: it runs on infrastructure, and if that is the infrastructure having the incident, your status page is down at exactly the moment it matters. Host it somewhere entirely separate.
Sophisticated subscriber segmentation by audience, component hierarchies and per-component SLA reporting. If different customer groups need to hear different things during an incident, this handles it properly and most of the list does not.
Real monitoring behind the page rather than manual incident entry, plus component dependency modelling so a failing service correctly marks everything that depends on it. That dependency graph is genuinely useful on a complex product and rare at this price.
Multi-language status pages, which nothing else on this list offers, along with solid subscriber management. If your customers are not all reading in English, this is the shortlist of one.
Tight integration with Freshdesk and Freshservice, so incidents flow into support workflow directly, plus private status pages for internal audiences. The right choice if you already run Freshworks and the wrong one if you do not.
Cachet is free, open source and can run inside a private network for internal status. Upptime is genuinely free on public GitHub repositories, with every check, incident and config change recorded in git — total transparency, and checks bounded by GitHub Actions rather than by a plan. Both are self-hosted, so both carry the same failure mode: the page can go down with the thing it reports on.
Five situations that cover most teams.
Choose a tool where the monitoring and the page are the same product. A page updated by hand is only as current as the last person who noticed something was wrong.
Atlassian Statuspage or Status.io. Subscriber management at scale — segmentation, SMS, thousands of recipients — is a real engineering problem and these two solve it. Most of this list, ours included, does not.
Pulsetic. Custom domains on the free plan with ten monitors behind them, which no other free option matches.
Cachet or Upptime, with eyes open about the trade: a self-hosted status page shares the fate of whatever hosts it. If it lives in the same place as your product, it will be unavailable during exactly the incident it exists to report.
Statuspal. Multi-language status pages are the one feature here with effectively no competition.
Most status page regret comes from these rather than from design.
If your status page is hosted on the same infrastructure as your product, it will be down during the outage it exists to describe. This is the single most common status page mistake and it is architectural, not a setting.
A page that requires a human to post is a publishing tool. That is fine if you have an on-call process that reliably includes posting; it is not fine if the page is your only customer communication and everyone is busy fixing the problem.
Subscriber counts are the main pricing lever on status pages. Statuspage runs from 250 subscribers at $29 to 25,000 at $1,499. Work out your realistic number before comparing headline prices.
status.yourdomain.com reads as yours; a vendor subdomain reads as an outsourced afterthought. Most tools charge for this — Pulsetic notably does not.
Publish a status page that updates itself from your monitoring.
Give it a name your customers will recognise as yours.
The site, the API, the login path. Internal jobs usually belong on an internal page rather than a public one.
status.yourdomain.com rather than a vendor subdomain, so it reads as part of your product.
Agree in advance who posts, or use monitoring that opens the incident automatically so the page is right before anyone has time to update it.
Wherever the page lives, it must not share infrastructure with the thing it reports on.
Typically about 3 minutes from start to finish.
Uptime monitors, watched pages and heartbeats each get their own allowance, so adding a page watch never costs you a monitor. SSL and domain checks ride along with the monitor they belong to and use nothing extra.
| Plan | Monitors | Watched pages | Heartbeats | Fastest interval | Alert channels | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | 1 | 1 | Every 30 minutes | 1 email address | $0 |
| Founding Member first 20 only | 25 | 25 | 25 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | $5/mo |
| Basic | 10 | 10 | 10 | Every 10 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | $8/mo |
| Growth | 50 | 50 | 50 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | $19/mo |
| Pro | 100 | 100 | 100 | Every 60 seconds | Email + webhook & chat | $34/mo |
Annual billing is cheaper on every paid tier. The pricing page is the authoritative list.
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The free plan sends to one email address. Every paid plan adds the chat and webhook channels below, with 2 to 10 destinations depending on the plan. However many alerts you receive, the price does not change — nothing here is metered or charged per alert.
There are no voice calls and no SMS. If a phone call at 3am is a hard requirement, say so before you subscribe — we would rather tell you now than refund you later.
Pulsetic, because it includes custom domains on the free plan with ten monitors behind the pages. Uptime Kuma and Cachet are free if you self-host, and Upptime is free on public GitHub repositories. Atlassian Statuspage and Instatus both have free tiers with vendor branding.
There is a free plan, then Hobby at $29 a month for 250 subscribers, Startup at $99 for 1,000, Business at $399 for 5,000 and Enterprise from $1,499 for 25,000. Subscriber count is the main thing you are paying for.
Pro at $20 a month covers custom domains and 5,000 subscribers. Private pages and SSO sit on the Business plan at $300 a month, which is priced against Statuspage at $399 rather than against the cost of those features. If you need private pages, budget for the jump.
Usually not. A self-hosted status page runs on infrastructure, and if that infrastructure is having the incident the page is unavailable exactly when it is needed. If you do self-host, put it somewhere with no shared dependency on your product.
It depends on your process. Automatic incident creation means the page is accurate before anyone has time to write anything, which matters when the team is busy fixing the problem. Manual posting gives more control over wording, at the cost of the page being stale exactly when people are looking at it.
It is worth having. status.yourdomain.com reads as part of your product; a vendor subdomain reads as outsourced. Most tools charge for it, and Pulsetic includes it free.
Letting customers subscribe to updates by email, SMS or webhook and notifying them when an incident opens or updates. It is the main pricing lever on dedicated status page products and the feature general monitoring tools are weakest at.
No. The page tells customers what is happening; it does not get anyone out of bed. Tools like Better Stack pair the two, which is the point of buying them together.
Last updated August 4, 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
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