Looking for a Instatus alternative?
Instatus is a status page service that bundles monitors on every plan. UpPage is a focused status page with website checks, heartbeats and team alerts built in, and an MCP server so your AI agent can run it.
What Instatus costs
- The free Starter plan has no custom domain and includes 15 monitors.
- A custom domain starts on Pro, from $20 per month with 50 monitors. Yearly billing is 25% off.
- The pricing page doesn’t mention removing Instatus branding.
From Instatus’s pricing page ↗, checked October 30, 2026. Prices change, so check the source before you decide.
What UpPage costs
- Free: one hosted page, 3 components, 1 heartbeat and website checks every 5 minutes. No card required.
- Pro adds your own domain for $5/mo billed yearly ($9 monthly), with 10 components and checks every minute.
- White Label adds your logo and favicon and removes the UpPage link for $16/mo billed yearly ($29 monthly), with 20 components.
- Every plan includes the REST API and an MCP server, so an AI agent can set up and update your page.
When Instatus is the better fit
- More monitors on every plan, including 15 on Free.
- You need checks from several locations. UpPage checks from a single location; you can connect another monitoring tool by webhook.
- You need email subscriptions for your customers. UpPage offers RSS and Atom feeds today.
When UpPage is the better fit
- You want your status page on your own domain without paying for a monitoring suite.
- You want an AI agent to set up monitors and post incident updates through MCP.
- You want the page to stay up when your systems don’t: public pages are served from a published snapshot, not a live database query.