StatusPulse vs Statuspage.io
Same job — public status pages, incident comms, subscriber management. StatusPulse adds first-class monitoring (HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket, Postgres, and more) in the same product, runs in US or EU regions, and costs about 70% less at the Pro tier.
Prices and feature lists last verified 2026-05-21. Vendor pricing can change — check both pricing pages before deciding.
At a glance
~70%
Cheaper at Pro
StatusPulse Pro is $19/mo. Statuspage.io Standard starts around $99/mo annual (~$120/mo if you pay monthly) — for a feature set most teams treat as equivalent.
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Probe types built in
HTTP, gRPC Health, WebSocket, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Redis, DNS, SSL, Domain expiry, SMTP/IMAP. Statuspage.io is a status-page tool — bring your own monitoring vendor.
US or EU
Hosting region
Each StatusPulse tenant runs in either US or EU Azure regions — surface it on your DPA or SOC 2 review. Statuspage.io is hosted in the US.
Pricing for a typical team
A team running ~15 probes + a public status page on a custom domain, with email subscribers, Slack alerts, and PDF reports. Annual pricing assumed where each vendor offers a discount.
| StatusPulse Pro | Statuspage.io Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price (billed monthly) | $19 / mo | ~$120 / mo |
| Annual price (saves ~17%) | $190 / yr (~$16/mo) | ~$99 / mo billed annually |
| Probes / monitors included | 50 | 0 (BYO monitoring vendor) |
| Status pages | 5 | 1 (more requires Business) |
| Public subscribers (email) | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Custom domain + auto-HTTPS | Included | Included |
| SMS alerts | Pay-per-use (low rate) | $$/credit packs |
| AI incident summary | Included | Add-on |
| Effective total / mo (typical team) | $19 — all-in | $99 status page + $30-200 monitoring = $130-300 |
The "all-in" line is the practical comparison: Statuspage.io is a status-page tool only. To actually detect outages you also pay a monitoring vendor (Pingdom, BetterStack, Datadog Synthetics, etc.) in parallel. StatusPulse bundles both at the headline price.
Feature matrix
| Feature | StatusPulse | Statuspage.io |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | ||
| Public read-only status page | Yes | Yes |
| Custom domain + auto HTTPS | Pro+ | Standard+ |
| Custom branding (logo, colours, font) | Pro+ | Standard+ |
| Public subscribers (email) | Yes | Yes |
| Public subscribers (SMS, webhook, Slack) | Yes | Yes |
| RSS / Atom / iCal feeds | Yes | Yes |
| Status badge (SVG + shields.io JSON) | Free+ | Yes (shareable badge) |
| Embeddable widget + oEmbed | Free+ (zero-asset iframe) | Yes (embed code) |
| Component groups | Free+ (flat, SortOrder) | Yes (Subgroups, nested) |
| Monitoring — built-in | ||
| HTTP / HTTPS probes | Free+ | No (BYO) |
| gRPC Health probes | Pro+ | No |
| WebSocket probes | Pro+ | No |
| Database probes (Postgres / MySQL / SQL Server / Redis) | Business | No |
| SMTP/IMAP round-trip probe | Pro+ | No |
| DNS record probe | Starter+ | No |
| SSL certificate expiry probe | Free+ | No |
| Domain expiry (WHOIS/RDAP) probe | Starter+ | No |
| TCP port probe | Starter+ | No |
| Ping (ICMP) probe | Starter+ | No |
| Heartbeat / cron probe | Starter+ | No |
| Anomaly forecast (ML) | Business | No |
| Incidents | ||
| Auto-incident from probe transitions | Yes | No (no built-in probes) |
| Manual incident updates | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled maintenance windows | Yes | Yes |
| Post-mortem editor | Yes | Yes |
| AI-drafted incident summaries | Pro+ | Add-on |
| SLO / error-budget impact per incident | Pro+ | No (no built-in probes) |
| Anomaly-driven incident proposals | Business | No (no anomaly ML) |
| Internal-only incidents | Free+ | No (customer-facing only) |
| Severity escalation (auto-page on stale incident) | Pro+ | Opsgenie add-on |
| Public trust score panel (MTTR / postmortem rate) | Free+ | No |
| Incident metrics dashboard (MTTR, time-to-first-update) | Free+ (30/90/365-day windows) | Atlassian Intelligence basics |
| Incident CSV export (metadata + components + timeline + SLO) | Starter+ (RFC 4180-escaped) | No |
| Compliance & hosting | ||
| EU hosting option | Yes | No (US only) |
| GDPR-friendly DPA | Yes | Yes (under Atlassian) |
| SOC 2 report | In progress | SOC 2 Type II |
| Single sign-on (SAML) | Phase B (planned) | Yes (Business+) |
| Audit log of admin actions | Yes (90-day retention) | Yes |
| Reports & analytics | ||
| PDF reports (uptime / SLA) | Yes (4 cadences, 14 sections) | Limited |
| AI executive summary in reports | Business | No |
| Scheduled report delivery | Yes | No |
| Integrations | ||
| Slack alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Teams alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Atlassian Jira / Opsgenie (deep) | Webhook | Native |
| Generic webhook (HMAC-signed + retry) | Pro+ | Yes |
| Custom request headers per webhook | Pro+ (PagerDuty / Opsgenie ready) | Yes |
| On-call rotation builder | Pro+ (weekly rotation + escalation policies) | No (defers to Opsgenie / external pager) |
| Custom Reply-To on alert emails | Business (route Reply to support@your-co) | Enterprise |
| Developer / API & compliance | ||
| Public read API (status / incidents / probes) | Free+ | Yes |
| Audit log API export (cursor-paginated) | Business | Yes (Business+) |
| SSO domain lock (Microsoft + Google work accounts) | Business | Yes (Business+, SAML) |
| White-label (hide "Powered by" + custom footer) | Business | Business+ |
Which one is right for you?
Pick Statuspage.io if…
- You live in the Atlassian ecosystem. Jira incidents, Opsgenie escalations, Confluence post-mortems all flow natively. The deep integration is real and hard to replicate.
- You serve millions of public subscribers and need a vendor that's been proving the scale story for 10+ years.
- Your procurement requires SOC 2 Type II today and a Fortune 500 reference list.
- You already have monitoring (Datadog, New Relic, Pingdom) and just want a dedicated status-page front-end.
Pick StatusPulse if…
- You want monitoring + status page in one tool, not a three-vendor stack to budget for, integrate, and explain to finance.
- Your stack includes databases, gRPC services, or WebSockets that need real protocol-level probes — not a generic HTTP ping that lies when the underlying connection is broken.
- EU hosting matters for your DPA, your customers in regulated industries, or your team's preference for data sovereignty.
- You're already paying Statuspage.io $200+/mo and the math no longer makes sense — same job, fraction of the price.
- You want AI-drafted incident summaries and predictive anomaly forecasts out of the box, not as paid add-ons.
- You're a small team that wants to skip the enterprise procurement dance — sign up with a card, no demo required.
Switching from Statuspage.io
You don't have to rip and replace. The pragmatic path most teams take:
- Sign up for the free plan. Add 5 probes — the services you care most about. Keep Statuspage.io running in parallel.
- Wire alerts to your existing Slack channel. If StatusPulse catches an incident before or at the same time as Statuspage.io's external monitoring, you have signal.
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Set up a parallel public status page on a sub-domain
(e.g.
status-v2.example.com) and share with internal stakeholders for a week. - Cut over the public DNS when you're confident — flip the CNAME from Statuspage.io's domain to your StatusPulse-hosted domain. Subscribers carry forward via export/import.
- Cancel the Statuspage.io renewal. Most teams pocket the difference within the first month.
Try StatusPulse free
5 probes, 1 status page, forever. No credit card. US or EU host — you choose.