openstatus vs StillUp

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.

StillUp is a web-based service for monitoring websites and HTTP or HTTPS endpoints, including REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, health checks, and webhooks. Monitors run every minute on every plan, including Free. StillUp compares each response status with an expected code, defaulting to 200, and reports an outage when the code differs or a request times out after the default 10-second limit. Alerts are available by email, Slack, Discord, and Telegram on all plans, with detection alerts and recovery notices. Public status pages display monitor status, uptime percentages, and active incidents; dashboard users can post timestamped incident updates. Custom domains are available on every plan, with SSL provisioned after CNAME configuration. Free costs nothing for three monitors and seven days of history. Pro costs $9 a month for 50 monitors and 90 days; Business costs $29 a month for 200 monitors and 90 days.