Best Status Page Software in 2026: 7 Tools Compared

The best status page software in 2026 is Hyperping for teams that want monitoring, on-call, and a branded status page on one flat plan, Instatus for the best-looking page per dollar, Better Stack for teams that also want logs, Atlassian Statuspage for companies already on Jira, incident.io for Slack-first incident response, Uptime Kuma if you can self-host, and UptimeRobot for a free page next to cheap checks.

I checked every price on this page against the vendors' own pricing pages on October 29, 2026. If you are already on Atlassian Statuspage and want to leave, the Atlassian Statuspage alternatives guide is written for that move.

Key takeaways

• Hyperping starts at $24/month billed yearly ($29 monthly) for a status page with a custom domain, 100 subscribers, 50 monitors with 30-second checks, on-call, and 3 seats. The Free plan has 1 basic status page.
• Instatus Pro costs $20/month, or $15 billed yearly, for a custom domain, 5,000 subscribers, and 50 monitors. Private pages and SAML SSO need Business at $300/month.
• Better Stack gives 1 status page and 10 monitors free, then bills each responder ($29/month billed yearly) and each extra page ($12). A password-protected page is $42/month on its own.
• Atlassian Statuspage has a free plan for 100 subscribers, then $29 to $1,499/month for public pages and $79/month and up for private pages. It has no monitoring of its own.
• Uptime Kuma costs nothing but a server, and goes down with it.

Top picks at a glance

How to choose status page software

These are the seven things that separate the tools in practice:

• Price as you grow: some tools charge per status page, per subscriber tier, or per responder. Work out what your second page and your tenth teammate will cost, not just the entry price.
• Hosting that survives your outage: the page has to stay up when your own infrastructure is down, so it should run on the vendor's infrastructure, not yours.
• Custom domain and branding: status.yourcompany.com with your logo builds more trust than a vendor subdomain. Most tools keep custom domains for paid plans.
• Subscriber notifications: email at a minimum, plus Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, or webhooks if your customers live there. Check the subscriber cap of each plan.
• Incident and maintenance workflow: posting updates, scheduling maintenance, and changing component status from one screen during a stressful hour.
• Private pages: internal or client-only pages behind a password, email codes, or SSO. This is where prices diverge the most.
• Built-in monitoring: a tool that runs its own checks can update the page when a check fails. Atlassian Statuspage and incident.io need a separate monitoring tool.

Feature comparison (as of October 2026)

"Not verified" means the vendor's pricing page didn't say on October 29, 2026. It does not mean the feature is missing.

Status page software pricing (as of October 2026)

Sources: Hyperping pricing, Instatus pricing, Better Stack pricing, Atlassian Statuspage pricing, incident.io pricing, UptimeRobot pricing, all read on October 29, 2026. Instatus no longer shows the Business price on its page; $300/month ($225 billed yearly) is the last published figure.

Free status page tools

If you need a free status page, you have seven real options as of October 2026. Every hosted free plan gives you one page; they differ on custom domains, subscribers, and whether anything checks your services.

How to pick between them:

• You want the page to update by itself: pick a free plan with monitoring. Hyperping, Instatus, Better Stack, and UptimeRobot all run checks, so a failing service shows up without anyone typing an update. Statuspage and incident.io free pages are updated by hand or through another tool.
• You want customers to subscribe: Atlassian Statuspage (100) and Instatus (200) let visitors subscribe on the free plan. Hyperping starts subscribers on Essentials, at 100.
• You need status.yourcompany.com for free: incident.io Basic, Better Stack, or a self-hosted Uptime Kuma. Everyone else charges for it.
• You don't want to run a server: skip Uptime Kuma. A status page on the same machine as your app goes down with it.

Hyperping's free status page is a good fit for a side project or an early product: one basic page on a hyperping.app address, 20 monitors, no credit card. The step-by-step guide to creating a free status page takes about 5 minutes. When you need your own domain and subscriber notifications, Essentials adds both for $24/month billed yearly.

1. Hyperping

Best for

Teams that want uptime monitoring, on-call, and a status page in one product, at a price that doesn't move with every teammate or page.

Notable features

• Monitoring that drives the page: HTTP, keyword, port, ping, SSL, DNS, cron job (healthcheck), and Playwright browser checks (run from Frankfurt and San Francisco). Checks run every 30 seconds on paid plans and every 20 seconds on Business.
• Status page features by plan: custom domain and 100 subscribers on Essentials; 3 public or private pages, 1,000 subscribers, SMS subscribers (with your own Twilio account), email access codes, and multilingual pages on Pro; 10 pages, white labeling, a custom email sender, and SSO for page visitors on Business (SSO connections are billed separately).
• Subscriber channels: email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, SMS from Pro, plus RSS and Atom feeds.
• On-call and escalation: schedules, rotations, and multi-step escalation policies on every paid plan, with phone call alerts.
• Statuspage import: a built-in importer brings over incidents and maintenance history from Atlassian Statuspage.
• EU hosting: data is stored in the EU, in ISO 27001-certified data centers.

Where Hyperping falls short

Hyperping is not an observability platform. Logs are included (5 GB a month on Essentials), but there is no APM or tracing like Datadog. Browser checks run from two locations only. The Free plan's page is basic: no custom domain and no subscribers until Essentials, and private pages start on Pro.

What users say

"What we absolutely love about Hyperping is their beautifully designed status page. We made it publicly available and it became a crucial part of our sales pitches."

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Pricing (October 2026)

• Free: 1 basic status page, 20 monitors with 5-minute checks, 1 seat
• Essentials: $24/month billed yearly ($29 monthly). 1 status page with custom domain, 100 subscribers, 50 monitors, 3 browser checks, on-call, 3 seats
• Pro: $74/month billed yearly ($89 monthly). 3 public or private status pages, 1,000 subscribers, multilingual pages, 250 monitors, 10 seats
• Business: $249/month billed yearly ($299 monthly). 10 status pages, white labeling, 1,000 monitors, 20-second checks, 20 seats

Extra seats cost $7, $9, or $12 a month depending on the plan. See the status page features or start a 14-day trial.

2. Instatus

Best for

Teams whose first priority is a fast, good-looking public page at a low price.

Notable features

• Static pages on a CDN: Instatus pages are generated ahead of time, which keeps them fast and online when your own servers are down.
• Deep customization: custom CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, plus widgets (floating badge, footer badge, Intercom).
• Built-in checks: website, API, ping, TCP, UDP, and DNS monitors, every 2 minutes on Starter and every 30 seconds on Pro.
• Many languages: more than 30 page languages.
• Integrations: Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Pingdom, Grafana, Zapier, and webhooks to update components from your existing monitoring.

Where Instatus falls short

Monitoring is basic: no browser checks, no cron job monitoring, and 50 monitors on Pro. Private pages and SAML SSO sit on Business, a jump from $20 to $300 a month. Several reviewers mention slow support, which comes with a very small team.

Pricing (October 2026)

• Starter (free): 1 public page, 15 monitors, 5 team members, 200 subscribers
• Pro: $20/month, or $15 billed yearly. 1 custom domain, 50 monitors, 50 team members, 5,000 subscribers
• Business: $300/month ($225 billed yearly, last published price). 1,000 monitors, 3 custom domains, 25,000 subscribers, private pages, SAML SSO

For a side-by-side with Hyperping, see Instatus vs Hyperping.

3. Better Stack

Best for

Engineering teams that want status pages in the same product as logs, uptime checks, and incident management.

Notable features

• Monitoring and logs together: uptime checks, heartbeats, Playwright browser checks, and log management with SQL-style queries.
• Incident management: on-call schedules, escalation, and Slack-based incident workflows.
• Status pages: a free page on your own subdomain, with paid add-ons for extra pages, password protection, SSO, and white labeling.

Where Better Stack falls short

The bill grows in several directions at once. As of October 2026, each responder costs $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly), each extra page $12 ($15), a password-protected page $42 ($50), and SSO or white labeling $208 ($250) per page. Five paid responders plus one password-protected page come to about $187 a month billed yearly ($145 + $42), before any monitor add-ons.

Pricing (October 2026)

• Free: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page
• Responders: $29/month each billed yearly, $34 monthly. Team members who don't respond are free
• Add-ons: 50 monitors $21/month, extra page $12/month, password page $42/month, SSO page $208/month (all billed yearly)

4. Atlassian Statuspage

Best for

Companies already running Jira Service Management and Atlassian accounts, where procurement and SSO through Atlassian Guard are already in place.

Notable features

• The industry default: many large vendors run their public page on Statuspage, so customers know the layout.
• Separate products for each audience: public pages, private pages for employees, and audience-specific pages for groups of customers.
• Metrics on the page: system metrics from Datadog, New Relic, and other tools can be displayed next to components.

Where Statuspage falls short

Statuspage does not monitor anything. You need a separate monitoring tool and an integration to update components, or someone updates them by hand. Private pages are a separate product starting at $79/month and, per Atlassian's documentation, cannot use a custom domain. Opsgenie, the Atlassian alerting tool often paired with it, shuts down on April 5, 2027.

Pricing (October 2026)

• Public pages: Free (100 subscribers, 2 team members), Hobby $29/month (250 subscribers, custom domain), Startup $99, Business $399 (custom CSS, HTML, and JS), Enterprise $1,499
• Private pages: Starter $79/month (50 employees), Growth $249, Corporate $599, Enterprise $1,499
• Audience-specific pages: from $300/month

Comparing Statuspage against other tools for a migration? The Atlassian Statuspage alternatives guide goes plan by plan.

5. incident.io

Best for

Teams that run incidents in Slack and want the status page to update from the incident channel.

Notable features

• Slack-native incidents: declare incidents, assign roles, and post updates from Slack, with the status page following.
• Workflows: automated routing, escalation, and stakeholder updates.
• Status pages on every plan: one public page on Basic, Team, and Pro, plus an internal page on Pro.

Where incident.io falls short

There is no monitoring, so you still need a tool that detects the outage. Pricing is per user, and on-call is an add-on: a 15-person team on Team with on-call pays 15 x ($15 + $10) = $375 a month billed yearly. Customer-specific pages and more than one public page need Enterprise.

Pricing (October 2026)

• Basic (free): 1 public status page, single-team on-call
• Team: $15/user/month billed yearly ($19 monthly), on-call +$10/user/month
• Pro: $25/user/month, on-call +$20/user/month, 1 public and 1 internal page
• Enterprise: custom pricing

6. Uptime Kuma

Best for

Developers and homelabs who want monitoring and status pages for free and are happy to run the server.

Notable features

• Around 20 monitor types: HTTP, keyword, TCP, ping, DNS, Docker containers, databases, and more, down to 20-second intervals.
• 90+ notification services: Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, Pushover, Gotify, and many others.
• Several status pages on your own domain.
• Light to run: a single Docker container, even on a Raspberry Pi.

Where Uptime Kuma falls short

If your server goes down, your monitoring and your status page go with it. Checks come from one location, so you can't tell a regional outage from a local one. There are no teams, roles, or SSO, and you handle updates, backups, and security patches.

Pricing

Free and open source. Hosting typically costs a few dollars a month on a small VPS.

7. UptimeRobot

Best for

Small teams that mostly need cheap uptime checks and want a simple public page alongside them.

Notable features

• 50 free monitors with 5-minute checks and a basic status page.
• Many pages on paid plans: 3 on Solo, 100 on Team, and no page cap on Scale.

Where UptimeRobot falls short

No on-call schedules, escalation policies, or browser checks. The status pages are simpler than dedicated tools, with fewer incident and subscriber options.

Pricing (October 2026, as displayed from Europe)

• Free: 50 monitors, 5-minute checks, 1 status page
• Solo: $9/month billed yearly ($10 monthly). 10 monitors, 60-second checks, 3 status pages
• Team: $30/month billed yearly ($35 monthly). 100 monitors, 30-second checks, 100 status pages

Other status page tools worth knowing

What is a status page?

A status page tells your users whether your website, API, and other services work right now, and what you're doing about it when they don't. It shows the current status of each component, open incidents with timestamped updates, planned maintenance, and uptime history.

Teams set one up for three reasons: fewer "is it down?" tickets during an outage, a place to point customers before they ask, and an uptime record prospects can check. Why you need a status page goes deeper on each.

Public pages are for customers. Private pages sit behind a password, email codes, or SSO, for employees or specific clients. Public vs private status pages explains when you need both.

How to test status page software

1. Shortlist two tools from the tables above based on budget and whether you need built-in monitoring.
2. Build a page with your real services on each free plan or trial, with your logo and your component names.
3. Simulate an incident: take a test endpoint down and time how long each tool takes to update the page and notify a test subscriber.
4. Price your next year: add the second page, the private page, and the teammates you'll have in 12 months, then compare the bills.

If Hyperping is on your shortlist, the Free plan needs no credit card and paid plans come with a 14-day trial.

Related reading

• Best Atlassian Statuspage alternatives: leaving Statuspage, plan by plan
• Statuspage vs Hyperping: feature comparison
• Instatus vs Hyperping: feature comparison
• How to create a free status page: step-by-step setup
• Incident communication templates: what to write during an outage
• Status pages hub: all our status page resources