Is Openstatus or Uptime.com better?

Neither clearly leads. Openstatus starts at Free and Uptime.com at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Openstatus or Uptime.com?

Openstatus has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Openstatus and On request for Uptime.com.

Does Openstatus or Uptime.com run on more platforms?

Both run on Web, API, so platform support will not decide this one for you.

What is Openstatus best used for?

Openstatus is most often used for publishing incident status pages to customers, demonstrating compliance readiness to auditors, alerting internal teams when services are down, tracking uptime metrics across global regions. Of those, publishing incident status pages to customers and demonstrating compliance readiness to auditors are not what Uptime.com is typically brought in for.

What can Openstatus do that Uptime.com cannot?

Openstatus covers Branded status pages, Global monitoring, Incident notifications, Audit-ready trails. Uptime.com covers Website monitoring, API monitoring, Synthetic monitoring, Page speed testing.

Logging · head to head

Openstatus vs Uptime.com

Openstatus

Logging

Status pages with uptime monitoring and compliance-ready incident tracking

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Uptime.com

Logging

Website monitoring and uptime checker with 80+ global monitoring points

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Only Openstatus has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: Openstatus free tier severely limited to 1 monitor and 1 status page; Uptime.com pricing structure not fully detailed publicly
They diverge on capability: Openstatus covers Branded status pages, Uptime.com covers Website monitoring.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Openstatus and Uptime.com actually diverge.

Attributes where Openstatus and Uptime.com differ
Attribute	Openstatus	Uptime.com
Starting price	Free	On request
Pricing model	Unknown	subscription
Free tier	Yes	No
Founded	2023	Unknown

Identical on both: platforms (Web, API), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Logging).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Openstatus

Branded status pages
Global monitoring
Incident notifications
Audit-ready trails
API and CLI access
Terraform provider
Self-hosting

Only in Uptime.com

Website monitoring
API monitoring
Synthetic monitoring
Page speed testing
Real User Monitoring
Status pages
Private locations
Global network

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Openstatus

Publishing incident status pages to customersnot Uptime.com
Demonstrating compliance readiness to auditorsnot Uptime.com
Alerting internal teams when services are downnot Uptime.com
Tracking uptime metrics across global regionsnot Uptime.com

Uptime.com

Monitor website availability across multiple global locationsnot Openstatus
Test API endpoints and validate response timesnot Openstatus
Verify DNS resolution and certificate validitynot Openstatus
Track page load performance over timenot Openstatus
Send alerts to teams when issues occurnot Openstatus

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Openstatus

Free tier severely limited to 1 monitor and 1 status page
Per-status-page pricing adds cost for multi-product organizations
No built-in workflow orchestration or incident response automation
Limited historical analytics beyond incident documentation
No AI-powered incident diagnosis or root cause analysis

Uptime.com

Pricing structure not fully detailed publicly
Limited information on check frequency in basic plans
Real User Monitoring and status pages require add-ons
Lower-tier plans may have feature limitations

Pricing, plan by plan

Openstatus

Free

FreeFree
- 1 monitor with 10-minute intervals
- 1 status page with 3 components
- No credit card required
Starter$30/month
- 20 monitors with 1-minute intervals
- 1 status page with 20 components
- 3-month data retention
Pro$100/month
- 50 monitors with 30-second intervals
- 5 status pages with 50 components each
- 12-month data retention
Scale$500/month
- 50 monitors with 30-second intervals
- 10 status pages with 500 components each
- 24-month data retention

Uptime.com

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Uptime.com review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Openstatus if

You need branded status pages.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Web, API.
You also want global monitoring.

Openstatus review

Choose Uptime.com if

You need website monitoring.
You work on Web, API.
You also want api monitoring.

Uptime.com review

Questions people ask

Is Openstatus or Uptime.com better?: Neither clearly leads. Openstatus starts at Free and Uptime.com at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Openstatus or Uptime.com?: Openstatus has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Openstatus and On request for Uptime.com.
Does Openstatus or Uptime.com run on more platforms?: Both run on Web, API, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
Can I use Openstatus for free?: Yes. Openstatus has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Uptime.com starts at On request.
What is Openstatus best used for?: Openstatus is most often used for publishing incident status pages to customers, demonstrating compliance readiness to auditors, alerting internal teams when services are down, tracking uptime metrics across global regions. Of those, publishing incident status pages to customers and demonstrating compliance readiness to auditors are not what Uptime.com is typically brought in for.
What can Openstatus do that Uptime.com cannot?: Openstatus covers Branded status pages, Global monitoring, Incident notifications, Audit-ready trails. Uptime.com covers Website monitoring, API monitoring, Synthetic monitoring, Page speed testing.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Openstatus: Can I use OpenStatus for free?

Yes, the free tier includes 1 monitor with 10-minute check intervals and 1 status page with 3 components, no credit card required.

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Uptime.com: Does Uptime.com offer a money-back guarantee?

Yes, Uptime.com provides a 30-day money-back guarantee for new users, allowing risk-free trial of their service.

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Openstatus: What is included in annual billing for Starter plan?

Annual billing costs $300/year (vs $360/month), saving 2 months. Includes 20 monitors, 1-minute intervals, and all alert types.

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Uptime.com: What alerting methods does Uptime.com support?

All plans include email and SMS alerting with 20+ integrations available including Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and webhooks for custom integrations.

Source

Openstatus: Can I add extra status pages beyond my plan limit?

Yes, additional status pages cost $20/month and are billed separately on top of your plan.

Source

Uptime.com: How many monitoring locations does Uptime.com have?

Uptime.com operates 80+ monitoring locations worldwide, enabling checks from multiple geographic regions to detect regional connectivity issues.

Source

Openstatus vs Uptime.com

Openstatus

Uptime.com

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Openstatus

Only in Uptime.com

What people use each for

Openstatus

Uptime.com

Where each one falls short

Openstatus

Uptime.com

Pricing, plan by plan

Openstatus

Uptime.com

Which should you pick?

Choose Openstatus if

Choose Uptime.com if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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