2026-10-30
Best free status page tools in 2026
- status-page
- alternatives
- monitoring
For a startup, the best free status page is one that runs its own uptime checks, so it changes when you go down. Better Stack, Checkly, Hyperping, Instatus, OpenStatus, UptimeRobot and Uptimepage do; incident.io and Atlassian Statuspage only publish what you post. Better Stack and incident.io put the free page on your own domain.
| Tool | Free-tier monitors | Free check interval | Status page on your own domain | First paid tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlassian Statuspage | None, no uptime checks | No checks | From Hobby | $29/mo (Hobby) |
| Better Stack | 10 monitors and heartbeats | 3 min | Free, as a custom sub-domain | $29/mo yearly or $34 monthly, per responder |
| Checkly | 10 | 2 min | From the paid status page plan | $9/mo yearly (status page), $24/mo yearly (monitoring) |
| Hyperping | 20 | 5 min | From Essentials | $24/mo billed yearly ($290/yr) |
| incident.io | None, no uptime checks | No checks | Free | $19/user/mo, $15 yearly |
| Instatus | 15 | 2 min | From Pro | From $20/mo |
| OneUptime | Manual only; automated checks $1/monitor/mo | None free; 1 min, metered | Not stated | From $22/user/mo |
| OpenStatus | 1 | 10 min | From Starter | $30/mo, or $25/mo yearly |
| Uptimepage | 20 | 3 min | From Pro | $9/mo, or $90/yr |
| UptimeRobot | 50 | 5 min | From Solo | €10/mo, or €9/mo yearly |
I took every figure from the vendor's own pricing page on 30 October 2026, and each one is linked in the table and again in its section. UptimeRobot prices in the visitor's local currency, so its figures are the euro prices it showed us. I build Uptimepage, one of the ten, which is why the list runs alphabetically instead of as a ranking.
Atlassian Statuspage
Statuspage is the best-known hosted status page, and its free plan is a working page: 100 subscribers, 25 components and two team members, with email, Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications and REST API access. It leaves out the monitoring. The pricing page lists no uptime checks on any plan, so the page turns red only when someone on your team, or an integration, tells it to. A custom domain starts on the Hobby plan at $29 a month, which also lifts the caps to 250 subscribers and five team members. It is the natural pick when your team already works in Atlassian tools and has a monitor to drive it. We cover the trade-offs in Uptimepage vs Statuspage and 11 Statuspage alternatives.
Source: Statuspage pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
Better Stack
Better Stack's free plan covers 10 monitors and heartbeats and one status page, with Slack and email alerts, and its documentation puts free checks at every 3 minutes, against 30 seconds on paid plans. The free page takes your logo and a sub-domain of your own, such as status.yourdomain.com, which most free tiers here do not allow. Read two lines on the pricing page before you sign up. The free plan is headed "Free for personal projects", and paid use starts at $29 a month on yearly billing, or $34 monthly, for one responder licence. Taking the "Powered by Better Stack" footer off costs $208 per page per month on yearly billing. Better Stack makes most sense when you expect to want on-call, logs and tracing from the same vendor later. Our side-by-side is Uptimepage vs Better Stack.
Sources: Better Stack pricing, check frequency docs and status page overview, all accessed 30 October 2026.
Checkly
Checkly is a synthetic monitoring platform first, built around Playwright browser checks, and its pricing page prices status pages in a separate "Communicate" section. The free Hobby plan includes 10 uptime monitors at a fastest 2-minute frequency from 6 locations, allowances of browser and API checks, and a status page with 20 services and 250 subscribers by email or RSS. A custom domain is not on Hobby. It starts on the status page Starter plan at $9 a month billed annually, and paid monitoring is a separate Starter plan at $24 a month billed annually for 50 monitors at 1-minute checks. Pick Checkly when scripted tests of your sign-up or checkout matter more to you than the page itself.
Source: Checkly pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
Hyperping
Hyperping's free plan gives 20 monitors at 5-minute checks, one basic status page on a Hyperping-hosted domain and one seat. Subscribers and a custom domain are not included. Essentials, the first paid plan, costs $24 a month billed yearly ($290 a year), and the page's summary lists paid plans from $29 a month. It adds 50 monitors at 30-second checks, one status page on your own domain with 100 subscribers, three seats, and alert acknowledgement and escalation. Hyperping fits a team that wants monitoring, the page and basic on-call from one vendor and expects to pay for it soon, since the free page has no subscribers.
Source: Hyperping pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
incident.io
incident.io is an incident response tool run from Slack or Microsoft Teams, and its free Basic plan includes one public status page with unlimited subscribers and a custom domain, along with single-team on-call. No other free page here allows unlimited subscribers. It does not run uptime checks of its own, as its pricing page lists none, so a separate monitor has to tell it something broke. Paid plans are priced per user: Team is $19 a user a month, or $15 on annual billing, with on-call $10 more per user. Choose it when your incidents already happen in Slack and you have a monitor you like.
Source: incident.io pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
Instatus
Instatus has a free Starter plan with 15 monitors at 2-minute checks, a public status page with 200 subscribers, five team members, two on-call members and email alerts. The free page cannot use your own domain. Pro, listed "from $20/mo", adds a custom domain, 50 monitors at 30-second checks, 5,000 subscribers and SMS alerts, and Instatus says it charges no per-seat fees. If the free limits fit you, its 2-minute interval ties with Checkly's as the fastest free interval in this list.
Source: Instatus pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
OneUptime
OneUptime's cloud Free plan includes one status page, 100 subscribers, unlimited manual monitors, incident management, and logs, traces and metrics. Automated checks are metered: active monitors cost $1 each per month, so the page only updates itself once you pay for the monitors behind it. Growth, the first full paid plan, is listed from $22 per user and adds unlimited status pages, unlimited subscribers and on-call. The pricing page does not say whether the free page can use a custom domain. OneUptime can also be self-hosted from its GitHub repository. We compare the two self-hosted setups in Uptimepage vs OneUptime.
Sources: OneUptime pricing and repository, accessed 30 October 2026.
OpenStatus
OpenStatus does monitoring and the page in one product, and its source is AGPL. The free Hobby plan is small: one monitor at a 10-minute minimum interval and one status page with three components. Starter costs $30 a month, or $25 a month on yearly billing, for 20 monitors at 1-minute checks, a page with 20 components, subscribers and a custom domain, with each monitor checked from up to 6 of 28 regions. You can trial Starter for 14 days without a card. Treat the free plan as a demo and Starter as the real entry point.
Sources: OpenStatus pricing and repository, accessed 30 October 2026.
Uptimepage
Uptimepage is the product I build, so weigh this section accordingly. The free Standard plan costs $0 with no card and no expiry, and it is fine for business use. It includes 20 monitors checked every 3 minutes from 3 of our 13 regions, one status page with up to 15 components on a subdomain such as your-org.uptimepage.dev, email and webhook subscribers, three teammate seats and 30-day history. A failing check opens an incident and posts it to the page, so nobody has to remember to update it. The catch is that the free page shows a "Powered by Uptimepage" line and cannot use your own domain, and its 3-minute checks are slower than the 2 minutes Instatus and Checkly give for free. Pro is $9 a month, or $90 a year, for 50 monitors at 60-second checks from all 13 regions, two status pages, your own domain and no badge. There are no logs or RUM, and on-call rotations are on the $19 Team plan. The code is AGPL, so you can self-host it without plan limits. Our free status page overview has the details.
Source: Uptimepage pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot's free plan has the most monitors of any hosted free tier here, 50 at 5-minute checks, and the page calls it "Good for personal and commercial projects". It includes one basic status page, but the plan comparison on the same page marks a custom domain and status page subscribers as not included on free. Solo, the first paid plan, is €10 a month, or €9 a month on yearly billing, for 10 monitors (a 50-monitor tier costs more), 60-second checks and three status pages on your own domain. Subscribers wait for Team, at €41 a month or €35 on yearly billing. If you need many monitors for nothing and your users will not subscribe to updates, it is hard to beat. Uptimepage vs UptimeRobot puts the two side by side.
Source: UptimeRobot pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
Common questions
Which free status page tools include uptime monitoring?
Better Stack, Checkly, Hyperping, Instatus, OpenStatus, UptimeRobot and Uptimepage all run uptime checks on their free plans, from one monitor on OpenStatus to 50 on UptimeRobot. Atlassian Statuspage and incident.io run no checks of their own, and OneUptime's free plan has manual monitors only, with automated checks at $1 a monitor a month.
Can I use my own domain on a free status page?
Yes, on two of the tools here. Better Stack's free status page takes your own sub-domain, and incident.io's free Basic plan includes a custom domain. Everywhere else it is a paid feature: Uptimepage Pro at $9 a month, Checkly's status page Starter at $9 a month billed annually, UptimeRobot Solo, Instatus Pro, Hyperping Essentials, OpenStatus Starter and Statuspage Hobby.
Can a startup use a free status page for its business?
Read the plan's own wording first. UptimeRobot describes its free plan as good for personal and commercial projects, and Uptimepage's free Standard plan is fine for business use. Better Stack heads its free plan "Free for personal projects". For the other vendors, check their terms before you build on the free tier.
Is there a free self-hosted status page?
Yes. Uptime Kuma, Upptime and Cachet are free to run on your own server, and OpenStatus, OneUptime and Uptimepage can be self-hosted too. We compared eleven of them in our guide to the best open-source status pages.