openstatus vs StatusEntry

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.

StatusEntry is a hosted status page and incident communication tool for businesses. It lets teams share service status with public audiences and employees through a hosted page and communication channels including email, webhooks, Slack, and Twitter. Teams can schedule maintenance, notify subscribers and employees, and create a maintenance-impact incident for monitoring. The service shows uptime history and offers an embeddable status badge that displays the latest status on hover and links to the public page. Its API supports listing, retrieving, creating, updating, and deleting incidents; documented states run from investigating to resolved, with impact values from none to critical. Every listed pricing tier includes a subdomain with SSL. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one user, two services, and unlimited status updates. Startup is $9.99 a month, Business is $19.99 a month, and Enterprise is $39.99 a month. A 30-day trial provides enterprise features, requires no credit card, and can be followed by the free package without a time limit.