About
OpenStatus connects external service monitoring with the communication that follows an outage. Teams can monitor endpoints from multiple regions, publish a status page and coordinate incident updates through connected tools. This reduces the gap between noticing a failure and explaining its impact to customers. The service is especially relevant to small software and API teams that want monitoring and customer-facing status information together. Paid plans increase monitor counts, checking frequency and retention, while higher tiers add private locations and additional operational controls. It is not a substitute for every part of an observability stack: application traces and deep debugging may still live elsewhere. The useful question is whether its checks and incident workflow cover the services customers actually depend on.
Editor's note
OpenStatus offers a clear path from a small free setup to multi-region monitoring with team collaboration. The free ten-minute interval is better for lightweight projects than time-sensitive production detection. Include branding and access-control add-ons in the budget before comparing headline plan prices.
Key features
- Multi-region endpoint monitoring
- Public status pages and incident updates
- Slack-based incident workflow
- Paid private locations and extended retention
Pricing
Free Hobby plan. Starter $30/month, Pro $100/month and Scale $500/month; annual billing available.
Hobby
$0 / free plan
- 1 monitor
- 1 status page
- 3 components
- 10-minute minimum interval
Starter
$30 / per month
- 20 monitors
- 1 status page
- 1-minute checks
- 3-month retention
Pro
$100 / per month
- 50 monitors
- 5 status pages
- 30-second checks
- 12-month retention
Scale
$500 / per month
- 50 monitors
- 10 status pages
- 24-month retention
- White-label included
Frequently asked
- Are paid plans priced per team member?
- The published paid plans include unlimited team members. Monitor counts, status pages and add-ons are more important cost drivers than headcount.
- Is single sign-on included in the base price?
- The pricing table lists SSO/SAML as a $250 monthly add-on across Starter, Pro and Scale. Other access and branding options also vary by plan.
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