Status page · updated October 23, 2026
A Hund alternative you pay for once
Hund has no free plan, only a 30-day trial. Its pricing page says it starts at $29 a month for one status page with 20 components, and the extras are priced per page or per month: an embeddable page is $5 a page, privacy controls are $70 a page, and single sign-on is $100 a month. If you run one product and want a page that tells customers when something is down, $29 a month adds up to $348 a year for a page that is quiet most weeks.
DurianStatus covers the plain version of that job: a public page, incidents, scheduled maintenance, an uptime check and email updates to subscribers. It costs $39 once, or $79 once for more pages and more checks. This page puts Hund's published numbers next to ours, shows the arithmetic, and lists what Hund does that we do not. Hund is a serious product for engineering teams, and for some of you that list is the reason to stay.
DurianStatus is a good fit if
- You run one product, or a few, and customers mostly need current status, past incidents and an email when something changes
- You pay Hund for one status page and a handful of components, and never use its other channels
- A check every 5 minutes that opens an incident after 3 failures is enough monitoring for you
- You would rather make one payment than carry $348 a year, plus add-ons, for a page that mostly sits idle
Stay on Hund if
- You need text messages, Microsoft Teams or web push for your subscribers, or an on-call tool such as PagerDuty feeding the page
- You need checks every 30 seconds, TCP or DNS checks, or probes in many regions
- You need single sign-on, several people with their own roles, or pages for different audiences managed through an API
What Hund costs
Prices from Hund's public pricing page, in USD, checked on October 23, 2026. Taxes excluded. Vendors change prices; follow the source links to see today's.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Status page (1 page, 20 components)source, 2026-10-23 | $29/mo | n/a |
| Privacy controls add-onsource, 2026-10-23 | $99/mo | n/a |
| DurianStatus | $39 once, or in the $49 bundle | |
The math over 1, 3 and 5 years
The $29 starting price for one page with 20 components is the cheapest Hund option and matches what DurianStatus Solo does for one project. Hund's pricing page shows a monthly figure only, so no yearly rate is used, and add-ons are left out of the comparison because many sites do not need them.
1 year
$348
Hund Status page (1 page, 20 components)
$39
DurianStatus
3 years
$1,044
Hund Status page (1 page, 20 components)
$39
DurianStatus
5 years
$1,740
Hund Status page (1 page, 20 components)
$39
DurianStatus
Hund Status page (1 page, 20 components) at $29/month, assuming today's price never goes up. DurianStatus is a single $39 payment.
What DurianStatus does
Only features that exist in DurianStatus today. If it isn't in this table, assume we don't have it.
| Feature | DurianStatus | Hund |
|---|---|---|
| Public status page per project at /s/<slug> with name, description, website link and brand color, and an overall banner (all systems operational or what is affected) | Included | Yes, one page from $29 a month; unlimited public and private pages, each one billed |
| Open an incident with impact level and affected components, post updates (investigating, identified, monitoring, resolved) and resolve it, shown as a timeline | Included | Yes, a timeline of issues and updates with investigating, identified, monitoring and resolved, plus retrospective issues |
| Schedule maintenance windows with start and end: the monitors of the affected components pause during the window (no false alert, not counted as downtime, shown as maintenance in the 90-day bars), the window starts and ends by itself, subscribers can be emailed at start and end (optional), and upcoming maintenance shows on the page in each visitor's time zone | Included | Yes, scheduled windows with subscribers notified before they begin |
| Per-component HTTP GET or HEAD check against a public http(s) URL, run every 5 minutes from a single location, 10-second timeout, up means HTTP 200-399 | Included | Yes, native checks for HTTP(S), TCP ports and DNS from several regions; 30-second checks cost extra |
| Visitors subscribe by email with double opt-in confirmation and get emails when an incident is opened, updated or resolved, with a one-click unsubscribe link | Included | Yes, subscribers choose components and event types; its managed mail provider is billed from $0.03 a month, using your own mail provider is free |
| Heartbeat checks for cron jobs and backups: your job pings a secret URL (optional /start and /fail); if no ping arrives in time you are alerted by email, Slack, Discord or webhook, and if the heartbeat is attached to a component the status page opens an incident; heartbeats not attached to a component are never public; they count toward the plan's checks (5 on Solo, 25 on Pro) | Included | Yes, a dead man's switch webhook starts an outage when a job misses its check-in |
| Pro: serve your status page on your own domain (add it in the page settings, set the TXT proof and the CNAME or A record shown, verify) | Included | Yes, a custom domain with HTTPS is listed among the included features |
| Pro: make a status page private with a password (at least 10 characters); visitors without it see a sign-in gate, the widget and the JSON feed are closed | Included | Yes, privacy controls at $70 a page on top of the $29 |
| Incident templates: save incident and maintenance messages as templates and start a new incident or maintenance from one | Included | Yes, issue and update templates with variables |
| Write API for paid accounts: API keys can be read-only (the default) or write; a write key opens an incident, posts updates, resolves it and sets a component's status, and subscribers get the same emails as when you do it from the dashboard; Idempotency-Key header supported; 60 requests a minute | Included | Yes, a REST API for the incident lifecycle is listed as included |
Where Hund is better
Monitoring depth and regions
Hund's features page lists native checks for HTTP(S), TCP ports and DNS from a network of probes in several regions, and its pricing page sells 30-second components for $1 a month. DurianStatus runs HTTP checks every 5 minutes from one region and confirms from a second region before an incident opens. If you need to see a regional problem or catch a failure within a minute, Hund does the job and we do not.
Alerts from your existing tools
Hund can update a component from alerts sent by PagerDuty, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, Pingdom and Uptime Robot. DurianStatus does not connect to those products, so a team that already routes alerts through an on-call tool will feel the gap.
More ways to reach subscribers
Hund lists email, SMS, webhooks, Slack, Microsoft Teams, web push and Atom or RSS feeds, each with its own rules. DurianStatus sends email, posts to Slack and Discord, and calls a signed webhook, and every public page has RSS and Atom feeds. There are no text messages, no Teams and no web push.
Access control and audiences
Hund lists single sign-on, role-based access control and unlimited public and private pages for different audiences, with the API to build pages for key clients. DurianStatus has one account per owner, no single sign-on, and a private page is one password for everyone who gets it.
What $29 a month turns into
Hund's starting price is $29 a month, which is $348 over twelve months and $696 over two years. That is for one page and 20 components. A second page is another $29 a month, and the pricing tiers show 20-component packs at $29, $25 and $20 as usage grows. The add-ons stack on top: $70 a page for privacy controls makes a private page $99 a month, and single sign-on is $100 a month on the account.
None of that is unusual for hosted status pages, and Hund says plainly that its pricing is usage-based. It does mean the number to compare is the total over the life of the product, not the first month. A page that earns its keep during two outages a year is expensive to rent, and the trial lasts 30 days, so the bill starts quickly.
What DurianStatus gives you for the price
Each project gets a public page with your name, description, website link and brand color, and a banner that says whether everything is operational or what is affected. Components carry their own status, which you set by hand or let a check set. You open an incident with an impact level, post updates as it moves from investigating to resolved, and schedule maintenance with a start and an end. While a window is running, the checks on the affected components pause, so planned work does not count as downtime.
Checks are HTTP requests to a public URL every 5 minutes from one region. After 3 failures in a row a second region tries the site, and only if it is down there too does an incident open by itself. Every status page spells out this rule under how uptime is measured. For cron jobs and backups there are heartbeat checks: your job pings a secret URL, and a missed ping alerts you. Visitors subscribe with their email, confirm it, and hear about each incident with a one-click unsubscribe. You can remove subscribers and export the list as CSV.
Alerts also go to Slack and Discord, and a signed webhook posts each incident, maintenance or component change to your own URL. You can save incident messages as templates, and a write API lets you open and resolve incidents from your own scripts. The Pro plan adds a custom domain, removes the DurianStatus branding and lets you protect a page with a password.
Solo, Pro and the break-even point
Solo is $39 once: one status page, 5 monitors and a subscriber cap of 500. Pro is $79 once: unlimited pages, 25 monitors, a subscriber cap of 2,000, a custom domain, no DurianStatus branding and password-protected pages. Next to Hund at $29 a month, Solo is paid back in under six weeks and Pro in under three months, and the F*ckSubscription bundle grants the Pro plan.
The comparison is not like for like. Hund's 20 components per page is more than the 5 monitors on Solo, although a component you set by hand does not need a monitor. If you want a private page, the Hund price is $99 a month against the one-time $79 for Pro, but a Hund private page can be shared with many audiences in ways ours cannot. Count what you will really use before you decide.
FAQ
How much does Hund cost?
Hund's pricing page says it starts at $29 a month for one status page with 20 components, after a 30-day free trial. Embeddable pages cost $5 a page, privacy controls $70 a page and single sign-on $100 a month. No yearly price is shown. We read the page on 2026-10-23.
Is DurianStatus really a one-time payment?
Yes. Solo is $39 once and Pro is $79 once, and the F*ckSubscription bundle at $49 grants the Pro plan. There is no monthly fee for the app. You still pay your own domain registrar if you use a custom domain.
Can I move my Hund page to DurianStatus?
There is no import from Hund. You create the components yourself and add the checks. Subscribers do not move over: DurianStatus gives you a ready-to-send message and link, and they sign up again on the new page. It never emails them for you.
Does DurianStatus check my site as often as Hund?
No. Checks run every 5 minutes from one region, and a second region confirms before an automatic incident. Hund sells 30-second components and checks from several regions, so pick Hund if you need that speed.
Does DurianStatus send text messages to subscribers?
No. Subscribers get email, and you can post to Slack and Discord or call a signed webhook. If your customers expect text messages or Microsoft Teams notices, stay with Hund.
Pay once. Keep it.
DurianStatus is $39 one time. The bundle is $49 one time and includes DurianStatus and our other live apps, with future updates.
Questions? Write to martin@fcksubscription.com. A human (the founder) answers.
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