Instatus
Instatus: A status and monitoring platform with a free tier and broad subscriber notification options. Ranked #3 of 31 in Status Page Software by our editors (9.0/10); pricing: Free plan; best for teams coordinating status updates across channels.
At a glance
- Editor score9.0 / 10
- PricingFree plan
- Best forTeams coordinating status updates across channels
- Free planYes
- Paid from$20/mo
- Incident updatesYes
- Facts checked19 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Free Starter includes 15 monitors and a public status page
- Supports private and select-audience status pages
- Subscribers can receive updates through email, SMS, chat, and more
Where it doesn't
- Pro starts at $20 per month, a notable step up from free
- Starter checks monitors every 2 minutes; faster checks begin with Pro
- Business is $300 per month for all status page types
Our verdict on Instatus
Instatus brings status pages, uptime monitoring, and incident communication together for SaaS, DevOps, and engineering teams. It supports public, private, and select-audience pages, with service components, incidents, scheduled maintenance, and postmortems. Teams can notify subscribers through email, SMS, webhooks, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, X, RSS, and API. That breadth makes it a fit for organizations that need to publish updates through more than one channel, rather than only maintain a public incident page.
The free Starter plan includes 15 monitors with 2-minute checks, email alerts, a public status page, 5 team members, and 2 on-call members. Pro costs $20 per month and raises the allowance to 50 monitors with 30-second checks, adds SMS alerts, and supports 50 team members and 20 on-call members. Business costs $300 per month, with 1,000 monitors, 30-second checks, SMS and call alerts, 50 on-call members, SAML SSO, and all status page types. Enterprise includes SCIM Directory Sync, multiple SSO connections, priority customer support, a 99.99% uptime SLA, custom contracts, and custom policies. The jump from free to Pro is meaningful, so teams should weigh faster monitoring and SMS against their actual needs.
Instatus also connects with monitoring and incident tools including Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, PagerDuty, Pingdom, and Uptime Robot. Monitoring integrations can automate component updates, and incidents can be managed from the dashboard, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. Custom domains include automatically generated SSL certificates. Choose Instatus if multi-channel subscriber communication and integrated monitoring are central requirements, especially if the free tier covers an initial workflow. Teams seeking faster checks, broader team allowances, or private and audience-specific pages should account for the paid-plan step-up; those needing only a basic public page may find the extra notification and workflow options unnecessary.
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Instatus pricing
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Instatus fact sheet
| Free plan | Yes |
|---|---|
| Paid from | $20/mo |
| Custom domain | Yes |
| Private status page | Yes |
| Incident updates | Yes |
| Maintenance scheduling | Yes |
| Subscriber channels | Multi-channel |
| Component limit | Not verified |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| Platforms | Web |
| Integrations | 20 integrations: Better Uptime, Checkly, Datadog, Freshping, Grafana, HetrixTools … |
| Pricing | Free plan (source) |
| Website | instatus.com |
| Facts checked | 19 Sep 2026 |
Instatus integrations
Instatus lists 20 integrations on its own site.
- Better Uptime
- Checkly
- Datadog
- Freshping
- Grafana
- HetrixTools
- Jira
- New Relic
- PagerDuty
- Pingdom
- Runscope
- Site24x7
- StatusCake
- Uptime Robot
- Updown.io
- Google Cloud Monitoring
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- Google Chat
Alternatives to Instatus
- StatusPage.meMonitor services and publish public or private status pages, from free to enterprise plans.9.4
- AppStatusAffordable web monitoring with incident updates, status pages, and broad alert routing.9.2
- KenerA self-hosted status system with broad monitoring and incident history, but email-only subscriptions.8.9
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