Comparison
IncidentFlare vs Atlassian Statuspage
Statuspage is the default answer for “we need a status page”, and for a company with an incident team it is a fine one. For a team of one to three people the pricing is awkward in a specific way: the free plan cannot use your own domain, and no plan tells you that you are down.
The short version
Statuspage is a publishing tool. You tell it something broke; it tells your customers beautifully. IncidentFlare covers the two steps before that: noticing, and waking someone up. Those steps are why a status page goes stale — not because the page is bad, but because nobody remembers to update it at 3am.
| On the free plan | IncidentFlare | Statuspage |
|---|---|---|
| Status page on your own domain | Free | $29/mo — the cheapest paid tier (Hobby) |
| Components | 5 | 25 — they win here |
| Subscribers emailed on updates | 100, double opt-in | 100 |
| Uptime checks that notice the outage | 10 HTTP monitors, free | None — Statuspage never probes your service |
| On-call paging with escalation | Free, 3 steps with acknowledge | Not part of the product (Opsgenie is a separate purchase) |
| Inbound webhooks from Sentry or Grafana | Free, parsed natively | Via the API, which you write yourself |
| Team members | 1 (single account today) | 2 free, 5 on Hobby — they win here |
| Billing model | Free plan, no card | Per page: public from $29, private from $79, audience-specific from $300 |
Published prices and limits as of August 2026. Vendors change them; check theirs before you decide, and tell us if this table is out of date.
The bill nobody quotes
A status page on your own domain is the whole point — customers will not trust a link on someone else’s domain during an outage. On Statuspage that is the Hobby plan at $29 a month, billed per page. Then you still need something to detect the outage, and something to page you. Three tools, one of them paid, to answer “is it down and does anyone know”.
Here it is one tool and $0: the check fails twice, your escalation policy pages Slack and then your phone’s inbox, the public incident opens on status.yourapp.com by itself, and confirmed subscribers get the email. You write the human update when you have one.
A hub, not another pipeline
You already have tools that know something is wrong: Sentry sees the exception spike, Grafana sees the queue backing up, your deploy pipeline knows the migration failed. Nothing replaces them. IncidentFlare gives each of them an ingest URL, understands the payloads Sentry and Grafana already send, and turns them into one alert, one escalation, and one public incident. Statuspage can do the last part through its API — after you write and maintain that glue yourself.
When Statuspage is the right answer
- You need audience-specific or authenticated pages — enterprise customers who each see their own environment. We do not have that at any price.
- You have thousands of subscribers, dozens of components, SLA metrics pulled from Datadog or New Relic, and per-component subscriptions.
- You are already inside Atlassian — Jira, Opsgenie, Confluence — and the incident workflow lives there.
- Procurement needs a vendor with a security questionnaire on file and a support contract. That is not a two-person product yet, and we would rather say so.
When to use IncidentFlare instead
- You are one to three people and nobody is paid to watch dashboards.
- You want status.yourapp.com without a monthly invoice for the privilege.
- You want the page to update itself when a check fails, and to page a human at the same time.
- You already run Sentry or Grafana and want their alerts to land somewhere that escalates and publishes.
Questions
- Is Atlassian Statuspage free?
- There is a free plan: 100 subscribers, 25 components, 2 team members, 2 metrics, email and Slack notifications, and the REST API. What it does not include is a custom domain — that starts at $29/month on the Hobby plan — and it never includes monitoring, because Statuspage does not check whether your service is up.
- What does Statuspage actually cost for a small team?
- For a two-person SaaS that wants status.yourapp.com, the honest total is $29/month for Hobby, plus whatever you pay to detect outages, plus whatever pages a human at 3am. Statuspage is the display layer; the detection and paging layers are separate line items.
- Can I move my Statuspage to IncidentFlare?
- Recreate your components, point the same CNAME at us and verify, and keep the old page up for a week. The part that does not move is your subscriber list: everyone has to confirm again by email, because we only send to addresses that opted in here. That is a real cost of switching and worth planning around.
Also worth reading: IncidentFlare vs PagerDuty and how to run a free status page for a SaaS.