When Instatus is the right choice
You want monitoring, on-call and a public status page together, and the published Starter allowances fit your project.
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ALTERNATIVE TO
Instatus
Hosted monitoring, on-call and status pages in one service.
Pricing at a glance
Vendor information checked on 7 September 2026. Both vendors update pricing over time — verify on the vendor's own site before purchasing.
Free15 monitors, 2-minute checks, public status page, 200 subscribers
PaidPro includes 50 monitors, 30-second checks and custom domains; see current vendor pricing
ZnowPulseFree plan, flat-rate Pro. Live pricing on our pricing page.
Checked against the vendor's own published pricing: Instatus pricing
Feature comparison
Read across the rows; columns are vendors. Cells are short facts, and the sources above link to the vendor's own published pricing for anything more nuanced than a line.
| Feature | Instatus | ZnowPulse |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited monitors on free | 15 monitors | Unlimited monitors |
| Check interval (free) | 2 minutes | 5 minutes (10s on Pro) |
| Alert channels on free | Email alerts on Free; SMS on Pro | Email and configured delivery integrations; provider charges may apply |
| Hosted status page on free | Yes — Instatus is the status page | Requires Pro |
| Custom status-page domain | See vendor plans for custom domains | Hosted URL; no custom-domain setting |
| Incident management / post-mortems | On-call and status-page incident updates | Incident timeline + post-mortems |
| SSO / SAML | Not confirmed here | No SAML SSO |
| Public API | See vendor API documentation | 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.