The 5 Best Free Status Pages for SaaS in 2026
I built Stillup — an uptime monitoring and status page tool for indie devs and SaaS founders. Which means I spent a lot of time studying exactly what every competitor gives you for free, where they cut corners, and which limits you'll hit first.
Here's the honest picture.
A few things most comparison articles get wrong
Before the list: three things that have changed recently and most articles haven't caught up on.
Freshping shut down March 6, 2026. If you see it recommended somewhere, that article is out of date.
BetterStack's free check interval is 3 minutes, not 30 seconds. The 30-second interval is a paid feature. I've seen this misreported consistently across comparison posts.
UptimeRobot banned commercial use on the free plan in December 2024. If you're running a SaaS on their free tier, you've been in violation of their Terms of Service for months. Account suspension is the stated consequence.
What actually matters when choosing a free status page
I care about six things for a SaaS product:
- Check interval — how fast does it detect an outage?
- Public status page — is it actually designed to be shared with users, or is it a monitoring dashboard?
- Incident updates — can you post a manual "we're investigating" message?
- Subscriber notifications — can users opt in to get emailed when something breaks?
- Slack / Discord — does alerting work where your team actually works, or is it email-only?
- Commercial use — is the free plan actually legal to use for a SaaS?
With those in mind, here's where each tool lands.
1. Stillup — Best overall
Full disclosure: I built this one.
The problem I kept running into was that every other tool treated monitoring and the status page as separate products — often in separate pricing tiers. Stillup wires them together: when a monitor fires, the status page updates automatically. No manual update required during an incident.
Free plan: 3 monitors, 1-minute check interval, public status page, Slack alerts, commercial use allowed.
The monitor count is the obvious constraint. But for a single SaaS product — main URL, API, one critical endpoint — it covers the core. And 1-minute checks means you catch outages 5× faster than the 5-minute tools.
Best for: Indie devs and SaaS founders who want monitoring and a customer-facing status page working together without two subscriptions.
2. Instatus — Best status page design
The strongest free status page design on this list. Clean, mobile-responsive, looks production-grade without any customization work. Also has the second-fastest free check interval: 2 minutes.
Free plan: 15 monitors, 2-minute checks, 1 public status page, 200 email subscribers, 5 team members.
The gap: email-only alerts on free. If your team lives in Slack, you'll notice. Custom domain also requires a paid plan.
Best for: Founders who prioritize the design of the status page their users actually see, and are fine with email notifications.
3. UptimeRobot — Best monitor count (with caveats)
Fifty monitors free is genuinely generous. For personal projects, homelabs, or open-source tools, UptimeRobot is still the obvious choice on raw monitor count.
For SaaS: the December 2024 Terms of Service update makes the free plan non-commercial. Commercial projects require a paid plan. The 5-minute check interval also creates a worst-case 299-second detection gap — nearly 5 minutes of users hitting errors before an alert fires.
Free plan: 50 monitors, 5-minute checks, 1 basic status page, email only, commercial use banned.
Best for: Personal and open-source projects only. I wrote a longer breakdown of the UptimeRobot free plan limits if you want the full picture.
4. BetterStack — Best to grow into
The free tier is limited (10 monitors, 3-minute checks), but the paid product is the most polished on this list. On-call scheduling, log management, and incident post-mortem tooling are best-in-class. Slack is included on free.
Free plan: 10 monitors, 3-minute checks, 1 status page, Slack + email alerts, 3 GB log storage (3-day retention).
If you know you'll outgrow a free tier within 6 months, starting with BetterStack means you never have to migrate.
Best for: Teams planning to scale quickly who want to start with a tool they'll stay on.
5. Pulsetic — Best for multiple products
Three status pages on a free plan is genuinely unique — no other tool here matches it. If you're running two or three small products and need separate public pages for each, Pulsetic is the only free option that covers it.
Free plan: 10 monitors, 5-minute checks, 3 status pages, no Slack, no incident updates, no custom domain.
The limitation worth knowing: the free status pages don't support manual incident update posts. You can show green/red status but you can't post "we're investigating" messages until you pay. During an active outage that's a real gap.
Best for: Founders managing multiple products who need separate status pages for each and don't need incident communication features yet.
The comparison at a glance
| Tool | Monitors | Interval | Status Pages | Slack | Incident Updates | Commercial | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Stillup | 3 | 1 min | 1 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Instatus | 15 | 2 min | 1 | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | UptimeRobot | 50 | 5 min | 1 | ❌ | Limited | ❌ | | BetterStack | 10 | 3 min | 1 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Pulsetic | 10 | 5 min | 3 | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
The one thing I'd avoid
Any setup where your monitoring and your status page are disconnected. An alert firing in your inbox while your status page still says "Operational" is worse than having no status page at all — it tells your users that nobody's watching.
The tools that connect these automatically on free: Stillup. The tools where you'll need to manually update the status page when an incident fires: everyone else.
Full breakdown with pricing details at stillup.org/blog/best-free-status-page-for-saas