Comparing status page providers
Everything below was read off each vendor’s own public pricing page, and every row links to its source. Where a vendor doesn’t publish something, this page says “not published” rather than guessing.
First, how each one charges
This matters more than the headline price, because it determines what happens to your bill as you grow. It is also the part that rarely changes.
Atlassian Statuspage
Their pricing page ↗Three separately priced product lines — public pages, private pages and audience-specific pages — each metering subscribers and team members per tier.
Better Stack
Their pricing page ↗A free base plan plus usage-based add-ons. Status-page capabilities are priced per page, per feature, and they stack.
Instatus
Their pricing page ↗Four tiers, with SAML SSO and non-public pages both landing on the same upper tier.
Status.io
Their pricing page ↗Four tiers; the audit trail, SSO and private mode all arrive together on the third.
A low base price plus account-level upgrades and per-page add-ons.
IsItStillUp
One price per plan. Subscribers and teammates are unlimited on every paid plan, monitoring is included from Free, and there are no per-page or per-feature add-ons — the number on the plan is the number on the invoice.
Where the features land
The tier or add-on at which each capability first becomes available. This is the table people wish they had read before migrating, because it is what you discover on the day you need single sign-on.
| Capability | Statuspage | Better Stack | Instatus | IsItStillUp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAML single sign-on | Startup, $99/mo | $250/page/mo add-on | Business, $300/mo | Business, $29/mo |
| Private / password-protected page | Separate line, from $79/mo | $50/page/mo add-on | Business, $300/mo | Pro, $15/mo |
| Remove vendor branding | Business, $399/mo | $250/page/mo add-on | Not published | Pro, $15/mo |
| IP allowlisting | Not published | $250/page/mo add-on | Not published | Pro, $15/mo |
| Component-level subscriptions | Business, $399/mo | Not published | Not published | Free |
| Role-based access control | Business, $399/mo | Not published | Not published | Free |
| Uptime monitoring of your services | Not offered — see note | 10 free, then $25/mo per 50 | Not published | Free |
| Email subscribers | Metered per tier | 1,000, then $40/mo per 1,000 | Metered per tier | Starter, $5/mo |
“Not published” means the vendor’s pricing page does not state it either way — not that the feature is absent. Where we could not confirm something, we left it out rather than inferring it.
The figures, with sources
Each statement below is what the vendor's own pricing page said on the date at the top of this page.
Public status pages run Free ($0, 100 subscribers, 2 team members), Hobby $29/mo, Startup $99/mo, Business $399/mo (5,000 subscribers, 25 team members) and Enterprise $1,499/mo (25,000 subscribers, 50 team members).
From the page: “Business $399 /month … 5,000 subscribers, 25 team members”
Private status pages are a second, separately priced line: Starter $79/mo (50 authenticated subscribers) through Enterprise $1,499/mo (5,000 authenticated subscribers).
From the page: “Starter $79 /month … 50 authenticated subscribers”
Audience-specific pages are a third separately priced line, starting at $300/mo. No upper price is published.
From the page: “Starting at $300 /month”
Statuspage does not monitor your services itself. Atlassian's documentation states it "does not do any direct monitoring of your websites or servers" — status comes from third-party monitoring integrations or its API.
From the page: “does not do any direct monitoring of your websites or servers”
On public pages, component-level subscriptions first appear at Business ($399/mo), and role-based access control also first appears at Business ($399/mo).
From the page: “Business $399 /month … Component subscriptions”
SMS notifications on public pages first appear at Startup ($99/mo); the $29/mo Hobby tier is email-only. Notification volume is unlimited on all plans.
From the page: “Startup comes with Email, SMS, and Webhook Notifications”
There are no named paid status-page tiers. The free plan includes 10 monitors and 1 status page; each additional public status page is $15/mo ($12 billed yearly), and each additional 1,000 subscribers is $40/mo.
From the page: “Additional public status page — $15 per month”
White-label, single sign-on, IP allowlisting and sending notification email from your own domain are four separate add-ons, each $250 per page per month ($208 billed yearly), applied per page and per feature.
From the page: “Single Sign-On | $250 per page per month | $208 per page per month”
Password protection is the cheaper access-control option at $50 per page per month ($42 billed yearly). Custom CSS and JavaScript is $15 per page per month.
From the page: “Password authentication | $50 per page per month”
Seats are paid: a Responder with Uptime and Telemetry access is $34/user/month billed monthly, or $29/user/month billed yearly. Telemetry-only members are free.
From the page: “Responder (Uptime + Telemetry) | $34/month | $29/month”
The Pro plan is marked "No SAML SSO". SAML SSO and non-public pages both first appear on Business, at $300/month billed monthly ($225/month billed yearly).
From the page: “Pro: 'No SAML SSO'; Business: 'SAML SSO', 'All status pages'”
Plans run Basic $79/mo, Standard $149/mo, Plus $349/mo and Enterprise from $999/mo. The exportable audit trail, team SSO and Private Mode all first appear on Plus at $349/mo.
From the page: “Exportable audit log of status page changes — Plus, $349/mo”
A status page is $29.00/mo. Single sign-on (SAML 2.0 and Google OAuth 2.0) is a $100/month account-level upgrade, and Privacy Controls are a $70-per-page add-on.
From the page: “Account-Level Upgrades: Single Sign-On $100/month”
Competitor prices and packaging as listed on each vendor's own public pricing page on 2026-08-31. Vendors change pricing frequently and without notice — follow the source link in each row and confirm before making a decision. Feature names are quoted as each vendor writes them.
Where the others are a better choice
Anyone who tells you their product wins every comparison is telling you they haven't looked. Some honest reasons to buy elsewhere:
- You need SOC 2 or ISO 27001 from the vendor itself. We have neither, and we are not going to imply that our hosting provider’s certifications are ours. Atlassian and the larger vendors will pass that gate; we will not.
- You need data residency in the EU or US. We run in one region in India with replication to Southeast Asia, and we cannot pin your data elsewhere today.
- You are deep in the Atlassian ecosystem. If your incidents already live in Jira Service Management and your team is on Atlassian accounts, Statuspage’s integration is worth real money and we do not replace it.
- You want one vendor for on-call, alerting and status. Better Stack and the incident-management platforms bundle paging with the status page. We do the status page and the monitoring behind it, and we integrate with your pager rather than being one.
- You need contractual 24/7 support. We are a small team in one time zone. Our alerting wakes a human for platform-wide problems, but we will not sell you a follow-the-sun rota that does not exist.
If you do want to switch
The importer brings across components, full incident history with updates, maintenance windows, postmortems, templates, metrics and already-verified subscribers, after a preview you approve.
Your existing Statuspage API scripts keep working too — we serve Statuspage-shaped endpoints, so a deploy pipeline that posts incidents does not need rewriting on cutover day.
And the thing nobody else offers: a standing, publicly downloadable export of everything on your page, kept current. If you leave us for someone else, your data is already packaged. We would rather compete on the product than on how annoying we can make it to go.
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