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Status Pages · bundled with monitoring at $0
Best Status Page Tools in 2026
A status page lets customers self-serve the question "is the service down right now" without emailing support. The right one updates automatically the moment your monitoring detects an issue, runs at status.yourdomain.com for trust, and looks like your brand instead of the vendor\'s. This guide ranks the six strongest status page tools by customization, custom-domain support, automatic incident posting from monitoring, and price. Visual Sentinel ships status pages on every plan starting at $0; standalone tools cost $20 to $200 a month for the same capability.
Free status page with auto incident posting
Visual Sentinel Free includes 1 status page + 3 monitors at $0. Solo $6/mo for 1 status page. Business $39/mo for 5 status pages with custom domain.
Six Best Status Page Tools, Ranked
#1
Visual Sentinel (bundled with monitoring)
RecommendedPrice: Free ($0, 1 status page) · Solo $6/mo · Starter $12/mo (1 page) · Business $39/mo (5 pages) · Agency $149/mo (50 pages)
Custom domain: Yes on Business and Agency
Auto incident posting: Yes (linked monitor auto-posts to status page)
Best for: The lowest-friction option for any team that ALSO needs monitoring. Free plan includes 1 status page at $0 with the monitoring layer. Agency plan covers 50 white-label status pages with custom-domain support per page (one per client). Status pages are embed-friendly so you can iframe them on your marketing or support site.
#2
Statuspage by Atlassian
Price: $29/mo Starter · $79/mo Growth · $399/mo Business
Custom domain: Yes on all paid plans
Auto incident posting: Yes via API + Slack/PagerDuty/etc integrations
Best for: The category-defining product, most polished UX. Best fit for established SaaS teams already on Atlassian (Jira, Confluence). Per-page pricing climbs fast; the Starter plan is one page.
#3
Instatus
Price: Free (basic) · $20/mo entry · $200/mo Business
Custom domain: Yes from paid plans
Auto incident posting: Yes via integrations
Best for: Strong free tier and clean design. Bills itself as a Statuspage alternative; ships fast page-load times and a simpler editor. Good fit for indie SaaS teams.
#4
Better Stack (Better Uptime)
Price: $25/mo entry (status page bundled with monitoring)
Custom domain: Yes on Team+
Auto incident posting: Yes (bundled with monitoring)
Best for: Bundles status page with monitoring + incident management. Most expensive bundled option. Strong fit for teams that want on-call rotations alongside the status page.
#5
StatusGator
Price: $24.99/mo entry
Custom domain: Yes
Auto incident posting: Aggregates from 1,500+ external service status pages
Best for: Different model: instead of YOUR status page, StatusGator aggregates the status of your dependencies (AWS, Cloudflare, Stripe, Slack, etc.) and alerts you when one of THEM goes down. Useful as a complement to your own status page, not a replacement.
#6
Sorry™
Price: $29/mo entry · $79/mo Business · $179/mo Enterprise
Custom domain: Yes on paid plans
Auto incident posting: Yes via API and integrations
Best for: UK-based, polished, customer-empathy-focused branding (the name + UX leans into the "we're sorry" moment). Comparable feature set to Statuspage at similar price.
Feature Matrix
| Feature | Visual Sentinel | Statuspage | Instatus | Better Stack | StatusGator | Sorry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier with full status page | limited | limited | ||||
| Custom domain (status.yourdomain.com) | Business+ | all paid | paid | Team+ | paid | |
| Monitoring bundled (no separate tool needed) | aggregates external | |||||
| Automatic incident posting from monitoring | via webhook | via webhook | via aggregation | via webhook | ||
| Embed-friendly (no X-Frame-Options block) | ||||||
| Multiple status pages per account | 50 on Agency | paid tier | paid tier | paid tier | paid tier | |
| White-label (no vendor branding) | Business+ | Growth+ | paid | Team+ | paid | |
| Public subscriber notifications (email) |
Get a status page bundled with monitoring at $0
Visual Sentinel Free includes 1 status page + 3 monitors at no cost forever. Custom-domain status pages on Business at $39/mo. 50 status pages with white-label on Agency at $149/mo for client work.