Best Free Status Pages 2026: 6 Options Compared
Best free Status Pages compared: Atlassian Statuspage, Instatus, Better Stack, OneUptime and 2 more, with free-plan limits, platforms and prices from official pages checked October 23, 2026.
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Quick comparison
| Tool | Price | Platforms | Best for | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlassian Statuspage | Free (Free plan: 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members, 2 metrics); paid from $29 per month (Hobby) | Web browser | Small products that want a known brand | Docs only |
| Instatus | Free (Starter plan: 15 monitors, 2-minute checks, 200 subscribers, 5 team members, public status page without a custom domain); paid from $20 per month (Pro, from; yearly billing gives a discount) | Web browser | A hosted page with monitors included | Docs only |
| Better Stack | Free (10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page); paid from $29 per responder license/month, billed yearly ($34 monthly) | Web, iOS, Android | Monitoring and status page together | Docs only |
| OneUptime | Free (hosted free plan: 1 status page, 100 subscribers; Community Edition self-hosted); paid from $22 per user/month (Growth; billing term not stated on page) | Web, Self-hosted | Open-source option with a hosted free tier | Docs only |
| Uptime Kuma | Free (Free: open-source under MIT; self-hosted, no paid plan on the license page) | Linux, Docker | Self-hosters | Docs only |
| Upptime | Free (Free open-source software) | GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages | Developers who want no server | Docs only |
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Good fit if
- You want a hosted page with a known name (Atlassian Statuspage is the pick)
- You want monitors and a page in one hosted tool (Instatus is the pick)
- You want to avoid running a server (Upptime is the pick)
- You self-host everything (Uptime Kuma is the pick)
Not ideal if
- You need paid-tier features, uptime guarantees or support that these free plans leave out
A status page tells customers whether your service is up, and the free options are enough for a small product. Hosted choices include Atlassian Statuspage, whose free plan gives 100 subscribers, 25 components and 2 team members, and Instatus, whose Starter plan has 15 monitors, 200 subscribers and a public page but no custom domain. Better Stack includes one status page on its free plan, with 10 monitors, and OneUptime's hosted free plan includes one status page with 100 subscribers. If you prefer to own it, Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitor with status pages, and Upptime runs on GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages, so you need no server of your own. The important trade-off is hosting your status page somewhere separate from your product. If it runs on the same server that went down, nobody can see it, so a self-hosted page should live on different infrastructure. Check whether subscribers, custom domains and incident updates are limited on the free plan, because those are the first things vendors restrict. Also decide who can post updates during an outage, and test that process before you need it.
Atlassian Statuspage
Free plan gives 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members and 2 metrics. Paid Hobby is $29 a month. A well-known name, with a tight free subscriber cap.
Price: Free (Free plan: 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members, 2 metrics); paid from $29 per month (Hobby) (Atlassian Statuspage pricing, checked 2026-10-23).
Platforms and license: Web browser. Proprietary SaaS.
Best for: Small products that want a known brand.
Instatus
Free Starter plan: 15 monitors, 2-minute checks, 200 subscribers, 5 team members and a public page, but no custom domain. Pro is from $20 a month.
Price: Free (Starter plan: 15 monitors, 2-minute checks, 200 subscribers, 5 team members, public status page without a custom domain); paid from $20 per month (Pro, from; yearly billing gives a discount) (Instatus pricing, checked 2026-10-23).
Platforms and license: Web browser. Proprietary SaaS.
Best for: A hosted page with monitors included.
Better Stack
Free plan includes 10 monitors and heartbeats and 1 status page. Paid responder licenses start at $29 a month. Combines uptime monitoring and status page.
Price: Free (10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page); paid from $29 per responder license/month, billed yearly ($34 monthly) (Better Stack pricing, checked 2026-10-22).
Platforms and license: Web, iOS, Android. Proprietary SaaS.
Best for: Monitoring and status page together.
Worth knowing: Team members who only view are $0; on-call scheduling is tied to responder licenses.
OneUptime
Apache-2.0 with an ee directory under a separate license. Hosted free plan has 1 status page and 100 subscribers; Community Edition is self-hosted. Growth is $22 per user a month.
Price: Free (hosted free plan: 1 status page, 100 subscribers; Community Edition self-hosted); paid from $22 per user/month (Growth; billing term not stated on page) (OneUptime pricing, checked 2026-10-22).
Platforms and license: Web, Self-hosted. Apache-2.0 (ee/ directory under a separate license) (open source).
Project activity: 7.8k GitHub stars · latest release 14.0.94 (Oct 27, 2026) · last commit Oct 27, 2026
Best for: Open-source option with a hosted free tier.
Worth knowing: Community Edition includes on-call schedules and escalation policies. SMS and calls are $0.10 each unless you bring your own Twilio.
Uptime Kuma
MIT-licensed self-hosted monitor, free with no paid plan. Includes status pages, but you run the server, ideally away from the services it watches.
Price: Free (Free: open-source under MIT; self-hosted, no paid plan on the license page) (Uptime Kuma pricing, checked 2026-10-23).
Platforms and license: Linux, Docker. MIT (open source).
Project activity: 93k GitHub stars · latest release 2.5.8 (Oct 26, 2026) · last commit Oct 28, 2026
Best for: Self-hosters.
Upptime
MIT-licensed monitor and status page that run on GitHub Actions per the repo. No server to maintain, but it relies on GitHub and has a coarser check interval.
Price: Free (Free open-source software) (Upptime pricing, checked 2026-10-23).
Platforms and license: GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages. MIT (open source).
Project activity: 17.2k GitHub stars · latest release v2.0.0 (Oct 13, 2020) · last commit Oct 27, 2026
Best for: Developers who want no server.
Which one to pick
- You want a hosted page with a known name: Atlassian Statuspage
- You want monitors and a page in one hosted tool: Instatus
- You want to avoid running a server: Upptime
- You self-host everything: Uptime Kuma
Limits of this review
Docs-only for Atlassian Statuspage, Instatus, Better Stack, OneUptime, Uptime Kuma, Upptime: we did not install or run them, so feature claims come from vendor pages. Vendor prices and free limits change; confirm on the linked pricing page before you commit.
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Kevin Fan
Kevin Fan is a SaaS founder. He runs Free Instead Of, which tracks free and open-source alternatives to paid software and checks each price and free-plan limit against the vendor's own pages.
Methodology
Based on official pricing, license and product pages checked between 2026-10-22 and 2026-10-23: Atlassian Statuspage, Instatus, Better Stack, OneUptime, Uptime Kuma, Upptime. Prices, free limits and licenses are the figures shown on those pages on those dates. No tool on this page was installed or run. No accounts were created.