Freshstatus vs openstatus

Freshstatus is a web-based status page service for publishing incident updates and planned maintenance. Teams can use a custom domain, create private status pages, schedule maintenance, and communicate through multiple subscriber channels. The free plan is listed at free, and official support documentation says it remains free. Freshstatus is associated with Freshworks Inc.; its privacy notice applies to the web platform and mobile applications. Support is available at [email protected], with phone numbers listed for the US, India, UK, and Australia. Freshworks says it continues adding engagement and support features, and introduced Freshsuccess as a separate product for retaining and growing existing-customer revenue. A browser warning reported a certificate-name mismatch for freshstatus.io. The reported certificate subject was *.freshstatus.io, the issuer was Amazon RSA 2048 M04, and the expiry date was 5 February 2027.

Openstatus is an open-source platform for uptime monitoring and status pages. It checks websites, APIs, and services from 28 regions across multiple cloud providers. Automation options include a CLI, typed API with OpenAPI, Node SDK, MCP server, and Terraform management. Status pages can support custom domains, themes, subscribers, locale switching, and maintenance status, depending on the plan. The free Hobby plan includes one monitor, one status page, three components, and checks no more often than every 10 minutes. Starter costs $30 a month, or $300/year ($25/mo) when billed annually, with 20 monitors, one-minute checks, a custom domain, and subscribers. The platform is available on web and can be self-hosted with Docker under the AGPL-3.0 license. Paid plans include selected notifications such as Slack, email, webhook, WhatsApp, PagerDuty, and OpsGenie. Openstatus was founded in 2023 and is built by a self-funded two-person team.