Cachet vs Instatus
On the evidence we track, Instatus leads this comparison with a composite score of 77/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for status pages. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Cachet
An open-source platform that enables organizations to host their own status pages for notifying customers and stakeholders about service availability and maintenance activities.
Instatus
LeaderA platform that monitors service availability in real-time, sends alerts to teams across multiple channels, and publishes status pages to keep customers informed during incidents.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Instatus
LeaderFrom $20/mo. Free tier available. 25% discount with annual billing.
- StarterFree
- 15 Monitors
- 2 min checks
- Email alerts
- 5 team members
- 2 on-call members
- +2 more
- Pro$20/mo
- 50 Monitors
- 30 sec checks
- Email & SMS alerts
- SAML SSO
- 50 team members
- +3 more
- BusinessContact sales
- 1,000 Monitors
- SMS & Calls alerts
- 50 on-call members
- All status pages
- 3+ custom domains
- +1 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- SCIM Directory Sync
- Priority customer support
- 99.99% Uptime SLA
- Multiple SSO connections
- Custom contracts
- +1 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
Cachet
- Slack
Instatus
Leader- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- Intercom
- Checkly
- Better Uptime
- HetrixTools
- Runscope
- Site24x7
- StatusCake
- Uptime Robot
- Updown.io
- Google Cloud Monitoring
- Dynatrace
- Prometheus
- Zendesk
- Zapier
- Jira
- Webhook
- API
- X
- Datadog
- PagerDuty
- Pingdom
- Grafana
- +1 more
Cachet or Instatus: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.