Status page · updated October 19, 2026
A Sorry status page alternative you pay for once
Sorry, the hosted status page at sorryapp.com, has one paid plan and no free one. Its pricing page says 'From $99/month', billed monthly, with a 7-day trial that needs no card. For a solo founder or a small product with a handful of customers, $99 every month is a steep price for a page that sits quiet most weeks.
DurianStatus does the plain version of the job: a public status page, incidents, scheduled maintenance, uptime checks every 5 minutes and email updates to subscribers. It costs $39 once, or $79 once for more pages and checks. This page puts Sorry's published numbers next to ours, shows the arithmetic and lists what Sorry does that we do not. If those things matter to you, stay with Sorry.
DurianStatus is a good fit if
- You run one product or a few, and customers mostly need to see current status, past incidents and an email when something changes
- You work alone or with one other person, so five logins and single sign-on are features you would not use
- You have well under 2,000 email subscribers and a check every 5 minutes is enough monitoring for you
- You would rather make one payment than add $1,188 a year to your costs for a page that is rarely opened
Stay on Sorry if
- You need several people logging into the dashboard with their own accounts, role-based access, or single sign-on through SAML
- Your subscribers expect Microsoft Teams or Google Chat notices, or a single profile that follows them across many status pages
- You run an internal, SSO-protected page for employees, or need an account manager and a custom license agreement
What Sorry costs
Prices from Sorry's public pricing page, in USD, checked on October 19, 2026. Taxes excluded. Vendors change prices; follow the source links to see today's.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Status Pagesource, 2026-10-19 | $99/mo | n/a |
| DurianStatus | $39 once, or in the $49 bundle | |
The math over 1, 3 and 5 years
Status Page is Sorry's only self-serve plan, so it is the only fair comparison. The pricing page lists a monthly price and shows no yearly rate, so no yearly figure is used. Enterprise is quote-only and left out.
1 year
$1,188
Sorry Status Page
$39
DurianStatus
3 years
$3,564
Sorry Status Page
$39
DurianStatus
5 years
$5,940
Sorry Status Page
$39
DurianStatus
Sorry Status Page at $99/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 | Sorry |
|---|---|---|
| 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, public status pages; extra pages and private pages are add-ons |
| Open an incident with impact level and affected components, post updates (investigating, identified, monitoring, resolved) and resolve it, shown as a timeline | Included | Yes, incident reports and incident metrics are listed on the plan |
| 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, maintenance windows are part of the status page |
| 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, email notifications with a subscriber cap of 1,000 |
| Component subscriptions: email subscribers can follow only some components; they are emailed about incidents on those components (and about incidents not tied to a component), every email has a link to change the choice, and existing subscribers keep the whole page | Included | Yes, listed on the plan |
| 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, included in the plan |
| 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 | Not listed on Sorry's pricing page |
| 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 | A REST API and a Status API are listed; the pricing page does not say what each one can change |
Where Sorry is better
Teams, roles and single sign-on
Sorry includes 5 team members in its plan, lets you add more from $5 a month each, and lists role-based access control and SAML single sign-on with any provider. DurianStatus is one account per owner. If several people will open incidents under their own login, or your company requires single sign-on, Sorry is the right tool.
More channels and a single subscriber profile
Sorry notifies subscribers by email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Chat, and its home page describes one profile per email address where a subscriber picks channels and components across every page you run. Our subscribers get email, and you can post to Slack, Discord or a signed webhook that you set up yourself. There is no Microsoft Teams or Google Chat support and no shared profile across pages.
Private pages, collections and multiple pages
Sorry sells private status pages for internal teams, with sign-in through identity providers such as Azure or Google Workspace, and collections that bring several products onto one page with one subscriber experience. A password-protected page on our Pro plan covers a simple private page, but it is a password, not an identity provider, and there are no collections.
A dedicated team and an enterprise path
Sorry says its team answers the same day and joins calls, and it offers account management, flexible billing and custom license agreements for larger customers. DurianStatus is built and supported by one person. Support is a quick email, not a contract with response times.
What $99 a month turns into
Sorry's plan costs $1,188 over twelve months and $2,376 over two years, before any add-on. Adding a sixth team member is $5 more each month, and a private page or a second status page is an add-on whose price is not on the pricing page. The pricing page shows a single monthly figure and no discount for paying yearly.
Hosted status pages aimed at companies with support staff are priced like this across the market. The useful comparison is the total over the life of your product rather than the first invoice, and a page that matters during two outages a year is costly to rent at this rate.
What DurianStatus gives you for the price
Every project gets a public page showing your name, a short description, a link to your site and your brand color, with a banner at the top that reads either all systems operational or which part is affected. Each component has its own state, set by hand or by a check. To report a problem you open an incident, choose its impact, and post updates from investigating through resolved; planned work goes in as maintenance with a start and an end, and the checks on those components pause meanwhile so nothing false is raised or counted against uptime.
The monitor is a plain HTTP request to a public URL, sent every 5 minutes from a single region. When 3 requests in a row fail, a second region tries; an incident opens by itself only if that region cannot reach the site either. The rule is printed on each status page under 'How uptime is measured'. Cron jobs and backups use heartbeats instead: your job calls a secret URL, and a missing call alerts you through email, Slack, Discord or a webhook. For https URLs the certificate is read too, with emails 14, 7 and 1 days ahead of expiry.
People subscribe with an email address, confirm it, and get each update with a one-click unsubscribe. They may follow just some components. As the owner you see the list, remove anyone, and download it as CSV at any time. Public pages also publish RSS and Atom feeds and an iCal feed covering incidents and maintenance.
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. Against Sorry's $99 a month, Solo is paid back in the first month, and Pro is paid back before the first month ends as well.
Two checks keep this fair. Sorry's subscriber cap is 1,000, so Solo's 500 is the smaller number and Pro's 2,000 is the larger one. And a custom domain is included in Sorry's plan but needs Pro here. If you want your own address on the page, Pro is the honest match. The $49 bundle includes DurianStatus Pro along with every other app.
Moving a page across
DurianStatus imports from Atlassian Statuspage but not from Sorry, so you rebuild the components yourself, a few minutes of work for a small page. Subscribers stay behind: you get a ready-made message and a link to send them, and each person signs up again. We never import or email their addresses.
The easiest route is overlap. Add the DurianStatus link to your footer, announce it once, and end the Sorry subscription after your list has moved over.
Refunds and what lifetime means
Every purchase has a 14-day full refund. Lifetime means for as long as we run the app; if we shut it down you get 30 days' notice and an export of your data. DurianStatus is built and supported by one person, Martin, at martin@fcksubscription.com.
FAQ
Does Sorry have a free plan?
Not on its pricing page. The page says 'From $99/month' and offers a 7-day trial with no credit card. After the trial you choose a monthly or yearly payment.
Can DurianStatus notify subscribers in Microsoft Teams?
No. Subscribers get email, and you can post to Slack, Discord or a signed webhook. If your customers live in Microsoft Teams or Google Chat, Sorry is the right tool.
Which DurianStatus plan matches Sorry's plan?
Pro is the closer match: it has a custom domain and a 2,000-subscriber cap against Sorry's 1,000. Solo is enough if you use one page, a few checks and no custom domain.
Do I keep my Sorry subscribers if I move?
No. No address is imported. You send a short message with a link and people subscribe again, so the list contains only people who still want updates.
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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