Free Status Page Tools
Which status page tools a startup can tell its users about outages and maintenance with for free today, how many subscribers and components the free plan allows, whether a card is needed and what the first paid plan costs, read from each provider's own page.
Free allowances read on each provider's own pages, all checked on or after . Status page tools change their free plans from time to time: confirm the terms on the provider's page before you rely on it.
Status page tools a startup can use for free today include Atlassian Statuspage (Free plan (100 subscribers, 25 components)), Cachet (Free to self-host, open source), OpenStatus (Free Hobby plan: 1 monitor, 1 status page), cState (Free, open source status page), and StatusGator (Free forever). Each of the 8 free plans below links to the provider's page that states it, with its main limit, its subscriber and component caps, whether a card is needed and what the first paid plan costs.
When your product goes down, customers check a status page before they email support. A few hosted status page tools have a free plan, and open-source status pages are free to run yourself.
The headline rarely tells you how far it goes. Free plans cap subscribers, components or monitors, show the tool's branding and keep custom domains and private pages for paid plans. Each tool below shows what is free, its main limit, its subscriber and component caps, whether a card is needed and what the first paid plan costs, quoted from the provider's own page with the date we read it.
Which tools we picked and the order they appear in are our editorial choices; the terms are the providers'. Some of these providers pay us a referral commission when someone signs up through our link: those links are labeled, and they play no part in which tools are listed or where.
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Atlassian Statuspage
A hosted page for incidents, with 100 subscribers free
Statuspage's free plan covers 100 subscribers, 25 components and two team members, with email and Slack notifications and REST API access. The first paid plan, Hobby, is $29 a month and adds a custom domain.
- Subscribers and components
- 100 subscribers (source: atlassian.com)
- First paid plan
- Hobby: $29 a month, 250 subscribers (source: atlassian.com)
Start free at AtlassianTerms read on atlassian.com on Atlassian Statuspage: the free allowance and how to start - 2
OpenStatus
Uptime checks and a status page with no card
OpenStatus's free Hobby plan includes one monitor and one status page with three components, with no credit card. Starter, the first paid plan, is $30 a month.
- Subscribers and components
- 3 components on one status page (source: openstatus.dev)
- Payment card
- No card needed (source: openstatus.dev)
- First paid plan
- Starter: $30 a month (source: openstatus.dev)
Start free at OpenStatusTerms read on openstatus.dev on OpenStatus: the free allowance and how to start - 3
StatusGator
Status pages for your own product, free forever
StatusGator's free plan is free forever, with 3 monitors, one status board and 100 status page subscribers. Starter, the first paid plan, is $79 a month billed monthly, or $72 billed annually.
- What's free
- Free forever (source: statusgator.com)
- Subscribers and components
- 100 subscribers (source: statusgator.com)
- First paid plan
- Starter: $79 a month, $72 annual (source: statusgator.com)
Start free at StatusGatorTerms read on statusgator.com on StatusGator: the free allowance and how to start
Open-source status pages you can self-host
Host your own status page, free.
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Cachet
An open source status page you host yourself
Cachet is open source and free to self-host, and its site says it is free forever. You run it on your own infrastructure.
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cState
A static, serverless status page you host yourself
cState is an open source static status page, built with Go and Hugo, under the MIT license. It has a preloaded CMS and a read-only API.
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Statping-ng
Monitoring and a status page on your own server
Statping-ng is open source and stays that way, and you can host it yourself for free with Docker or a pre-built executable.
Start free at Statping-ngTerms read on statping-ng.github.io on Statping-ng: the free allowance and how to start - 4
Gatus
Developers who want a health dashboard in code
Gatus is an open source health dashboard you run yourself, licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
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Upptime
Free uptime and a status page on GitHub
Upptime runs on GitHub Actions, Issues and Pages, and its author built it to be free for anyone already using GitHub.
Also useful for monitoring and analytics
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How this comparison is built
The list covers status page tools a founder can use for free today without applying to a program. The order and the "best for" notes are our editorial reading of each tool's terms. Every term comes from the tool's own pricing or help page on the date shown, never from a third-party list; follow each link for the full conditions. A cap on subscribers or components, the tool's branding, a custom domain or private pages kept for paid plans can matter more than the headline, so the comparison quotes them wherever the provider states them. Some of these tools pay StartupPerks a referral commission, and their links are labeled as referral links; that decides neither whether nor where a tool appears, and no tool pays for a placement on this page.
Read the full methodologyCommon questions
What is the best free status page tool?
By the terms each provider states, Atlassian Statuspage's free plan covers 100 subscribers and 25 components, StatusGator is free forever with 3 monitors and 100 subscribers, and OpenStatus' Hobby plan includes 1 monitor and 1 status page.
Is Atlassian Statuspage free?
Yes. Statuspage's free plan includes 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members and 2 metrics. Hobby is $29 a month for 250 subscribers.
Is there an open-source status page?
Yes. Cachet is free to self-host, cState and Gatus are free and open source, Statping-ng runs free with Docker, and Upptime is free if you already use GitHub.
Can I host a status page for free on GitHub?
Yes. Upptime is free if you already use GitHub.
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