Instatus
Fast, cheap status pages with an unusually generous free tier.
Where Instatus fits
Instatus competes almost entirely on page speed and price. The public pages are static and load very quickly, the free tier is usable for a real product rather than a trial, and the paid tiers undercut the incumbents by a wide margin. The trade-off is a smaller surface area: fewer enterprise controls, and a smaller integration catalogue than the Atlassian ecosystem offers.
Best for
Small teams who want a credible public status page without a per-subscriber bill.
Watch out for
Enterprise procurement checkboxes (SSO, audit logs, DPAs) are thinner than the incumbents'.
Instatus pricing
Pricing
Not yet verified. We have not independently confirmed this against the vendor since the last pricing change. Check the vendor page before relying on it.
Instatus features
Verified as supported
- Custom domain
- Remove vendor branding
- Per-component status
- Scheduled maintenance
- Email subscribers
- SMS notifications
- Slack notifications
- Webhooks
- RSS / Atom feed
- Embeddable widget
- Private status pages
- Public API
Verified as not supported
- Self-hostable
| Feature | Instatus |
|---|---|
| Custom domainServe the status page on your own domain, e.g. status.example.com. | Yes |
| Remove vendor brandingWhether the vendor's own branding can be removed from the public page. | Yes |
| Per-component statusBreak the page into individual services or components with independent states. | Yes |
| Scheduled maintenanceAnnounce planned windows in advance and notify subscribers. | Yes |
| Email subscribersLet customers subscribe to incident updates by email. | Yes |
| SMS notificationsDeliver incident updates over SMS. | Yes |
| Slack notificationsPush incident updates into a Slack workspace. | Yes |
| WebhooksFire an HTTP callback when incident state changes. | Yes |
| RSS / Atom feedMachine-readable incident feed. | Yes |
| Embeddable widgetDrop a live status badge or banner into your own app. | Yes |
| Private status pagesRestrict the page to authenticated or invited viewers. | Yes |
| Audience-specific pagesShow different components to different customer segments. | Not verified |
| Built-in uptime monitoringThe tool can detect outages itself, rather than only displaying states you set manually. | Not verified |
| Public APICreate and update incidents programmatically. | Yes |
| SSO / SAMLSingle sign-on for your internal team members. | Not verified |
| Self-hostableSource available and deployable on your own infrastructure. | No |
Yes supported · No not supported · not yet verified by us (we show a dash rather than guessing).