Pulsetic vs Sorry
Pulsetic uptime monitoring with notably polished status pages, aimed at small teams. Sorry a status-page-only tool that treats incident comms as the product. Here is how they actually differ.
Verdict in one line each
Pulsetic
Choose it if: Small teams that want an attractive status page without design work.
Watch out: A younger product, so enterprise controls and the integration catalogue are still limited relative to the incumbents.
Sorry
Choose it if: Teams with monitoring already solved who only need the customer-facing comms layer.
Watch out: No built-in detection. Something else has to tell it an incident started.
Differences that actually matter
- Built-in uptime monitoring: Pulsetic supports it, Sorry does not.
Not yet verified for both: scheduled maintenance, rss / atom feed, embeddable widget, private status pages, audience-specific pages, public api, sso / saml. We leave these blank rather than guessing.
Full feature comparison
Rows where the two tools differ are highlighted.
| Feature | Pulsetic | Sorry |
|---|---|---|
| Custom domainServe the status page on your own domain, e.g. status.example.com. | Yes | Yes |
| Remove vendor brandingWhether the vendor's own branding can be removed from the public page. | Yes | Yes |
| Per-component statusBreak the page into individual services or components with independent states. | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled maintenanceAnnounce planned windows in advance and notify subscribers. | Not verified | Yes |
| Email subscribersLet customers subscribe to incident updates by email. | Yes | Yes |
| SMS notificationsDeliver incident updates over SMS. | Yes | Yes |
| Slack notificationsPush incident updates into a Slack workspace. | Yes | Yes |
| WebhooksFire an HTTP callback when incident state changes. | Yes | Yes |
| RSS / Atom feedMachine-readable incident feed. | Not verified | Yes |
| Embeddable widgetDrop a live status badge or banner into your own app. | Not verified | Yes |
| Private status pagesRestrict the page to authenticated or invited viewers. | Not verified | Not verified |
| Audience-specific pagesShow different components to different customer segments. | Not verified | Not verified |
| Built-in uptime monitoringThe tool can detect outages itself, rather than only displaying states you set manually. | Yes | No |
| Public APICreate and update incidents programmatically. | Not verified | Yes |
| SSO / SAMLSingle sign-on for your internal team members. | Not verified | Not verified |
| Self-hostableSource available and deployable on your own infrastructure. | No | No |
Yes supported · No not supported · not yet verified by us (we show a dash rather than guessing).
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.
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.
What each one looks like
Common questions
Do Pulsetic and Sorry include uptime monitoring?
Pulsetic includes its own uptime monitoring; Sorry does not monitor for you and relies on an external source to open incidents. If you already run a monitoring stack, a bundled monitor is overlap rather than value; if you do not, buying both separately usually costs more.
Can Pulsetic or Sorry be self-hosted?
Neither is self-hostable; both are hosted services. If keeping incident data in-house is a hard requirement, look at an open-source option instead.
What is the main difference between Pulsetic and Sorry?
On verified features: Pulsetic supports built-in uptime monitoring and Sorry does not. Beyond the checklist, a younger product, so enterprise controls and the integration catalogue are still limited relative to the incumbents.
Which is cheaper, Pulsetic or Sorry?
Pricing in this category moves often and both vendors meter different things, so we link to the live pricing pages rather than quoting figures we have not re-verified. The variable that usually decides it is subscriber count: tools that charge per notified subscriber get expensive at exactly the point your product starts working.