Statuspage vs Status.io Pricing by Team Size and Subscribers

Atlassian Statuspage is cheaper than Status.io for a small team with a small audience, and Status.io is cheaper almost everywhere else. Up to 250 subscribers and five people posting updates, Statuspage Hobby is $29 a month against $79 for Status.io Basic. With eleven to twenty people on the incident team, Statuspage needs Business at $399 while Status.io Standard is $149. At 26 to 50 team members the gap is $1,150 a month, because Statuspage jumps to Enterprise at $1,499 and Status.io Plus stays at $349.

Both products do the same job. They publish incidents, maintenance and component status to a branded page, and they notify the people who subscribe. Neither checks whether your service is up, so both sit on top of a monitoring tool. That makes this a straight price comparison between two publish-only products, which is rarer than it sounds in this category. Every figure below is a US list price per page per month, read from atlassian.com/software/statuspage/pricing and status.io/pricing.

Statuspage vs Status.io plans side by side

Both vendors cap three things on every plan: subscribers, team members and metrics. The caps are hard limits, so the plan you pay for is decided by whichever one you hit first.

Read the team member column against the price column and the difference between the two vendors is plain. Status.io's middle plan holds 20 people for $149. Statuspage holds 10 for $99 and then asks $399 for 25. Status.io Plus gives 50 team members for $349, a number Statuspage only reaches on its $1,499 plan.

Which is cheaper, Statuspage or Status.io?

It depends on two numbers, so we priced both products across a grid of six subscriber counts (100 to 5,000) and six team sizes (2 to 50), assuming a custom domain and no other special features. Of those 36 combinations, Statuspage is cheaper in 10 and Status.io in 26. Statuspage wins whenever ten or fewer people post updates to no more than 1,000 subscribers, with one exception: at 251 to 500 subscribers and five people or fewer, Status.io Basic is $20 cheaper.

The row that matters most for engineering teams is the fourth one. A company with a modest customer list and a dozen engineers on call fits Statuspage Startup on subscribers and fails it on people, and Atlassian publishes no way to buy extra seats. The plan finder on our Atlassian Statuspage pricing calculator shows which cap sets your plan when you enter both numbers.

Where the features change the answer

Team size and audience are only half the decision. Several features are locked to a specific tier on each side, and they are not locked in the same places. If you need one of these, it can override everything in the table above.

Two lines stand out. Component subscriptions, which let a customer subscribe only to the parts of your service they use, cost $79 on Status.io and $399 on Statuspage. Team SSO goes the other way: $99 on Statuspage through Atlassian Guard, $349 on Status.io. If single sign-on is a security requirement and your team is ten people or fewer, Statuspage Startup is the cheaper compliant option by $250 a month.

Private pages need care. Statuspage sells them as a separate product with its own ladder, $79 for 50 employees up to $1,499 for 5,000, and every page is billed on its own plan. Status.io turns a page private with an identity provider or an IP allowlist on Plus, inside the same $349.

Statuspage vs Status.io annual pricing

Status.io takes 5% off for paying annually: Basic becomes $900.60 a year, Standard $1,698.60 and Plus $3,978.60. Atlassian prints no annual discount at all. Its pricing FAQ says yearly card billing is set up by hand with a signed order form, so a year of Statuspage costs twelve months: $348 on Hobby, $1,188 on Startup, $4,788 on Business and $17,988 on Enterprise.

Over a year, the team of 26 to 50 people pays $17,988 for Statuspage Enterprise or $3,978.60 for Status.io Plus. That $14,009 difference is larger than most monitoring budgets. Vendor price lists in this category also move without much notice, and if you are budgeting against one it is worth having a tool that watches a pricing page for changes so a renewal does not surprise you.

What neither Statuspage nor Status.io includes

Neither product detects an outage. Statuspage updates components when someone on the team does it, or when an integration you have wired up tells it to. Status.io calls the same thing Status Automation and links it to tools such as New Relic or Pingdom. Either way, the real price of a working setup is the status page plus a monitor, plus the integration between them, which is one more thing that can fail quietly during the outage it is meant to report.

That is the case for a tool that monitors and publishes from the same system. UptimeHub checks your sites, APIs and ports from six regions and drives a branded status page on your own domain from those checks, so the page changes state the moment a failure is confirmed. Every plan includes a page, from $24 a month billed yearly; Pro at $49 billed yearly adds unlimited pages and team members, so the seat cliff that shapes the Statuspage bill does not exist. See the UptimeHub plans for the details.

It is fair to say where the publish-only tools are better. Statuspage and Status.io are built around subscriber management: customers sign up for email or SMS updates, choose components, and get maintenance reminders. If thousands of customers expect to subscribe to your incidents, that is what you are paying for, and our page is not a replacement for it.

Statuspage vs Status.io, which should you choose?

Choose Statuspage if your incident team is ten people or fewer and you have up to 1,000 subscribers, if you need SSO on a small budget, or if your incident process already runs through Jira. The free plan is also the only zero-cost option of the two.

Choose Status.io if more than ten people post updates, if you have 1,001 to 2,000 subscribers, if you need component subscriptions without paying $399, or if you want a private mode without buying a second page. It is also the only one of the two with a published annual discount.

Choose a monitoring tool with a built-in page if what you really want is a page that is right without anyone touching it, and you are already paying separately for the monitoring. The wider field, twelve vendors priced on one basis, is in our status page pricing comparison, and teams leaving Atlassian can start with the Statuspage alternative that includes monitoring.

Frequently asked questions

Is Status.io cheaper than Statuspage?

Usually, yes. Across 36 combinations of subscribers and team size, Status.io is cheaper in 26. Statuspage wins only for small teams: up to ten people posting updates to no more than 1,000 subscribers, except at 251 to 500 subscribers with five people or fewer. The widest gap is $1,150 a month for 26 to 50 team members.

Does Status.io have a free plan?

No. Status.io starts at $79 a month for Basic with 500 subscribers and five team members, and every plan includes a custom domain. Atlassian Statuspage has a free public plan for 100 subscribers and two team members, without a custom domain.

Do Statuspage or Status.io monitor my website?

Neither does. Both publish the status you or an integration set. To change status automatically you connect a separate monitoring tool, which adds a second subscription and an integration to maintain. Tools such as UptimeHub run the checks and update the page from the same system.

How many team members do Statuspage and Status.io include?

Statuspage includes 2, 5, 10, 25 and 50 team members on Free, Hobby, Startup, Business and Enterprise. Status.io includes 5, 20 and 50 on Basic, Standard and Plus. Neither publishes a price for an extra seat, so a larger team means a larger plan.