openstatus vs Statuslane

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.

Statuslane is a hosted status page, uptime monitor, and incident communications service for operators and software teams. Users can create a page on a Statuslane subdomain, and monitoring supports HTTP and TCP checks with automatic incident drafting after a failed check. Notifications include email, Slack, webhooks, RSS, and SMS, with double opt-in and one-click unsubscribe. Statuslane also provides a public API for incidents, an embeddable badge, and RSS and Atom feeds. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one public page, five monitors checked every five minutes, and 100 email subscribers. Starter costs €15 a month, billed monthly, adding a custom domain with automatic TLS, ten one-minute monitors, unlimited email subscribers, and removed branding. Growth costs €39 a month; Scale costs €89 a month. Paid plans include a 14-day trial without a card.