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.

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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 comparison
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).

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