# Instatus vs Status.io

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Instatus

| Attribute | Instatus | Status.io |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 76.5 (50% (medium)) | 49.3 (19% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Instatus is a status page service that helps teams communicate system incidents and maintenance to customers. It integrates with monitoring tools, incident management platforms, and team communication services, allowing automated incident creation and subscriber notifications. It is indexed under Status Pages.","source":"https://instatus.com/es/pricing","question":"What is Instatus?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Instatus offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Starter, Pro and Business. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://instatus.com/es/pricing","question":"Is Instatus free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Instatus. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://instatus.com/de/pricing","question":"What platforms does Instatus support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Instatus, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://instatus.com/es/pricing","question":"Can Instatus be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 25 integrations for Instatus, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Intercom, Checkly, Better Uptime, HetrixTools and Runscope, plus 17 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://instatus.com/es/pricing","question":"What does Instatus integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Instatus is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://instatus.com/de/pricing","question":"Where is Instatus available?","confidence":0.5}]` | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | - |
| description.long | A 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"pricing_model":"freemium","sso_saml_auth":true,"sms_subscribers":true,"deployment_model":"saas","email_subscribers":true,"component_grouping":true,"private_status_pages":true,"custom_domain_support":true,"api_incident_automation":true,"slack_webhook_subscribers":true}` | - |
| integrations.count | 27 | 31 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Checkly"},{"name":"Better Uptime"},{"name":"HetrixTools"},{"name":"Runscope"},{"name":"Site24x7"},{"name":"StatusCake"},{"name":"Uptime Robot"},{"name":"Updown.io"},{"name":"Google Cloud Monitoring"},{"name":"Dynatrace"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Zendesk"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"API"},{"name":"X","native":true,"category":"social","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Datadog","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Pingdom","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Grafana","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"New Relic","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Pingdom"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Site24x7"},{"name":"Nagios"},{"name":"StatusCake"},{"name":"UptimeRobot"},{"name":"Uptime.com"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"LogicMonitor"},{"name":"Dynatrace"},{"name":"Zabbix"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Jira Service Management"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Twilio"},{"name":"Amazon SES"},{"name":"Auth0"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"OneLogin"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Google"},{"name":"YubiKey"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"Twitter/X"},{"name":"Email Triggers"},{"name":"IRC"},{"name":"iCalendar"},{"name":"RSS"},{"name":"Passkeys"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Starter","summary":"Free","features":["15 Monitors","2 min checks","Email alerts","5 team members","2 on-call members","Public status page","200 subscribers"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monitors":"15","subscribers":"200","team_members":"5","check_interval":"2 min","on_call_members":"2"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$20/mo","features":["50 Monitors","30 sec checks","Email & SMS alerts","SAML SSO","50 team members","20 on-call members","1+ custom domain","5,000 subscribers"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monitors":"50","subscribers":"5,000","team_members":"50","check_interval":"30 sec","custom_domains":"1+","on_call_members":"20"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["1,000 Monitors","SMS & Calls alerts","50 on-call members","All status pages","3+ custom domains","25,000 subscribers"],"contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"monitors":"1,000","subscribers":"25,000","custom_domains":"3+","on_call_members":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales","features":["SCIM Directory Sync","Priority customer support","99.99% Uptime SLA","Multiple SSO connections","Custom contracts","Custom policies"],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $20/mo. Free tier available. 25% discount with annual billing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://instatus.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T21:35:58.500Z","startingPrice":{"amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | mid | - |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":20,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Status Pages)

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

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:31:55.870Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*