Status page · updated October 11, 2026
An Atlassian Statuspage alternative with no monthly bill
Statuspage is the default for a reason. It is built by Atlassian, it has a free plan, and it connects to Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS and webhooks, a list that most of the alternatives do not match. For plenty of teams, the free plan is all they will ever need, and if that is you, close this tab.
This page is for the small team that outgrew the free plan and is now looking at $29 a month for Hobby, mostly to get more subscribers and fewer limits on one public page. DurianStatus does a much smaller job: a public status page, incidents, maintenance, an HTTP uptime check and email updates to subscribers. It costs $39 once, or $79 once for unlimited pages. Below are Statuspage's own numbers, the arithmetic, and a frank list of what you give up.
DurianStatus is a good fit if
- You run one product or a few, and a plain public page with incidents, maintenance and email subscribers is all your customers use
- You are paying for Statuspage Hobby mainly for the higher subscriber cap, not for SMS or Microsoft Teams
- An HTTP check every 5 minutes that opens an incident by itself after 3 failures is enough monitoring for you
- You would rather pay one time than carry a monthly charge for a page that sits quiet most weeks
Stay on Atlassian Statuspage if
- You need SMS for your subscribers, or updates posted into Microsoft Teams or PagerDuty
- Different customer groups must each see their own version of the page
- You want an API to script incidents, several teammates logging in, or checks from several regions
- Statuspage's free plan already covers you: with a subscriber cap of 100, 25 components and nothing to upgrade, there is nothing to save
What Atlassian Statuspage costs
Prices from Atlassian Statuspage's public pricing page, in USD, checked on October 10, 2026. Taxes excluded. Vendors change prices; follow the source links to see today's.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
| Freesource, 2026-10-10 | $0/mo | n/a |
| Hobbysource, 2026-10-10 | $29/mo | n/a |
| Startupsource, 2026-10-10 | $99/mo | n/a |
| Businesssource, 2026-10-10 | $399/mo | n/a |
| DurianStatus | $39 once, or in the $29 bundle | |
The math over 1, 3 and 5 years
Hobby is the cheapest paid Statuspage plan, and it is the step up from the free plan's subscriber cap of 100. DurianStatus Solo caps subscribers at 500 on one page, so the subscriber count is the fair thing to compare. Statuspage lists monthly prices only; yearly card billing goes through a signed order form, so no yearly rate is shown.
1 year
$348
Atlassian Statuspage Hobby
$39
DurianStatus
3 years
$1,044
Atlassian Statuspage Hobby
$39
DurianStatus
5 years
$1,740
Atlassian Statuspage Hobby
$39
DurianStatus
Atlassian Statuspage Hobby at $29/month, assuming today's price never goes up. DurianStatus is a single $39 payment.
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Switching from Atlassian Statuspage? What comes over, step by step
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 | Atlassian Statuspage |
|---|---|---|
| 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 basic customization; a custom domain from Hobby |
| Components with their own status (operational, degraded, partial outage, major outage, maintenance), set by hand or by an uptime check | Included | Yes, 25 components on the free plan; component groups in the core set |
| Open an incident with impact level and affected components, post updates (investigating, identified, monitoring, resolved) and resolve it, shown as a timeline | Included | Yes, with incident templates in the core feature set |
| 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 maintenance 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 | Email on every plan; subscriber cap of 100 free, 250 on Hobby, 1,000 on Startup |
| SVG status badge, an embeddable status widget (script tag or iframe, light or dark) and a public JSON endpoint per page | Included | Status embed in the core feature set |
| 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 Statuspage's pricing page |
| An incident opens automatically after 3 failed checks in a row and resolves when the check recovers | Included | Not listed on Statuspage's pricing page |
Where Atlassian Statuspage is better
SMS and Microsoft Teams
Statuspage sends Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications on every plan, including the free one, and adds SMS and webhook notifications from Startup. DurianStatus posts incidents, maintenance and component changes to Slack, Discord or a signed webhook that you set up, but it has no Microsoft Teams and no SMS, and subscribers hear from it by email only. If your customers want a text message when something breaks, that is a real reason to pay for Statuspage.
Your own domain
A custom domain comes with Hobby and above, so your page can live at status.yourcompany.com from the first paid plan. DurianStatus has one too, but only on Pro ($79 once); on Solo your page stays at its DurianStatus address.
A REST API and a larger team
Every Statuspage plan, free included, has REST API access, so you can open incidents from your own scripts. You also get 2 team members for free, 5 on Hobby and 10 on Startup, with SSO through Atlassian Guard from Startup. Everything you do in your own dashboard stays a single-owner job.
Private and audience-specific pages
Statuspage sells pages for employees and for separate customer groups, each with its own pricing, and it supports component subscriptions on its Business plan. If different customers should see different statuses, or employees should sign in with their own accounts, you need a tool built for that. DurianStatus Pro can only put a whole page behind one password.
Scale and vendor weight
Subscriber caps go from 100 up to 25,000, with invoicing and purchase orders at the top. A procurement team can approve an Atlassian invoice without a conversation. A one-person company selling a one-time license is a harder sell in that room.
Why people start looking past Statuspage
The free plan is generous, and that is where the pressure begins. The cap of 100 arrives sooner than you think once a customer list starts signing up for updates. The next step is Hobby at $29 a month, which is $348 over a year, and the one after is Startup at $99 a month.
For a status page, that is a recurring charge for something that mostly sits there and does nothing until the day your service is down. It is also a price that does not stop. That is the gap this page is about: not a better Statuspage, a cheaper way to keep one small page running.
What DurianStatus does today
You get a public page per project, with your name, description, website link and brand color, and an overall banner that says whether everything is operational or what is affected. Components have their own status, which you set by hand or let an uptime check set. You can open an incident with an impact level and affected components, post updates as it moves from investigating to resolved, and schedule maintenance windows. During a window, the uptime checks on the affected components pause, so planned work raises no false alert and does not count as downtime; the window opens and closes by itself, subscribers can get an email when it starts and ends, and visitors see upcoming maintenance in their own time zone.
Each component can have an HTTP GET or HEAD check against a public URL. It runs every 5 minutes from one region, times out after 10 seconds, and counts a response from 200 to 399 as up. After 3 failures in a row a second region checks the site; if it is down there too, an incident opens by itself, and it resolves when the check recovers. The page shows one bar per day and an uptime percentage over 90 days. For cron jobs and backups there are heartbeat checks: your job pings a secret URL, and if no ping arrives in time you get an email, Slack, Discord or webhook alert. Attach a heartbeat to a component and the page opens an incident; leave it unattached and it never shows publicly. Heartbeats count toward the plan's checks, 5 on Solo and 25 on Pro. The same https check also reads the site's SSL certificate, and you get an email 14, 7 and 1 days before it expires; that warning is for you only, never on the public page. Domain-name expiry is not monitored. Each month you can pull an uptime report per component: the uptime percentage (counted like the public bars, maintenance left out), the time spent in major or critical incidents, the incidents and the longest one, as a CSV or a print/PDF view, or by email on the 1st if you turn it on. It is for you only, never sent to subscribers, and covers up to 12 months.
Visitors subscribe with their email address, confirm it, and receive messages when an incident is opened, updated or resolved, each with a one-click unsubscribe link. There is a cap of 12 notification emails per page per day. You also get an SVG status badge, an embeddable widget and a public JSON endpoint, and you can see and remove subscribers from your dashboard.
Solo or Pro, and the math
Solo is $39 once: one status page, 5 monitors and a subscriber cap of 500. Pro is $79 once: unlimited pages, 25 monitors and a subscriber cap of 2,000. Against Statuspage Hobby at $29 a month, Solo costs about one month and a third, and Pro costs under three months. Against Startup at $99, Pro is paid back in the first month.
Fairness check: those comparisons only hold if you would otherwise pay for Hobby. If you can stay under the free plan's cap of 100, you pay Statuspage nothing, and nothing beats nothing. Also note that Hobby brings an API, which Solo and Pro do not (a custom domain is in DurianStatus Pro). The FckSubscription bundle, $49 for every app, includes DurianStatus Pro.
What you give up by leaving
Make a list of what your team uses in Statuspage before you decide. Text messages, the API, a second teammate with a login: if any of these is on your list, stay where you are. DurianStatus has none of them; on Pro it can only put a whole page behind one password. Checks run from one region; a second region only confirms an outage.
If your list reads more like "a page customers can open, incidents with updates, maintenance, and an email when something changes", then one payment is a reasonable trade. You can also try it alongside: leave your Statuspage subscribers where they are and point new ones at the other page for a while, then compare.
Refunds and what lifetime means
Every purchase has a 14-day full refund, and a refund of DurianStatus removes the plan it granted and takes the page out of the public views. Your data stays until you delete it. Lifetime means for as long as we run the app. If we ever 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 Atlassian Statuspage have a free plan?
Yes. The free plan has a subscriber cap of 100 and includes 25 components, 2 team members, 2 metrics, email, Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications, and REST API access. Paid plans start with Hobby at $29 a month.
Can DurianStatus send SMS or post to Slack like Statuspage?
Partly. DurianStatus can post incidents, maintenance and component changes to Slack, Discord or a signed webhook you set up, up to 5 destinations per status page. Subscribers are notified by email only, with double opt-in and a one-click unsubscribe: there is no SMS and no Microsoft Teams. If you need those, stay with Statuspage.
Can I use my own domain for the status page?
Yes, on DurianStatus Pro (included in the bundle): add your domain in the page settings, set the TXT and CNAME records shown, and the page is served there once verified. On Solo, your page lives at its DurianStatus address.
How does the uptime monitoring compare?
DurianStatus checks a public URL over HTTP every 5 minutes from one region, and opens an incident after 3 failures in a row once a second region confirms the site is down. Statuspage's pricing page does not list uptime checks, so it is usually fed by the monitoring tool you already use.
What is the difference between Solo and Pro?
Solo is $39 once and includes one status page, 5 monitors and a subscriber cap of 500. Pro is $79 once with unlimited pages, 25 monitors and a subscriber cap of 2,000. The FckSubscription bundle includes DurianStatus Pro.
Can I move my subscribers from Statuspage?
Not automatically: DurianStatus never imports or emails their addresses. It gives you a ready-to-send message and a link for your old subscribers, so you announce the new page on Statuspage and they sign up again with a double opt-in confirmation. Your DurianStatus subscribers can be exported as CSV at any time.
Pay once. Keep it.
DurianStatus is $39 one time. The bundle is $29 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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