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What it is for

Instatus is a hosted status-page desk: you publish component rows with 90-day uptime bars, and Starter is Free forever (15 monitors). Use it when the job is a public status page you start at a public $, not when you need a $0 self-hosted monitor only.

Soft-note: Starter Free forever + paid Pro. Distinct from Better Stack, Checkly, OpenStatus, and OneUptime.

What makes it unique: the cover is Instatus’s official status page chrome (All systems operational, rows Public status pages ~115ms 100.0% uptime, Private status pages 99.99%, Uptime monitoring, Incident response, On-call, 90-day bars, Report an issue / Get updates) from the 2026 CleanShot on the Instatus blog — not a logo tile. The Public status pages bar itself is ops of the status page.

Key features

All systems operational — the header status on the public page (cover still; demo). One desk. Cover All systems operational sits here. Report an issue sits here as a CTA, not a sixth desk.
Public status pages — the first component row with a 90-day bar and 100.0% uptime (cover ~115ms). A component, not a Starter tile.
Private status pages — the second row (99.99% uptime) (cover; private pages). A private page, not a Pro tile.
Uptime monitoring — the third component + 90-day ticks (cover; homepage.md websites / APIs / cron / SSL). A monitor row, not a $20 meter.
Incident response — the fourth component on the same page (cover). An incident desk, not Get updates.
On-call — the fifth component row (cover). An on-call row, not a Business invent.

Report an issue / Get updates on the cover are CTAs (not desks). Starter / Pro tiles stay in Pricing. We do not invent a Business $ from stray HTML.

Who it's for

Best fit: teams who will stay on Starter Free forever at $0 (15 monitors, 2-minute checks, 5 members, 200 subscribers) while they publish a first status page, then Pro at $20/month when they need 50 monitors, 30s checks, and a custom domain.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from instatus.com/pricing. Figures below are the printed USD cards we could quote. Soft-note: Starter Free forever + Pro.

Starter — Free forever. Title/meta: 15 monitors, 2 minute checks, 5 members, 200 subscribers. Public status page.
Pro — $20/month. 50 monitors, 30s checks, custom domain (from the title/meta we fetched).
Business / Enterprise — the page we fetched did not print a clear Business $ card we would quote. Do not invent $60 or a custom $.

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Limitations / costs

Starter is 15 monitors and 2-minute checks. 30-second checks print on Pro $20.
We do not invent a Business $. Quote Starter Free + Pro $20 only.
A status-page desk, not Better Stack’s Structure + logs. For that Structure see Better Stack.
The hosted app is not an OSS status repo. We omit a GitHub CTA rather than treat instatushq/* extras as the page.

Alternatives

Better Stack — Status page Structure when you want Free $0 / 10 monitors, not Instatus’s Public status pages bar.
OpenStatus — Hobby $0 / Starter $30 when you want OSS status, not Pro $20.
Checkly — Hobby $0 Playwright/API when you want check-as-code, not On-call on a public page.

Official tutorial

Official Instatus channel exists. Films we oEmbedded (Get ready for downtime!, For those who dare to ship, Instatus 2.0) are brand films, not a status-page how-to we would embed as officialVideo. Instatus Out is a menu-bar product, not this page. Instatus - Get a quick & beautiful status page (ZtWppo6Woj8) oEmbeds as Boutique Video Agency — third-party; we do not embed it. Do not claim “no official YouTube”: the live official handle is @instatus.

Written path: instatus.com/pricing plus the 2026 CleanShot and help.

Website

https://instatus.com/

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Instatus’s official status-page CleanShot (All systems operational + Public/Private status pages + Uptime monitoring + Incident response + On-call). Dollars checked on instatus.com/pricing (Starter Free forever / 15 monitors; Pro $20/mo). Business $ not quoted. YouTube: official @instatus linked; brand films not used as how-to; Boutique agency film not embedded.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.