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Openstatus pricing
Openstatus publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $30/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Openstatus plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Starter | $30/month | 4 | +$30/month, 4 more features |
| Pro | $100/month | 4 | +$70/month, 4 more features |
| Scale | $500/month | 4 | +$400/month, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 1 monitor with 10-minute intervals, 1 status page with 3 components, no credit card required.
Starter
$30/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- 20 monitors with 1-minute intervals
- 1 status page with 20 components
- 3-month data retention
- All alert types
Pro
$100/monthOver Starter, this tier adds:
- 50 monitors with 30-second intervals
- 5 status pages with 50 components each
- 12-month data retention
- Audit logs and private locations
Scale
$500/monthOver Pro, this tier adds:
- 10 status pages with 500 components each
- 24-month data retention
- White label and email authentication
Where Openstatus stops being free
Free, Free
- 1 monitor with 10-minute intervals
- 1 status page with 3 components
- No credit card required
Starter, $30/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 20 monitors with 1-minute intervals
- 1 status page with 20 components
- 3-month data retention
- All alert types
What the product covers
The full Openstatus feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Branded status pages
Monitoring
- Global monitoring
Alerts
- Incident notifications
Compliance
- Audit-ready trails
Developer
- API and CLI access
- Terraform provider
Other
- Self-hosting
People bring Openstatus in 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. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Openstatus are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Logging
Across the 4 logging tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $12.5/month. Openstatus starts at $30/month, which puts it above the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Openstatus (this page) | Free, then $30/month | - | - | |
| Cronitor | Free, then $2/monitor/month | Pay-per-monitor plus user seats | - | vs Openstatus |
| Uptime.com | On request | subscription | - | vs Openstatus |
| Traceloop | Free | Freemium with pay-as-you-go enterprise option | - | vs Openstatus |
| Healthchecks | Free, then $5/month | Per-job monitoring with fixed tiers | - | vs Openstatus |
| incident.io | Free | subscription | - | vs Openstatus |
| Rootly | $20/user-month | subscription | - | vs Openstatus |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Openstatus badges page.
Before you pay for Openstatus
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and $500/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Openstatus runs on web, api, and is published by OpenStatus. The full record is on the Openstatus review, and the rest of the category is under best logging tools.
Openstatus pricing questions
- How much does Openstatus cost?
- Openstatus publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to $500/month for Scale. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Openstatus have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 1 monitor with 10-minute intervals, 1 status page with 3 components, no credit card required. Paying starts at $30/month for Starter.
- What is the difference between Free and Starter on Openstatus?
- Starter costs $30/month against Free, and adds 20 monitors with 1-minute intervals, 1 status page with 20 components, 3-month data retention, all alert types.
- Is the Scale plan on Openstatus worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 10 status pages with 500 components each, 24-month data retention, white label and email authentication. It costs $500/month against $30/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Openstatus expensive for a logging tool?
- It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 4 logging tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $12.5/month; Openstatus starts at $30/month.
- Which logging tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 logging tools listed alongside Openstatus have a free tier: Cronitor, Traceloop, Healthchecks, incident.io, FireHydrant.
- What am I actually paying for with Openstatus?
- The record lists 7 features across 6 areas: core, monitoring, alerts, compliance, developer, other. In practice it is brought in for publishing incident status pages to customers, demonstrating compliance readiness to auditors, alerting internal teams when services are down.
- Does Openstatus charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Openstatus prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Openstatus against before paying?
- The closest logging tools in this directory are Cronitor, Uptime.com, Traceloop, Healthchecks. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Openstatus covering price, platforms and features.