2026-10-30
Best uptime monitoring for a small SaaS in 2026
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For a small SaaS, pick a tool whose first paid plan checks every minute or faster and puts a status page with subscribers on your own domain. Hyperping, Instatus, OpenStatus and Uptimepage each do that for $9 to $30 a month. Better Stack does too and adds on-call and logs, from $29 a month billed yearly.
| Tool | Free-tier monitors | Check interval, free / first paid | Status page on your own domain | First paid tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better Stack | 10 monitors and heartbeats | 3 min / 30 s | Free, as a custom sub-domain | $29/mo yearly or $34 monthly, per responder |
| Checkly | 10 | 2 min / 1 min | Paid status page plan, $9/mo yearly | $24/mo yearly (monitoring) |
| Hyperping | 20 | 5 min / 30 s | From Essentials | $24/mo billed yearly ($290/yr) |
| Instatus | 15 | 2 min / 30 s | From Pro | From $20/mo |
| OneUptime | Manual only; automated checks $1/monitor/mo | None / 1 min, metered | Not stated | From $22/user/mo |
| OpenStatus | 1 | 10 min / 1 min | From Starter | $30/mo, or $25/mo yearly |
| Uptimepage | 20 | 3 min / 60 s | From Pro | $9/mo, or $90/yr |
| UptimeRobot | 50 | 5 min / 60 s | 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 eight, which is why the list runs alphabetically instead of as a ranking. Atlassian Statuspage and incident.io are missing because they run no uptime checks; our free status page comparison covers them.
Better Stack
Better Stack is the broadest product here: uptime monitoring, status pages, on-call, logs, traces and error tracking under one account. For a SaaS that means paid checks as often as every 30 seconds, unlimited phone call and SMS alerts for each responder, and a status page with 1,000 subscribers included. The price is built from parts. A responder licence is $29 a month on yearly billing or $34 monthly, 10 monitors are included, and each further 50 monitors costs $21 a month on yearly billing. Extra status pages are $12 a month yearly, and removing the "Powered by Better Stack" footer is $208 per page per month. The free plan, headed "Free for personal projects", gives 10 monitors at 3-minute checks and one page on a sub-domain of your own, such as status.yourdomain.com. It is worth the price if you will use the logs and on-call as well as the checks. Uptimepage vs Better Stack goes through the differences.
Sources: Better Stack pricing and check frequency docs, accessed 30 October 2026.
Checkly
For a SaaS with a sign-up flow or checkout worth testing end to end, Checkly is the specialist. Its browser checks are Playwright scripts, and its Starter plan is $24 a month billed annually for 50 uptime monitors at 1-minute checks from 6 locations, with email, Slack, SMS and webhook alerts and allowances of browser and API checks. The status page is a separate line on the same pricing page: free with 20 services and 250 email or RSS subscribers, and $9 a month billed annually for the Starter page with your own domain and 500 subscribers. Expect to pay for both. The free Hobby plan has 10 uptime monitors at 2-minute checks.
Source: Checkly pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
Hyperping
Hyperping sells monitoring, a status page and on-call as one product, where a small SaaS might otherwise pay three vendors. Its first paid plan, Essentials, is $24 a month billed yearly ($290 a year), and the page's summary lists paid plans from $29 a month. Essentials gives 50 monitors at 30-second checks, a status page on your own domain with 100 subscribers, three seats, and alert acknowledgement and escalation. A 100-subscriber cap is low once you have many customers; Pro raises it to 1,000 for $74 a month billed yearly. The free plan, 20 monitors at 5-minute checks and a page with no subscribers, is for trying it out.
Source: Hyperping pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
Instatus
With Instatus, the page is the main event. Pro, listed "from $20/mo", includes 50 monitors at 30-second checks, a custom domain, 5,000 subscribers, email and SMS alerts and 50 team members, and Instatus says it charges no per-seat fees. The free Starter plan, 15 monitors at 2-minute checks and 200 subscribers without a custom domain, is enough to launch on.
Source: Instatus pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
OneUptime
OneUptime is a broad incident platform: monitoring, status pages, on-call, logs and traces. On its cloud pricing, the free plan includes one status page with 100 subscribers and manual monitors, while automated monitors cost $1 each per month and check every minute. Growth, listed from $22 per user, adds unlimited status pages and subscribers and on-call. Per-monitor pricing keeps a small setup cheap, though the per-user price grows with the team. You can also run it yourself from its GitHub repository, as a multi-service deployment. We compare the two in Uptimepage vs OneUptime.
Sources: OneUptime pricing and repository, accessed 30 October 2026.
OpenStatus
OpenStatus Starter costs $30 a month, or $25 a month on yearly billing. It covers 20 monitors at 1-minute checks, each from up to 6 of 28 regions, one status page with 20 components, subscribers and a custom domain, ten notification channels across Slack, Discord, email, webhooks, WhatsApp, PagerDuty and Opsgenie, and unlimited team members. Extra monitors are $15 a month per 10 and extra pages $20 a month each. The source is AGPL, so self-hosting is an option. The free Hobby plan, one monitor at a 10-minute interval, is a demo rather than a plan to run a SaaS on.
Sources: OpenStatus pricing and repository, accessed 30 October 2026.
Uptimepage
I build Uptimepage, so treat this as the vendor's own description. Pro is $9 a month, or $90 a year, for 50 monitors at 60-second checks from all 13 of our regions, two status pages on your own domain with email and webhook subscribers, five teammate seats, 90-day history and no "Powered by" badge. A majority of probe regions has to agree on a failure before an incident opens, and the incident then posts to the page by itself. Monitors, pages and alert channels can be managed through a REST API, a Terraform provider and an MCP server. What it lacks: no logs, no RUM, a 60-second floor on Pro where several rivals check every 30 seconds, and on-call rotations with escalation only on the $19 Team plan. The free Standard plan gives 20 monitors at 3-minute checks and one page on an uptimepage.dev subdomain. More on the SaaS setup in status page for SaaS.
Source: Uptimepage pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot is the familiar cheap monitor: 50 free monitors at 5-minute checks, the most of any hosted free plan here, and the page says the free plan suits commercial projects. For a SaaS, the catch is the status page. Solo, at €10 a month or €9 a month on yearly billing, adds 60-second checks and three status pages on your own domain, but the plan comparison marks status page subscribers as Team-only. Team is €41 a month, or €35 yearly, for 100 monitors at 30-second checks, three login seats, subscribers and white-label pages. If your customers will not subscribe to updates, Solo is good value. See Uptimepage vs UptimeRobot for the detail.
Source: UptimeRobot pricing, accessed 30 October 2026.
Common questions
How often should a small SaaS check its uptime?
Every minute or faster on anything your customers use. A 5-minute check can miss a short outage entirely and can take up to five minutes to notice a long one. Every first paid plan in this comparison checks every 60 seconds or faster, while the free plans run every 2 to 10 minutes.
Do I need a separate status page tool?
Usually not. Every tool in this comparison offers checks and a status page from one account, though Checkly prices the page separately and OneUptime meters its automated checks, and a page tied to real checks changes when you go down. Atlassian Statuspage and incident.io are page and incident tools with no uptime checks of their own, so they make sense only next to a monitor you already have.
Which first paid plans include status page subscribers?
Better Stack (1,000 included), Checkly's status page plans, Hyperping Essentials (100), Instatus Pro (5,000), OpenStatus Starter and Uptimepage Pro all include subscribers. UptimeRobot adds them on Team, its second paid plan, not on Solo.
What is the cheapest way to get a status page on my own domain?
Better Stack's free plan includes one as a custom sub-domain, though that plan is headed for personal projects, and incident.io's free plan includes one but runs no uptime checks. Among paid plans, Uptimepage Pro is $9 a month, Checkly's status page Starter is $9 a month billed annually, and UptimeRobot Solo is €9 to €10 a month. Instatus, Hyperping, OpenStatus and Statuspage start between $20 and $30.