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Status page tools with a free plan 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 15 status page tools. Of these, 8 are open source, 15 have a free plan and 9 can be self-hosted. Checked by hand on 30 September 2026.

  1. 1

    AlertKick

    On-call rosters, escalation policies and paging by mobile push, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and email, with uptime, heartbeat and SSL checks and hosted status pages. Priced per server rather than per user.

    Free plan On-call schedulesEscalation policiesPhone and SMSMobile app
  2. 2

    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
  3. 3

    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
  4. 4

    Cachet

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

    Free Self-hosted Status page
  5. 5

    cState

    Static status page generator built on Hugo; incidents are Markdown files and the site can be hosted free on Netlify, GitHub Pages or similar.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Status page
  6. 6

    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
  7. 7

    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
  8. 8

    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
  9. 9

    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
  10. 10

    Statping-ng

    Self-hosted status page and monitoring server in Go that checks HTTP, TCP and other services and shows their state and history; a maintained fork of Statping.

    Free Open source (GPL-3.0) Self-hosted Status pageUptime checks
  11. 11

    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
  12. 12

    Tinystatus

    Shell script that runs simple HTTP, ping and port checks and writes the results to a static HTML status page.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Status pageUptime checks
  13. 13

    Upptime

    Uptime monitor and status page that runs entirely on GitHub: Actions do the checks, Issues record incidents and GitHub Pages serves the status site.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Status pageUptime checks
  14. 14

    Uptime Kuma

    Self-hosted monitor for HTTP, keyword, TCP, ping, DNS, Docker and push checks, with status pages and dozens of notification integrations.

    Free Open source (MIT) Self-hosted Uptime checksHeartbeatsStatus pageNotifications
  15. 15

    Vigil

    Self-hosted status page for microservices, written in Rust, that probes HTTP, TCP and ICMP targets and sends alerts to Slack, email, SMS and other channels.

    Free Open source (MPL-2.0) Self-hosted Status pageUptime checks

Side by side

Tool Pricing Free plan Open source Self-hosted Public pagePrivate pagesCustom domainEmail subscribersSMS subscribersScheduled maintenanceUptime historyBuilt-in monitoringAPIVendor status aggregation
AlertKick Free plan Yes No No Yes-Yes----Yes--
Atlassian Statuspage Free plan 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members No No YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Better Stack Free plan 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page No No YesYesYesYes-Yes-YesYes-
Cachet Free Yes No Yes YesYesYesYes-Yes--Yes-
cState Free Yes Yes Yes Yes-YesNoNo--NoNo-
Instatus Free plan Free forever plan with a public status page No No YesYesYesYesYesYes-YesYesYes
Kener Free Yes Yes Yes Yes-YesYes-YesYesYesYes-
OpenStatus Free plan 1 monitor, 1 status page with 3 components Yes Yes YesYesYesYes-YesYesYesYes-
PingPong Free plan Yes No No YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Statping-ng Free Yes Yes Yes Yes-Yes----YesYes-
StatusGator Free plan 3 monitors, 1 board No No YesYesYesYes---YesYesYes
Tinystatus Free Yes Yes Yes Yes-YesNoNoYes-YesNo-
Upptime Free Yes Yes Yes Yes-Yes--YesYesYes--
Uptime Kuma Free Yes Yes Yes Yes-Yes--YesYesYes--
Vigil Free Yes Yes Yes Yes-Yes--Yes-YesYes-

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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