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Status pages with uptime monitoring

openstatus

Open-source status page and uptime monitoring platform checking from 28 regions across three clouds, with monitors defined as YAML, Terraform or CLI and flat pricing with unlimited members.

Visit openstatus.dev ↗ Alternatives Free tier Open source Self-hostable EU region
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Overview

openstatus is a newer open-source project (AGPL-3.0, about 9,000 GitHub stars) that puts status pages first. You get a branded status page on your own domain with themes, maintenance windows and subscriptions by email, RSS or SSH, and it updates itself from uptime monitors that check HTTP, REST and GraphQL endpoints from 28 regions on three cloud providers.

Everything is scriptable: monitors can be versioned as YAML in CI, managed with a CLI, a typed API, a Terraform provider or an MCP server. Private locations run as a single small Docker container to check services behind a firewall.

The hosted service is flat-priced with unlimited team members. The free Hobby tier is only for trying it out (one monitor at 10-minute intervals); Starter at $30 a month is the realistic entry point for a small company that wants a proper status page plus monitoring.

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Pricing and plans

Free tier · no card

Hobby plan: 1 monitor, 1 status page with 3 components, checks every 10 minutes at the fastest. No card required.

At the limit Not stated The vendor does not say what happens at the limit, or we have not found it yet.

Plan Price What you get
Hobby $0 1 monitor, 1 status page with 3 components, 10-minute checks
Starter $30/mo ($300/yr) 20 monitors, 1-minute checks, 6 regions per monitor, 1 status page, custom domain, 3-month retention
Pro $100/mo ($1,000/yr) 50 monitors, 30-second checks, all 28 regions, 5 status pages, private locations, OTel exporter, 12-month retention
Scale $500/mo ($5,000/yr) 10 status pages with 500 components, white label, 24-month retention
Enterprise Custom SOC 2 reports, custom regions, SLA, invoicing

Annual billing gives two months free. Add-ons are billed monthly: extra status pages $20 each, 10 extra monitors $15, white label $300, email authentication or IP restriction $100, SSO/SAML $250. Prices are offered in EUR and USD. openstatus says it will not stop monitors without notice when limits are exceeded. 30-day refund on request. euRegion is true because it is self-hostable and monitors from EU regions; the hosted data location was not stated on the pages read.

Source: www.openstatus.dev/pricing · prices as published, excluding tax.

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What it does

Status pages
Custom domains, themes, password protection, maintenance windows and email/RSS/SSH subscriptions.
Multi-region uptime checks
28 regions across 3 clouds; up to 6 per monitor on Starter, all 28 on Pro.
Monitoring as code
YAML config, CLI, GitHub Actions, Terraform provider and an MCP server.
Private locations
Check internal services with an 8.5 MB Docker image (Pro and above).
Alerts
Slack, Discord, email, webhooks, WhatsApp, SMS, PagerDuty, OpsGenie and Grafana OnCall.
Self-hosting
AGPL-3.0 code on GitHub for running your own instance.
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Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Open source and self-hostable.
  • Unlimited team members on every paid plan.
  • Checks from 28 regions on three clouds.
  • Monitors can be managed as code and reviewed in pull requests.

Limitations

  • Free tier is minimal: one monitor at 10-minute intervals.
  • SSO/SAML costs $250 a month on any plan.
  • Starter limits each monitor to 6 regions and 3 months of data.
  • No error tracking, logs or APM.
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Who it suits

Good for

  • SaaS companies that need a professional status page
  • Teams wanting monitoring as code in CI
  • Self-hosters who want an open-source status page

Look elsewhere if

  • Hobby projects needing many free monitors
  • Application performance or error monitoring
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Alternatives to openstatus

Tool From Free option Stages
Better Stack Uptime, logs, errors and incident management
$29/mo Free tier
Honeybadger Error tracking, logging, uptime and status pages
$26/mo Free tier
Sentry Error tracking and application monitoring
$26/mo Free tier
Axiom Log and event data platform
$25/mo Free tier
Hyperping Uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call
$24/mo Free tier
Checkly Synthetic and uptime monitoring as code
$24/mo Free tier

All monitoring, uptime and error tracking →

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Questions

Is openstatus free?

There is a free Hobby plan with one monitor and one status page, and the software is open source for self-hosting.

How much does openstatus cost?

Starter is $30 a month ($300 a year), Pro $100 a month and Scale $500 a month, with unlimited members.

Can I self-host openstatus?

Yes, it is AGPL-3.0 licensed and available on GitHub.

How often does openstatus check my site?

Every 10 minutes on Hobby, every minute on Starter and every 30 seconds on Pro and Scale.

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