Status.io vs Statuspage: 2026 Status Page Comparison

If you're comparing Status.io and Statuspage, you are choosing between two status-page-only products that were both launched in the early 2010s and that both leave outage detection to another tool. The pricing models differ more than the feature lists do.

Status.io sells one public page per plan and stacks features by tier: $79, $149, or $349 a month, with private mode, SSO, and custom code reserved for the top tier. Statuspage, owned by Atlassian, keeps a free plan and a $29 entry point, then runs three separate price lists for public, private, and audience-specific pages.

Hyperping belongs in the comparison because it removes the monitoring line from the budget. The status page, the uptime checks behind it, and on-call ship on the same flat plan, from $24 a month billed annually. It does not offer custom HTML or JavaScript injection, and it caps pages per plan rather than selling them one by one.

This guide compares all three across seven dimensions: public and private pages, subscribers, components, SSO, custom domains, integrated monitoring, and price per page and per seat. Figures come from the three vendors' published pricing pages, captured on September 16, 2026.

Why you should trust this guide

I'm Léo, founder of Hyperping, so I have a stake in one of these tools. I have also watched teams pick Statuspage because their incident process already lived in Jira Service Management, and pick Status.io because they wanted containers and location maps for a multi-region product. Both choices can be right.

Where a claim comes from a vendor's pricing page, I quote the plan and the number so you can check it. Status.io has very few public reviews, which I say plainly rather than padding with vague sentiment. If a figure changes after publication, the pricing pages linked here are the source of truth.

Summary

Quick verdict

Choose Statuspage if you want the lowest entry price for a public page, a free tier to start on, or an incident workflow that already runs through Jira Service Management and Atlassian Guard. Hobby at $29 gives you a custom domain and 250 subscribers. Be ready for a second subscription the day you need a private page.

Choose Status.io if you want containers, component-level subscriptions, a location map, and status automation on every plan, and you would rather pay $79 flat than climb Statuspage's public ladder. Budget $349 for the Plus plan if private mode, SSO, or custom code is a requirement.

Choose Hyperping if the status page should update itself. Monitors, on-call, and pages share one plan, private pages start on Pro, and there is one price list instead of three. Skip it if you need custom HTML or JavaScript on the page, or more than 10 pages.

Public and private pages

Both incumbents treat "how many pages" and "who can see them" as the main pricing levers. Hyperping treats them as plan limits.

Status.io includes one public status page on every plan, from Basic at $79 to Plus at $349. The pricing page does not list a price for a second page, so a team that wants two brands or two products on separate pages should ask sales before assuming one subscription covers it. Private mode arrives on Plus, in two flavors: authenticated users through an OIDC or SAML identity provider, or a predefined list of IP addresses.

Statuspage keeps three price lists. Public pages run from a free plan through Hobby at $29, Startup at $99, Business at $399, and Enterprise at $1,499. Private pages have their own ladder, from Starter at $79 for 50 authenticated users to Corporate at $599 for 1,000. Audience-specific pages, which show different components to different user groups, start at $300. Each page is its own subscription, so a public page for customers plus a private page for employees is two bills. The Statuspage pricing breakdown walks through each ladder in detail.

Hyperping puts public and private pages on the same list. Essentials includes 1 page, Pro includes 3 that can each be public or private, and Business includes 10. Private access on Pro uses a shared password or email access codes sent to allowed domains. Google sign-in and SAML SSO for visitors require Business. Each page can hold sections and nested groups, which covers most of the "different components for different audiences" need without a separate product, though a true per-user view like Statuspage's audience-specific pages is not offered.

Subscribers and notifications

Subscriber counts drive tier changes at both incumbents. Check the channel list too, because SMS is handled very differently.

Status.io includes component subscriptions on every plan, so a subscriber can follow only the API component and ignore the marketing site. SMS is available from Standard, but Status.io sends it through a Twilio or Vonage account you supply, so message costs sit on your telecom bill rather than on the Status.io invoice. Standard also adds ChatOps broadcasts to IRC, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.

Statuspage counts subscribers as the main tier variable. Hobby caps at 250, Startup at 1,000, Business at 5,000. SMS and webhook notifications require Startup at $99, and per-component subscriptions require Business at $399. Reviewers on Statuspage's G2 profile repeatedly point out that the bill grows with the subscriber list while the product stays the same.

Hyperping includes 100 subscribers on Essentials and 1,000 on Pro, and the Business column of the pricing grid shows no subscriber cap. Subscribers can pick email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or SMS, and like Status.io, SMS delivery runs through your own Twilio account. Subscriptions apply to the whole page; a published per-component subscription option is not part of the product today. Email subscribers can be bulk-imported, and the team will help with large lists.

Components, containers, and automation

The component model decides how much of an incident you can express on the page, and how much of it a machine can express for you.

Status.io's containers are the distinctive piece. A container can act as a sub-component or as a location and can be linked to several components at once, so a CDN outage in one region can flag every component that depends on it. Status automation on every plan links Pingdom, Datadog, New Relic, UptimeRobot, StatusCake, Site24x7, Zabbix, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, Nagios, Uptime.com, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or Jira Service Management to a component's status.

Statuspage has component groups, incident templates, and a REST API, and it caps components at 25 on the free plan. Metrics are the other tier variable: two on Free, five on Hobby, up to 50 on Enterprise. Automation comes from integrations or from an API call, which usually means an engineer wires the monitoring tool to the page and keeps that glue working.

Hyperping's components are monitors first. A service on the page is a monitor, and its status changes when the check fails and confirms across regions. Manual components exist for dependencies you cannot check, and healthcheck components cover cron jobs that ping in. A JSON API, RSS and Atom feeds, and an embeddable status badge cover the machine-readable side.

SSO and team access

Status.io bundles team SSO, visitor SSO, IP access control, and the audit trail into Plus. If any of those is a hard requirement, the price is $349 whatever your subscriber count.

Statuspage runs identity through Atlassian accounts, and every team member needs one. Team SSO starts on Startup, and private pages authenticate visitors with SAML 2.0 against Okta and similar providers. Several low-rated G2 reviews describe the Atlassian account system as more work than the page itself, especially for teams that do not otherwise use Jira or Confluence.

Hyperping separates the two. Dashboard SSO for your own team starts on Pro for Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace, KeyHub, and JumpCloud. Visitor SSO on a private page is a Business feature billed per connection: $49 a month for Microsoft Entra ID, $99 for Okta, Google, and other SAML or OIDC providers. Password and email-code protection carry no per-connection fee.

Custom domains and branding

Status.io includes a custom domain on Basic and holds the branding toggle, custom CSS, and a dedicated certificate for Standard. Custom HTML, JavaScript, your own TLS certificate, and custom HTTP headers require Plus.

Statuspage includes the custom domain from Hobby at $29, which is cheaper than either competitor for that one feature. Custom CSS starts on Startup at $99 and full CSS, HTML, and JavaScript control starts on Business at $399.

Hyperping includes an HTTPS custom domain on every paid plan and offers logo, color, and font controls everywhere. Hiding the "Powered by Hyperping" footer and sending subscriber emails from your own domain are Business features. There is no CSS, HTML, or JavaScript injection, so teams that want a fully bespoke page layout should pick Status.io Plus or Statuspage Business.

Integrated monitoring

This is the dimension where the three products split cleanly.

Neither Status.io nor Statuspage checks whether your API responds. Status.io's "external service monitoring" displays the health of providers such as a cloud host on your page; it is not a probe of your own endpoints. Status automation is the mechanism for turning a Pingdom or Datadog alert into a component status change, and it works well, but the monitoring subscription is yours to buy and the integration is yours to maintain.

Statuspage is in the same position and says so. Automation comes from Opsgenie, Jira Service Management, or a monitoring tool's integration, and outage detection is priced elsewhere.

Hyperping runs the checks. Monitors poll from 18 regions every 30 seconds on Essentials and Pro and every 20 seconds on Business, a first failure triggers a cross-region confirmation, and a confirmed outage flips the linked component and opens an incident that subscribers hear about. Escalation policies and on-call schedules ship on the same plan, so the person who fixes the outage and the page that explains it come from one subscription.

Pricing per page and per seat

Status.io prices features by tier with team members and subscribers as the caps. Statuspage prices pages by type with subscribers and team members as the caps. Hyperping prices capacity by plan, with seats beyond the included allowance billed per user.

Status.io:

Annual billing takes 5% off. There is no free plan.

Statuspage public pages:

Private pages are $79 (Starter, 50 authenticated users), $249 (Growth, 300), $599 (Corporate, 1,000), and $1,499 (Enterprise, 5,000). Audience-specific pages start at $300. Yearly billing goes through Atlassian support rather than self-serve.

Hyperping is $29, $89, or $299 monthly, or $24, $74, or $249 on annual billing. Essentials includes 2 seats, Pro 8, and Business 20; additional seats cost $7, $9, or $12 a month. A SAML connection for a private page adds $49 or $99 a month on Business.

Three scenarios at published monthly rates, with Hyperping on annual billing:

The first row is where Statuspage wins on price, because Startup covers SMS and 1,000 subscribers for $99 while Status.io needs Standard. Hyperping is cheapest and also includes 250 monitors, but it stops at 1,000 subscribers on Pro, so a page with more subscribers moves to Business at $249.

The second row assumes Status.io's Plus plan can serve the private audience from the single included page, which the pricing page implies but does not spell out; confirm with sales before budgeting. Hyperping's figure uses email access codes rather than SAML. With a SAML connection the Hyperping line becomes $298 to $348 on Business.

The third row shows the ceiling of each model. Statuspage's separate lists compound, Status.io flattens everything into $349, and Hyperping's Business plan covers 10 pages, white labeling, IP allowlisting, and 1,000 monitors before the per-connection SSO fee.

Where Hyperping doesn't compete

If the page needs injected HTML or JavaScript, per-component subscriptions, a geographic status map, or a per-user audience view, pick Status.io or Statuspage. If your incident process is built on Jira Service Management and Atlassian Guard, Statuspage's native fit is hard to replace. Hyperping does not offer those capabilities.

What reviewers say

Status.io has a thin public review record. Its G2 profile holds 5 reviews averaging 4.7 out of 5 as of September 2026, and the praise is consistent: "super easy to setup and connect to any hosted system or web app," "a straightforward user interface" that "doesn't have feature bloat." That sample is too small to draw a pattern of complaints from, and I would treat any confident claim about Status.io sentiment with suspicion. On StackShare, Statuspage is listed in 373 stacks against 23 for Status.io, which is the clearest public signal of relative adoption.

Statuspage's G2 profile is large enough to show patterns. The recurring praise is reliability and simplicity during an incident. The recurring complaints are subscriber-based pricing that grows with the customer base, the mandatory Atlassian account system, and premium prices for a tool that only communicates. The Statuspage pricing guide quotes several of those reviews with dates.

Status.io alternatives

Search interest in "Status.io alternatives" is small but steady, and the answer is short enough to keep in this guide rather than in a separate list.

• Statuspage is the closest like-for-like replacement: same page-only model, a free plan, a $29 entry point, and the Atlassian integrations. Expect separate bills for private and audience-specific pages.
• Hyperping replaces Status.io plus the monitoring tool feeding it. Pages from $24 a month annually with 50 monitors on the same plan, private pages on Pro, and on-call included. The Statuspage vs Hyperping comparison covers the same trade-offs from the Atlassian side.
• Instatus fits public-only pages on a small budget, with fast page loads and multi-language support. It has basic monitoring but no on-call.
• Uptime Kuma fits teams that can self-host: free, with monitoring and a simple status page, and no vendor to pay.
• Better Stack fits teams that also want logs and traces next to the page, at the cost of per-page add-ons for white labeling and SSO.

The best Statuspage alternatives guide evaluates the wider field, and most of it applies to Status.io as well.

How to use Hyperping for a status page that updates itself

1. Import or build the page

If you are leaving Statuspage, the built-in importer brings over components, groups, and incident history from your page URL. Otherwise, add services to a new page, organize them into sections, and add manual components for dependencies you do not check.

2. Add the monitors behind each component

Create an HTTP, port, ping, DNS, or keyword check for each service and pick the regions closest to your users. A first failure triggers a cross-region confirmation before the component changes status, which keeps a single flaky region from flagging an outage.

3. Point your domain and choose who can see the page

Add a CNAME for your status domain and HTTPS is provisioned automatically. On Pro, switch a page to private with a password or email access codes; on Business, attach a SAML connection for visitor SSO.

4. Open subscriptions

Turn on email, Slack, Teams, and SMS subscriptions, import your existing subscriber list, and set the sending domain on Business so notifications carry your brand.

5. Route the alert to a person

Create an escalation policy and an on-call schedule so the outage that just appeared on the page also reaches whoever is on rotation, by Slack, SMS, or phone call.

Which one fits your team

Testing before you commit

Status.io has no free plan, so testing means a paid month on Basic at $79. Use it to check whether one page covers your audiences and whether your monitoring tool is on the status automation list.

Statuspage Free covers one public page, 100 subscribers, and two team members with no time limit. Test the incident flow, then price the plan that includes SMS or the private page you will eventually need.

Hyperping's free plan covers 20 monitors and one hosted status page with no time limit, and every paid plan has a trial. Point the monitors at the same endpoints your current tool watches and compare when the page changes.

If you want a status page with the monitoring and on-call behind it on one plan, try Hyperping free or book a demo.