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A status page with uptime monitoring, on-call and incident management in the same account — free for 15 monitors and 200 subscribers, from $15 a month billed yearly for a public Pro page.

Rating
4.2 4.2 out of 5
Starting price $20 per month billed monthly, or $15 a month billed yearly ($180 a year) — the public-page Pro plan; a private page is $50 a month and an audience-selected page $100 a month
Free trial Yes
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Pros

  • The free plan is a working status page rather than a demo: 15 monitors, 2-minute checks, email alerts, 50 components and groups, 5 team members and 2 on-call members, with no card and no stated time limit — so you can run a real page for a small product before paying anything
  • Monitoring is in the same account and the same bill as the status page: website, keyword, API, cron and heartbeat, ping, SSL, TCP and UDP and DNS checks, which is one subscription instead of a status page plus a separate uptime monitor
  • The channels go well past email: alerts can go to SMS, push notifications, webhooks, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, WhatsApp, Discord and phone calls, and subscribers can follow the page by email, SMS, Slack, Teams, Discord, Google Chat, RSS and Atom, X or the public API
  • The yearly discount is exactly what the page advertises and checks out by division on every tier: 25% off, or three months free — $20 to $15, $50 to $37.50, $100 to $75 and $300 to $225 a month
  • Pro's allowance is generous for the money it costs: 50 monitors at 30-second checks, 1,000 components and groups, 5,000 subscribers, 20 on-call members and 1+ custom domain for $20 a month, or $15 a month billed yearly
  • The exit terms are stated plainly rather than buried: you can cancel at any time, and a yearly plan is refunded for the unused months instead of being committed when it is paid; payments run through Paddle and take cards, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Setup is fast in the evidence that exists: G2 puts time to implement at under one month across its reviews, and a r/devops user reported being up and running with New Relic in minutes
  • Where a sample exists the customer record is close to perfect: G2 carries Instatus at 4.9 out of 5 from 14 reviews with all 14 five-star, and the summary G2 generates from those reviews names ease of use and design first and mentions a responsive support team
  • The integration list covers what usually sits next to a status page: Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Checkly, PagerDuty, Pingdom, Freshping, Better Uptime, HetrixTools, Runscope, Site24x7, StatusCake, Uptime Robot, webhooks, Slack, Intercom and email

Cons

  • The headline Pro price is the public-page price, and the page type moves it: the same tier is $50 a month for a private page ($37.50 billed yearly) and $100 a month for an audience-selected page ($75 billed yearly) — decide the page type before you budget, because the model changed in 2026 and older reviews price a product that no longer exists
  • Billing is per status page, so several pages mean several subscriptions: only Business covers 3 pages of any type, and the shape of that bill is the r/sysadmin report of about $450 a year per page from someone who moved away over it
  • The step from Pro to Business is 15x at $20 to $300 a month billed monthly, and that step is what buys SAML SSO, phone-call alerts, a year of log retention, unlimited team members and more than 5,000 subscribers
  • Monitoring is basic beside a dedicated uptime service: 2-minute checks on the free plan, 30 seconds at best on the paid tiers and nothing faster below Enterprise, and reviewers call the metrics limited — one G2 reviewer asks for more built-in monitoring and an older comparison says Instatus has almost no visualization
  • Editing at scale is the repeated complaint across both sources: a G2 reviewer names batch edits, bulk component creation and editing past incidents as clunky, components are updated through incidents rather than directly, and a 2026 r/sysadmin subscriber describes the interface and its wording as clunky
  • The free plan has hard ceilings worth knowing before you plan around it: 200 subscribers, a public page only, no custom domain and one week of logs behind 50 components

Score breakdown

Features 4.5
Ease of use 4.5
Value for money 4.0
Support 3.5

Pricing

Starter

$0 free forever, no card required

  • 15 monitors at 2-minute checks, email alerts only, 5 team members, 2 on-call members, 50 components and groups, 1 week of logs and screenshots
  • Public status pages only, no custom domain, 200 subscribers — the free plan is capped at 50 components where several competitors put no cap on them
  • Genuinely needs no card and has no stated time limit; the site advertises it as a free forever plan that takes about 30 seconds to start

Pro

$20 per month billed monthly, or $15 a month billed yearly at $180 a year

  • The public-page price, and the number every other review quotes. The same tier is $50 a month for a private status page ($37.50 billed yearly) and $100 a month for an audience-selected page ($75 billed yearly)
  • 50 monitors at 30-second checks, 1,000 components and groups, 5,000 subscribers, 50 team members, 20 on-call members, 1+ custom domain, 3 months of logs and screenshots
  • Email and SMS alerts and all eight check types; no SAML SSO and no phone-call alerts — those start at Business

Private Pro

$50 per month billed monthly, or $37.50 a month billed yearly at $450 a year

  • The same Pro allowances with a status page that is not public: magic-link login, IP allowlisting, a single password or secure links
  • Two and a half times the public-page price for the same monitors, subscribers and components — the private page is the feature that moved up in the 2026 pricing change
  • The switch on the pricing table moves the middle card between these three variants, and each one re-prices the card

Select (audience-selected page)

$100 per month billed monthly, or $75 a month billed yearly at $900 a year

  • The same Pro allowances with a status page restricted to a chosen audience rather than the public or a single password
  • Five times the public-page price for the same monitors, subscribers and components
  • The status page type is chosen with the switch on the pricing table, and the price card follows it — the three Pro variants are $20, $50 and $100 a month billed monthly

Business

$300 per month billed monthly, or $225 a month billed yearly at $2,700 a year

  • 1,000 monitors, unlimited team members, 50 on-call members, SMS and phone-call alerts, SAML SSO, 1 year of logs and screenshots, 25,000 subscribers
  • 3 pages of any type are included under one subscription, so it is the first tier where a private or audience-selected page is not billed twice
  • One subscription covers up to 3 pages of any type; beyond that the vendor points at Enterprise, and the Business price is a 15x step from Pro at $20

Enterprise

Custom annual contract, quoted by the vendor

  • SCIM directory sync, priority customer support, a published 99.99% uptime SLA, multiple SSO connections, custom contracts and custom policies
  • Custom monitor counts, custom on-call seats, custom log retention and multiple custom status pages under one contract
  • Wire transfer becomes available here and on Business; both are quoted by the vendor rather than bought from the pricing page

Who it is for

  • Small teams that want the status page and basic uptime monitoring on one bill instead of a status page plus Pingdom or UptimeRobot
  • Anyone whose status page stays public, because that is where the advertised $20 a month, or $15 billed yearly, is the real price for custom domains, SMS alerts and 5,000 subscribers
  • Teams that already live in Slack, Microsoft Teams or Discord, since incident updates and subscriber notifications go into those tools rather than only into email
  • Non-profit organisations and open-source projects, which can email the vendor for a free Pro account
  • Buyers who want to prove the product on their own services first: the free plan is permanent, needs no card and already includes working monitoring
  • Businesses that need SAML SSO, phone-call alerts, a year of logs or 25,000 subscribers, where Business at $225 a month billed yearly is the tier that has them and covers 3 pages

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