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Comparison

Instatus vs Status.io

No leader: the top candidate Status.io has only 0.12 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Instatus full profile →Status.io full profile →
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Instatus46
Status.io48
Score
Vioscale score
Instatus46 / 100low · 42%updating
Status.io48 / 100low · 12%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Instatus✓
Status.io–
Model
Instatusfreemium
Status.iocommercial
Price level
Instatuslow
Status.io–
Transparent
Instatus✗
Status.io–
Integrations
Count
Instatus21
Status.io31
Reliability
Status page
Instatus✓
Status.io✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for status pages. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Deployment model
Instatus-
Status.io-
Email subscribers
Instatus-
Status.io-
SMS subscribers
Instatus-
Status.io-
Slack webhook subscribers
Instatus-
Status.io-
Custom domain support
Instatus-
Status.io-
Custom css branding
Instatus-
Status.io-
Private status pages
Instatus-
Status.io-
SSO SAML auth
Instatus-
Status.io-
Component grouping
Instatus-
Status.io-
Maintenance scheduling
Instatus-
Status.io-
API incident automation
Instatus-
Status.io-
SOC2 type ii
Instatus-
Status.io-
Pricing model
Instatus-
Status.io-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Instatus

Instatus combines real-time service monitoring, team-based incident management, and customer status communication. It monitors uptime, sends alerts across multiple channels, and maintains a status page that automatically updates when issues occur.

Independently observed

Status.io

A hosted status page service that automates outage and maintenance notifications across multiple channels. It integrates with monitoring tools to automatically update component statuses, and offers full branding customization and private access controls.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Instatus

HybridFree tier

Free plan. Paid plans with 25% discount for annual billing

  • StarterFree
    • 15 monitors
    • 2 min check intervals
    • Email alerts
    • 5 team members
    • 2 on-call members
    • +3 more
  • Pro-
    • 50 monitors
    • 30 second check intervals
    • Email & SMS alerts
    • 50 team members
    • 20 on-call members
    • +2 more
  • Business-
    • 1,000 monitors
    • SMS & call alerts
    • Unlimited team members
    • 50 on-call members
    • 3+ custom domains
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • SCIM directory synchronization
    • Preferred customer support
    • 99.99% uptime SLA
    • Multiple SSO connections
    • Custom contracts
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Status.io

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Instatus✓
Status.io–

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (6)
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Site24x7
  • StatusCake
  • Uptime Robot
  • Dynatrace

Instatus

21 total - 15 not shared
  • Discord
  • Intercom
  • Checkly
  • Better Uptime
  • HetrixTools
  • Runscope
  • Updown.io
  • Google Cloud Monitoring
  • Prometheus
  • Zendesk
  • Zapier
  • Jira
  • Webhook
  • Email
  • API
Independently observed

Status.io

31 total - 25 not shared
  • Pingdom
  • New Relic
  • Nagios
  • Uptime.com
  • Datadog
  • LogicMonitor
  • Zabbix
  • OpsGenie
  • PagerDuty
  • Jira Service Management
  • Twilio
  • Amazon SES
  • Auth0
  • Azure
  • OneLogin
  • Okta
  • Google
  • YubiKey
  • Webhooks
  • Twitter/X
  • Email Triggers
  • IRC
  • iCalendar
  • RSS
  • +1 more
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.