Reviewed September 2026

Pulsetic review: the status page is the product

Plenty of monitoring tools include a status page. Pulsetic is built the other way round — the status page is the thing, and the monitoring exists to fill it. Its free plan gives you ten monitors and three status pages on domains you own, with three months of history behind them, which is more than most competitors give away at any price.

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Is Pulsetic worth it?

If a public status page is what you actually need, yes, and the free plan alone beats several paid alternatives. A custom domain on the free tier is genuinely unusual — most vendors treat that as the first thing you pay for. The limits are scope rather than quality: this is uptime and status pages, with no certificate expiry alerting, no domain monitoring and no content change detection.

4.1/ 5
Best free status pages available Our assessment, written by the team behind a competing product — read it as an informed opinion, not a neutral audit. Every factual claim is checked against Pulsetic's own public pricing and documentation at the time of writing.
Overview

What Pulsetic is

Pulsetic monitors uptime and publishes the results as public status pages. The free plan covers 10 monitors, 3 status pages each on a domain you own, unlimited email alerts and three months of uptime and incident history, with no card and no time limit.

A custom domain being included free is the detail worth noticing. Competitors almost universally reserve branded status pages for a paid tier, so a small project can have a properly branded status page at status.yourdomain.com without paying anything.

Paid tiers add the things that make a status page useful in an incident: customisation, incident updates, scheduled maintenance, subscriber notifications, status badges, password protection and search engine opt-out. Solo is $9 a month, Team $19 for 50 monitors and Organization $49 for 300.

Capabilities

What Pulsetic does well

Status pages treated as the point rather than a bonus.

Custom domains on the free plan

Status pages on a domain you own, at no cost. Almost nobody else does this, and it is the single most persuasive thing about the product.

A genuinely usable free tier

10 monitors, 3 status pages, unlimited email alerts and three months of history, with no card and no expiry.

Incident communication tools

Incident updates, scheduled maintenance windows and subscriber notifications from $9 a month.

Status page controls

Password protection and search engine opt-out for pages that should not be public or indexed.

Sensible paid scaling

Team at $19 for 50 monitors and Organization at $49 for 300 are reasonable for the monitor counts.

Clean, modern design

The status pages look current, which matters when they are the thing customers see during an incident.

Cost

What Pulsetic costs

A free tier most competitors would charge for, then three modest paid tiers.

Plan Price/mo Monitors Notes
Free $0 10 3 status pages on your own domain, 3 months history
Solo $9 More Customisation, incident updates, maintenance, subscribers
Team $19 50
Organization $49 300

Monitoring vendors change plan limits and prices frequently and without announcement. Every figure here carries a "verify on their site" caveat and you should take it seriously before making a decision on cost.

The balance

Where it is strong, and where it is not

What works

  • Custom-domain status pages on the free plan, which is rare at any price.
  • 10 free monitors with three months of uptime and incident history.
  • Incident updates, maintenance windows and subscriber notifications from $9.
  • Password protection and search engine opt-out for private status pages.
  • Clean modern design on the pages customers actually see.

What to watch out for

  • No SSL certificate expiry alerting.
  • No domain expiry monitoring.
  • No page content change detection or cron heartbeats.
  • Status page customisation and subscriber alerts need a paid plan.
  • A narrower product than general monitoring tools at similar prices.
Fit

Who Pulsetic is for

Choose it if

  • Anyone whose main requirement is a public status page.
  • Small teams who want a branded status page without paying for one.
  • SaaS products that need to communicate incidents to customers properly.
  • Projects that fit inside 10 monitors and want three months of history.

Look elsewhere if

  • Teams needing certificate or domain expiry warnings.
  • Anyone wanting content change detection or job monitoring.
  • Estates where monitoring depth matters more than presentation.
  • Buyers who need a single tool covering every kind of check.
Disclosure

Where MonitoringDaddy fits

Pulsetic has a free plan and we do not, and theirs includes custom-domain status pages. For someone who wants a branded status page for a small project and nothing else, they win outright and we would say so.

What they do not cover is everything that expires or changes quietly. No certificate expiry alerting, no domain monitoring, no content change detection, no heartbeats. Our $5 plan covers 25 monitors that can be any of those, with certificate warning windows from 1 to 60 days and domain expiry from 1 to 180 — and status pages are included with us too, up to 50 on the higher plans.

The honest split: the status page is the deliverable — theirs, free. The status page is one output of watching a lot of things that can go wrong — ours.

See it

What an alert actually looks like

Every recorded change is compared word by word and kept with a before-and-after image. This is the real output, shown with worked example data.

competitor.com/pricing Watching: Pricing table
Pro plan — $49 per month
+ Pro plan — $39 per month
+ Save 20% with annual billing

Price fell from $49 to $39, and an annual discount was added.

2 words added · 1 removed · 4.1% of the watched region

retailer.com/product/… Watching: Availability
Out of stock
+ In stock — ships tomorrow
+ Add to basket

The item is available again and the basket button returned.

6 words added · 3 removed · 12.5% of the watched region

supplier.com/subprocessors Watching: Subprocessor list
~ Data is processed in the EUthe EU and the United States
+ Added: Northwind Analytics Inc. (United States)

A new subprocessor was added in another jurisdiction.

9 words added · 2 removed · 1.8% of the watched region

Worked example — not live data. Start monitoring free
Alerts

Where we can reach you

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.

Email Before and after images inline
Browser push On a phone or desktop lock screen
RSS feed Every recorded change, as a feed
SlackPaid Through an incoming webhook
Microsoft TeamsPaid Through an incoming webhook
DiscordPaid Through an incoming webhook
TelegramPaid Straight to a chat or channel
FlockPaid Through an incoming webhook
WebhooksPaid Post to anything you run yourself

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.

FAQ

Pulsetic review: your questions answered

Is Pulsetic free?

Yes. The free plan covers 10 monitors, 3 status pages each on a domain you own, unlimited email alerts and three months of uptime and incident history, with no credit card and no time limit.

Is a custom domain really included free?

Yes, on every plan including the free one. Most competitors treat branded status pages as a paid feature, so this is the most notable thing about the product.

How much are the paid plans?

Solo is $9 a month, Team $19 for 50 monitors and Organization $49 for 300. Paid plans add customisation, incident updates, scheduled maintenance, subscriber notifications, status badges, password protection and search engine opt-out.

Does Pulsetic monitor SSL certificates?

No. Certificate expiry alerting is not part of the product, so a renewal you forget will not be caught here.

Does it monitor domain expiry?

No. Domain registration lapses are outside its scope.

Can I hide a status page from search engines?

Yes, search engine opt-out and password protection are available on paid plans for pages that should not be public or indexed.

How long is history kept?

Three months of uptime and incident history on the free plan.

How does it compare with MonitoringDaddy?

Their free plan with custom-domain status pages beats anything we offer for free. We cover certificates, domains, page content changes and heartbeats from $5 a month, none of which Pulsetic does, and include status pages as well.

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Last updated August 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy

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Amit Gupta

Amit Gupta is the founder of MonitoringDaddy , a website and infrastructure monitoring platform built by TotosLocal One Private Limited. He writes about uptime, change detection, SSL and domain monitoring, and helps teams keep their websites fast, secure and online.

Status pages, plus everything that expires quietly.

Pulsetic gives away branded status pages. We add certificates, domains, page changes and heartbeats from $5 a month.