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Best status page tools in 2026

Public or private pages that tell users what is broken and when it will be fixed, plus aggregators that watch the status pages of your vendors. This list has the top 11 of 23 status page tools, ranked by a published score. Of these, 2 are open source, 8 have a free plan and 3 can be self-hosted. Checked by hand on 30 September 2026.

How this list is ranked

Each active tool gets a score out of 100. Archived, end-of-sale and maintenance-only tools are left out.

  • Capabilities: up to 75 points for the share of the category checklist that the tool's own documentation confirms. A tool meeting 8 of 10 items gets 60.
  • Free to start: 15 points for a free plan or a free edition.
  • Open or self-hostable: 10 points if it is open source or can be self-hosted.

Each category has a fixed checklist of capabilities (shown in the table below and on every tool page). An item counts only when the tool's own documentation confirms it; anything we could not confirm counts as not met. How long a tool has existed is deliberately not scored, so a new tool is not ranked below an older one for being new. Tools with the same score share a rank (shown as =), are listed A to Z within it, and the list never cuts between them. Nobody pays for a position.

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    Atlassian Statuspage

    Hosted public, private and audience-specific status pages with incident and maintenance updates, component status and email, SMS and webhook subscriptions.

    Free plan Free: 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members Status page
    90 10 of 10 capabilities (75), free 15, open 0
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    PingPong

    Hosted status pages with uptime checks and incident updates, and notifications to subscribers by email, Slack, SMS, Discord and other channels.

    Free plan Status pageUptime checksNotifications
    90 10 of 10 capabilities (75), free 15, open 0
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    OpenStatus

    Open source status pages and multi-region uptime monitoring, available as a hosted service or self-hosted.

    Free plan Free: 1 monitor, 1 status page with 3 components Open source (AGPL-3.0) Self-hosted Status pageUptime checks
    85 8 of 10 capabilities (60), free 15, open 10
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    Instatus

    Hosted status pages with incident and maintenance updates, subscriber notifications, custom domains and built-in uptime monitors.

    Free plan Free: Free forever plan with a public status page Status pageUptime checks
    83 9 of 10 capabilities (68), free 15, open 0
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    Kener

    Self-hosted status page with built-in monitors, incident management and a Docker image, written in SvelteKit and Node.js.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Status pageUptime checks
    78 7 of 10 capabilities (53), free 15, open 10
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    StatusPal

    Hosted status pages with incident management and monitoring, offered as a newer product line and an enterprise-focused Classic edition.

    Paid Status pageUptime checks
    75 10 of 10 capabilities (75), free 0, open 0
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    Cachet

    Self-hosted status page system built on Laravel, with components, incidents, scheduled maintenance, metrics and subscriber notifications.

    Free Self-hosted Status page
    70 6 of 10 capabilities (45), free 15, open 10
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    Better Stack

    Observability suite that pairs uptime checks, logs and metrics with on-call schedules, escalation policies, phone and SMS alerts and hosted status pages.

    Free plan Free: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page On-call schedulesEscalation policiesPhone and SMSUptime checks
    68 7 of 10 capabilities (53), free 15, open 0
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    Sorry

    Hosted status pages for public and private audiences with incident and maintenance notices, product update posts and subscriber notifications.

    Paid Status page
    68 9 of 10 capabilities (68), free 0, open 0
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    Status.io

    Hosted status pages with incident and maintenance communication, component containers, metrics charts and email, SMS, webhook and social media notifications.

    Paid Status page
    68 9 of 10 capabilities (68), free 0, open 0
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    StatusGator

    Status page aggregator that monitors the status pages of cloud and SaaS vendors, sends alerts on their outages and lets you build your own status page from them.

    Free plan Free: 3 monitors, 1 board Status pageNotifications
    68 7 of 10 capabilities (53), free 15, open 0

Side by side

Tool Pricing Free plan Open source Self-hosted Public pagePrivate pagesCustom domainEmail subscribersSMS subscribersScheduled maintenanceUptime historyBuilt-in monitoringAPIVendor status aggregation
Atlassian Statuspage Free plan 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members No No YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
PingPong Free plan Yes No No YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
OpenStatus Free plan 1 monitor, 1 status page with 3 components Yes Yes YesYesYesYes-YesYesYesYes-
Instatus Free plan Free forever plan with a public status page No No YesYesYesYesYesYes-YesYesYes
Kener Free Yes Yes Yes Yes-YesYes-YesYesYesYes-
StatusPal Paid No No No YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Cachet Free Yes No Yes YesYesYesYes-Yes--Yes-
Better Stack Free plan 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page No No YesYesYesYes-Yes-YesYes-
Sorry Paid No No No YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes-
Status.io Paid No No No YesYes-YesYesYesYesYesYesYes
StatusGator Free plan 3 monitors, 1 board No No YesYesYesYes---YesYesYes

Yes: confirmed in the tool's documentation. No: documented as not offered. -: not confirmed. Plans and prices change; check each tool's own site before you decide.

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