When Instatus is the right choice
You only need the status page and you already have monitoring (or a third-party tool you want to forward to Instatus). The template editor is genuinely good.
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ALTERNATIVE TO
Instatus
A dedicated status-page product, originally from a team that builds SaaS dashboards.
Pricing at a glance
Publicly listed prices as of the page publication date. Both vendors update pricing over time — verify on the vendor's own site before purchasing.
Free1 status page, 25 subscribers, no monitoring included
PaidFrom $20/month for custom domains and subscriber analyticsbilled monthly
ZnowPulse$0 on free. $5.99/month or $59.99/year on Pro.billed monthly
Feature comparison
Read across the rows; columns are vendors. Cells are short facts — links go to the vendor's own documentation where the answer is anything more nuanced than a single line.
| Feature | Instatus | ZnowPulse |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited monitors on free | Status page only — no monitoring | Unlimited monitors |
| Check interval (free) | n/a (Instatus is the status page, not the monitors) | 5 minutes (10s on Pro) |
| Alert channels on free | Subscribers get email/SMS/webhook; you wire monitors separately | 15 integrations on Free; PagerDuty and Opsgenie on Pro |
| Hosted status page on free | Yes — Instatus is the status page | Hosted status page on free |
| Custom status-page domain | Custom domain on paid plans | Custom domain on Pro |
| Incident management / post-mortems | Components and components-by-template | Incident timeline + post-mortems |
| SSO / SAML | Not on free | On Pro |
| Public API | Public REST + GraphQL API | Public REST API |
When ZnowPulse is the right choice
You'd rather have one subscription that does both monitoring and the status page, with the same incident timeline feeding both — and you don't want to pay for the status page on top of monitoring.
Try ZnowPulse on the free plan.
Unlimited monitors, one Nexus Point on Free, unlimited Nexus Points on Pro, and alert delivery options. No card, no countdown.