Flat pricing with no per-seat fees, per Instatus. Instatus hosts public status pages and adds uptime monitoring and incident updates. The free plan includes a public status page, 15 monitors with 2-minute checks, email alerts, 5 team members, 2 on-call members and 200 subscribers. Pro is $20 a month and adds a custom domain, 50 monitors, 30-second checks, email and SMS alerts and more members and subscribers. Instatus describes its pricing as flat with no per-seat fees. Capterra shows 4.8 from 27 reviews and G2 has 14, and reviewers focus on how clean and quick the status pages are and on fast support. A status page works best when it lives away from your own app, a point an r/devops commenter makes about hosted pages.
Free tier quotas
Status page
Public status page
Monitors
15
Check frequency
2 minutes
Alerts
Email
Team members
5
On-call members
2
Subscribers
200
Pricing model
Flat pricing with no per-seat fees, per Instatus
Last sniffed Oct 16, 2026. Always confirm on the official pricing page.
👍 Good boy
+The free plan includes a public status page, 15 monitors, 5 team members and 200 subscribers.
+Instatus says its pricing is flat, with no per-seat fees.
+Capterra shows 4.8 from 27 reviews, with one titled 'Simple and painless status page service'.
+G2 reviewers called the interface very clean, the pages fast with good desktop and mobile layouts, and said support responds quickly.
+A G2 reviewer said an organized status page means they do not have to answer phone calls or emails during incidents.
+Pro is $20 a month with a custom domain, 50 monitors, 30-second checks and SMS alerts.
+An r/devops commenter noted that a status page hosted completely separately from your app keeps working when the app goes down, which is the case for a hosted service like this.
👎 Watch out
−Free alerts are email only. SMS needs Pro.
−The free plan checks every 2 minutes, while Pro checks every 30 seconds.
−The free plan includes 200 subscribers and the next column of the table shows 5,000, so a large audience needs a paid plan.
−A custom domain is listed on Pro, so the free plan does not give you your own domain.
−G2 has only 14 reviews, so its rating is a thin sample.
−The pricing table text I read did not make the Business plan price or its limits clear, so check the page before choosing that tier.
−SAML single sign-on, SCIM directory sync, a 99.99 percent uptime SLA and priority support are Enterprise features.
The catch
The free plan is a good fit for a small product's status page. The limits that show up first are email-only alerts, 2-minute checks and a 200-subscriber cap.
The pricing page offers trials for Pro and Business, but I did not capture the trial length, so no day count is listed. I did not find a card requirement or a commercial use clause either.
Instatus is mainly a status page product with monitoring built in. If you need log search or error tracking, you need a separate tool.
What’s included
✓Public status pages
✓Uptime monitoring
✓Incident and maintenance updates
✓Subscriber notifications
✓Custom domain (Pro)
✓Team members and on-call
✓Email and SMS alerts
✓SAML single sign-on (higher tiers)
Free tier value
Generosity
A
Estimated value
Free hosted status page with 15 monitors
Feature parity
Pro is $20 a month and adds a custom domain, 50 monitors and 30-second checks.
Screenshots
Instatus homepageInstatus pricing page
Paid plans
Pro, $20 a month
Custom domain, 50 monitors, 30-second checks, email and SMS alerts, 50 team members, 20 on-call members and 5,000 subscribers. The page offers a trial.
Business
A higher tier with a trial option and SAML single sign-on. I did not capture the price.
Enterprise
SCIM directory sync, priority customer support, a 99.99 percent uptime SLA, multiple SSO connections, custom contracts and custom policies.
Common questions
Is Instatus free?
Yes. The free plan has a public status page, 15 monitors, 5 team members, 2 on-call members and 200 subscribers.
Can I use my own domain?
A custom domain is listed on Pro and above.
Does it charge per seat?
Instatus describes its pricing as flat with no per-seat fees.
How fast are the free checks?
Every 2 minutes. Pro checks every 30 seconds.
How is it rated?
Capterra shows 4.8 from 27 reviews and G2 has 14 reviews.
Change history
Checked October 22, 2026
Pricing page read as a query excerpt; some table columns were ambiguous. Capterra, G2 and Reddit read as excerpts. Business price, trial length, card requirement and commercial use not confirmed.
