openstatus vs Uptrends

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.

Uptrends monitors websites, web applications, APIs and servers for availability and performance. Synthetic checks run from more than 230 ISP-based locations, with private locations also available. Monitor types include uptime, browser, transaction and API checks; customers allocate monitoring credits across types, and credits do not expire during the annual term. The service supports HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Ping, DNS, FTP, Connect, SQL and MySQL. It can automate multi-step checks for identity-driven journeys using SSO or MFA. Alerts can go through email, SMS/text, phone/voice, mobile push, messaging and incident platforms, webhooks or the API. iOS and Android apps show monitoring data and can send push notifications. Core costs $42 a month with annual billing and includes 10 users, US and EU checkpoint regions, uptime checks every two minutes, browser checks every 15 minutes, ticket support and 180 days of data retention. Pro costs $60 a month with annual billing. There is no free plan, but a 30-day trial is available.