Status page · updated October 13, 2026
A Status.io alternative you pay for once
Status.io is built for companies that treat their status page as part of an incident process. Its pricing page lists three plans: Basic at $79 a month, Standard at $149 and Plus at $349. There is no cheaper tier underneath, so a solo founder or a small team that only needs a page saying what is up and what is down starts at $79 every month.
DurianStatus does the plain version of that job and charges once: $39 for Solo or $79 for Pro. This page puts Status.io's published numbers next to ours, shows the arithmetic over one, two and three years, and lists what Status.io does that we do not. If your customers need text messages, or your team needs single sign-on, stay where you are.
DurianStatus is a good fit if
- You pay Status.io for Basic and mostly use the page, incidents, planned maintenance and email updates
- Your subscriber list is under the 500 cap and you have one or a few products to show on the page
- A check every 5 minutes, with an incident that opens after 3 failures in a row, is enough monitoring for you
- You would rather make a single payment than carry $948 a year for a page that sits quiet most weeks
Stay on Status.io if
- Your customers expect text messages during an outage, or you broadcast to Microsoft Teams or IRC
- You need several people signed in to the dashboard, SAML single sign-on, an audit trail or purchase-order billing
- You rely on custom CSS, JavaScript or HTML on the page, or you pull metrics from New Relic or Pingdom into charts
What Status.io costs
Prices from Status.io's public pricing page, in USD, checked on October 13, 2026. Taxes excluded. Vendors change prices; follow the source links to see today's.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Basicsource, 2026-10-13 | $79/mo | $75.05/mo |
| Standardsource, 2026-10-13 | $149/mo | $141.55/mo |
| Plussource, 2026-10-13 | $349/mo | $331.55/mo |
| DurianStatus | $39 once, or in the $49 bundle | |
The math over 1, 3 and 5 years
Basic is Status.io's cheapest plan and it matches DurianStatus Solo on the subscriber cap (500). The monthly price is used for the main comparison; the 5% annual discount is shown in the plan table and lowers Basic to about $75 a month.
1 year
$901
Status.io Basic
$39
DurianStatus
3 years
$2,703
Status.io Basic
$39
DurianStatus
5 years
$4,505
Status.io Basic
$39
DurianStatus
Status.io Basic at $75.05/month (yearly billing, their cheapest rate), 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 | Status.io |
|---|---|---|
| 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, on every plan, with 90-day status charts |
| 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 management on every 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, planned maintenance with automatic reminders, on every plan |
| 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, a cap of 500 on Basic, 2,000 on Standard and 5,000 on Plus; subscribers can pick components |
| 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 as its own checks; the pricing page describes status automation that links outside monitoring tools to toggle the status |
| Slack and Discord alerts: paste an incoming-webhook URL and incidents, maintenance and component changes are posted there (up to 5 destinations per status page) | Included | Slack, Microsoft Teams and IRC broadcasts from Standard; Discord not listed |
| Webhooks: a JSON POST to your URL for each incident, maintenance or component change, signed with HMAC-SHA256 (X-DurianStatus-Signature), retried after 1 min, 5 min, 30 min and 2 h, then marked as failing | Included | Webhook notifications on every plan; signing is not listed on the pricing page |
| Pro: hide "Powered by DurianStatus" on the public page and in incident emails (confirmation emails keep a short attribution line) | Included | White-label branding from Standard |
| 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 | Plus only, behind single sign-on or an IP address list; no password option listed |
Where Status.io is better
More ways to reach subscribers
Status.io lists email and webhook on Basic, plus Twitter/X, an RSS feed and component subscriptions. Standard adds SMS through Twilio or Vonage, an iCalendar feed and chat broadcasts to IRC, Microsoft Teams and Slack. DurianStatus has no text messages and no IRC or Microsoft Teams broadcasts, but every public status page has RSS and Atom feeds and an iCal feed of its incidents and maintenance windows. An email subscriber can follow only some components, and every email has a link to change that choice.
Teams and enterprise controls
Every Status.io plan includes team members: 5 on Basic, 20 on Standard, 50 on Plus. Plus adds SAML single sign-on, an audit trail and subscriber compliance tools. DurianStatus is one account per owner, with no roles and no sign-in through an identity provider.
Charts from your existing monitoring
The pricing page promises charts powered by data sources such as New Relic and Pingdom, 5 metrics on Basic, and a status page that shows the health of outside services you depend on. DurianStatus draws its bars from its own HTTP checks, can add a chart of each component's average response time over 7, 30 or 90 days, and shows only the components you create.
Deep page customization
Standard adds custom CSS and a custom email sending domain, and Plus adds custom HTML, JavaScript and web headers. DurianStatus lets you set a name, brand color and website, and on Pro a custom domain, but it will not take your own code.
What $79 a month turns into
Status.io Basic costs $948 over twelve months, $1,896 over two years and $2,844 over three. Paying yearly takes 5% off, which brings it to about $900 a year. The next plan, Standard, is $149 a month or $1,788 a year, and it is the first one that lists SMS, Slack and white-label branding.
A status page earns its keep on the days something breaks, and for most small products that is a few days a year. Renting one at this price means paying for the other 360 days as well. The number worth comparing is the total over the life of the product.
What DurianStatus gives you for the price
Every 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, set by hand or by a check. You open an incident with an impact level, post updates from investigating to resolved, and schedule maintenance with a start and an end. During a window the checks on the affected components pause, so planned work does not raise an alert or 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 an incident opens only if it is down there too. Each status page explains this rule under 'How uptime is measured'. Cron jobs and backups can use heartbeat checks, and on https checks the certificate is read, so you get an email 14, 7 and 1 days before it expires.
Visitors subscribe with their email, confirm it, and receive each incident update with a one-click unsubscribe. You can post the same updates to Slack, Discord or a signed webhook. You see the subscriber list, remove people and export it as CSV. A monthly uptime report is for you alone and is never sent to subscribers.
Solo, Pro and the break-even point
Solo is $39 once: one status page, 5 checks and a subscriber cap of 500. Pro is $79 once: unlimited pages, 25 checks, a subscriber cap of 2,000, a custom domain, no DurianStatus branding and password-protected pages. Pro costs the same as the first month of Status.io Basic, and Solo is paid back before the first month is over.
Against Standard at $149 a month, Pro is paid back in under a day of the first month. The bundle also includes Pro, along with the other apps, for $49 once. That matters if you were going to buy a form or booking tool anyway.
Moving from Status.io
DurianStatus can read a public Atlassian Statuspage address and build a draft page from it. It cannot do that for Status.io, so you create your components by hand, add the checks you want and publish when the page looks right. For a page with a handful of components this takes a few minutes.
Subscribers stay behind. DurianStatus never imports or emails anyone's address; it gives you a short message and a link to send to your old list, and people subscribe again themselves. You end up with a list of people who still want the updates.
FAQ
Does Status.io have a free plan?
Its pricing page lists only Basic, Standard and Plus, starting at $79 a month. No free plan appears there.
Can DurianStatus send text messages like Status.io?
No. Subscribers get email, and you can post to Slack, Discord or a signed webhook. If your customers expect an SMS during an outage, Status.io Standard or higher is the right tool.
Which DurianStatus plan matches Status.io Basic?
Solo matches the subscriber cap of 500, with 1 status page and 5 checks. Pro raises that to a cap of 2,000 and 25 checks, and adds a custom domain and password-protected pages.
Do I keep my Status.io subscribers if I move?
No. No address is imported. You send them a short message with a link and they subscribe again, so the list holds only people who still want it.
Does DurianStatus work with my existing monitoring tool?
Not as a data source. It runs its own HTTP checks every 5 minutes, and its REST API reads your pages, incidents and monitors; with a write key it can also open, update and resolve incidents, set a component's status and schedule, move or cancel a maintenance window. If you need New Relic or Pingdom data on the page, stay with Status.io.
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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