Uptimeify vs. Instatus
Instatus puts status page, monitoring and on-call in one tool, even on its free plan. A custom domain and private pages, though, only start in the paid tiers, and your data sits primarily in the US. On Uptimeify, your status page is permanently free, on your own domain and hosted in the EU.
For agencies and MSPs
- Permanently free, with no tiers based on subscribers
- Your own domain from day one
- Private pages with login, SSO or password at no charge
- Each audience sees only its own components, at no charge
- Hosted in the EU, with a data processing agreement
For SaaS and DevOps teams
- Free up to 200 subscribers, then from $20 a month
- Custom domain from $20 a month
- Private pages only on paid plans, SAML SSO from $300 a month
- Audience-specific pages only on paid plans
- Data stored primarily in the US
As of November 2026. Details on Instatus are based on publicly available information and may change. Prices in the source's original currency with monthly billing, not converted. If something is wrong, we are glad to hear about it.
In short
Instatus is built for SaaS and DevOps teams who monitor their own service and show its status to their users. Monitoring, on-call and the status page come from one place, and getting started costs nothing.
Once you run status pages for your clients, the picture changes. The free plan stops at 200 subscribers and has no custom domain. Private pages and audience groups only come with paid plans, SAML SSO only with Business at $300 a month. And according to its privacy policy, Instatus stores data primarily in the US.
Uptimeify starts right there: one status page per client, on that client's domain and under your brand, hosted in the EU and permanently free. If you want monitoring behind it later, you add it on the same platform.
Feature by feature
As of November 2026. Details on Instatus are based on publicly available information and may change. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Where Uptimeify leads
Three things the big players solve differently, and that we built for your agency.
Hosted in the EU instead of data stored in the US. Instatus names Amazon Web Services in Ohio and North Virginia as its primary data store, and Vercel serves its status pages from the US with a global edge network. Uptimeify's core infrastructure is spread across several providers and locations in the EU and comes with a data processing agreement, so you can give your client's procurement a clear answer.
A custom domain without changing plans. On Instatus, a custom domain needs the Pro plan at $20 a month. On Uptimeify, you create a page per client on that client's domain with automatic HTTPS, so every page looks like part of their brand from day one.
Private pages and audience groups at no charge. Instatus unlocks private pages and audience groups only on paid plans, and SAML SSO only on Business at $300. On Uptimeify, you protect a page with login, SSO, a password or an IP allowlist of up to 50 addresses or networks, so your clients' internal services never go public.
Where Instatus wins
No tool wins everywhere. Three points where Instatus is the better choice.
Monitoring on the free plan. Besides the status page, the Starter plan includes 15 monitors with 2-minute checks, five team members and two on-call members.
More channels for subscribers. On top of email, Slack, Teams and webhook, Instatus sends updates to Discord, Google Chat and X, and by SMS through your own SMS provider.
Multiple languages and metrics. From Pro, the page gets a language switcher with your own translation file, and metrics from Datadog, Pingdom, New Relic or Prometheus show right on the status page.
Frequently asked questions
The Starter plan is free: a public status page without a custom domain, 200 subscribers, 15 monitors and five team members. Pro costs $20 a month with a custom domain and 5,000 subscribers, Business $300 with SAML SSO, all page types and 25,000 subscribers. With yearly billing, that is $15 and $225 a month, and Enterprise is priced on request. On Uptimeify, your status page is permanently free.
Yes, by hand. There is no automatic import at the moment. You create components and groups in the editor or via API, move your domain with a TXT record and a CNAME, and invite your subscribers again, because every subscription with us only becomes active after confirmation.
Primarily in the US. Instatus, Inc. is based in the US and names Amazon Web Services in Ohio (us-east-2) and North Virginia (us-east-1) as its primary data store. Status pages and custom domains are served by Vercel, located in the US with a global edge network. For transfers from the EEA, Instatus relies on Standard Contractual Clauses. On Uptimeify, the core infrastructure sits with several providers and locations in the EU.
Nothing. Logo, colors, layout and domain are yours, and the page does not name Uptimeify. The optional "Powered by" line shows your own product name, and you can switch it off.
Yes, permanently. It needs no paid plan, no trial and no monitoring. If your monitoring ends, the page stays online and free.
No. You maintain components by hand or via API, and for third-party services you can add over 100 providers such as Hetzner, IONOS and Cloudflare. If you add monitoring on Uptimeify, components follow your monitors automatically, and you can try it for 14 days first.
For the technical evaluator
From Instatus to a status page hosted in the EU
Create your first page, connect your client's domain and check it all in the preview. Your clients see your brand, and the page is hosted in the EU.