Priced per page, not per subscriber.
Statuspage meters largely on how many people subscribe to your page. Its published ladder reaches roughly $399/mo around 5,000 subscribers. StatusOwl charges for status pages, and the number of people reading them never changes the bill. That is the whole wedge — and below it is everything Statuspage does better.
Pick the one that matches your incident process.
Both products publish a status page. They disagree about what happens next: Statuspage pushes the update out to an audience, StatusOwl gets the update onto the page without anyone touching it.
- You want the page and the checks to be one product, so the incident opens without anyone logging in.
- Your quote goes up because your audience went up, and you would rather pay for pages.
- You want status.yourcompany.com with a certificate that renews itself — on a free plan.
- You run several pages: one per product, per region, or per customer.
- You would rather have a small surface that is honest about its edges than a large one you use a fifth of.
- You need to email, text or webhook thousands of subscribers the moment you publish.
- Your incident process runs on templates and grouped components.
- You show different components to different audiences from the same incident.
- You are an Atlassian shop and want Jira wired straight into the page.
- Procurement needs SAML SSO and a decade of enterprise references.
If more than one line in the right-hand column describes you, the rest of this page will not change your mind, and you should stay on Statuspage. We would rather say that here than in a support thread in week three.
The whole table, including the rows we lose.
Nothing in the StatusOwl column is aspirational. If it is not shipped, it says so.
| Feature | StatusOwl | Statuspage |
|---|---|---|
| The page | ||
| Custom domain with automatic SSLstatus.yourcompany.com, certificate issued and renewed for you. | Every plan, including Free | Paid tiers |
| Pages per account | Free 1 → Scale unlimited | One page, with more on higher tiers |
| Component groupsNesting services under a collapsible heading on the public page. | No — the page renders a flat list | Yes |
| Audience-specific pagesShowing different components to different viewers from one incident. | No | Yes |
| Private pages | Unlisted only — returns 404 without the link. No password, no SSO gate. | Authenticated private and audience pages |
| Visitor light / dark / auto toggleThe visitor's choice is remembered, with no white flash on load. | Yes, on every plan | No |
| Logo and branding | Logo upload on every plan | Yes |
| Custom CSS and HTML | No editor yet | Yes |
| Uptime history on the page | 90 daily bars per service, with per-day uptime, average response time and check count on hover | Uptime showcase built from component history |
| Live updates without a refresh | Polls every 30 seconds, pauses on a hidden tab, keeps the last known state if a poll fails | Yes |
| Monitoring | ||
| Uptime checks included | HTTP/HTTPS, ping and TCP port | Not included — connect an external monitor |
| Incidents opened by the checks themselvesThree consecutive failures opens an incident at the page's default impact; the first successful check posts a recovery update and resolves it. | Yes, built in | Through a third-party monitoring integration |
| SSL certificate and domain expiry | Both, on every plan | Not included |
| Server metrics agentWatch Owl reports CPU, memory, disk, network and patch state from your own hosts. | Linux, Windows and macOS | Not included |
| Check frequency | 3 min on Free, down to 30 sec | Not applicable — no checks |
| Regions per monitorMulti-region checking is built, but capped at one region per monitor on every plan until there is node capacity to promise more. | One | Not applicable |
| Incidents and maintenance | ||
| Incident lifecycle and update timelineInvestigating → identified → monitoring → resolved, with an append-only timeline and a public permalink. | Yes | Yes |
| Editing an incident after it is created | No — post another update, or delete the whole incident | Yes |
| Incident templates | No | Yes |
| Scheduled maintenance windowsScheduled → in progress → completed, recording scheduled against actual times. | Yes, on every plan | Yes |
| Maintenance suppresses checks or alerts | No — only the per-monitor maintenance toggle stops checking | Not applicable |
| Audit log | Every mutation, on every plan including Free | Higher tiers |
| Telling people | ||
| Status page subscribersThis is the single biggest gap between the two products. | Not yet — publishing notifies nobody | Email, SMS, webhook and RSS |
| Alerts to your team when a check fails | Not yet | From whichever monitor you connect |
| Notification channelsAll six are in production with a live test-send. Today they fire on Watch Owl server-metric alert rules, not on failing uptime checks. | Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, ntfy, signed webhooks | Through Atlassian tools and integrations |
| Scheduled uptime reports by emailDaily, weekly or monthly: uptime, average and p95 latency, incident count and total checks. | Every plan | Not offered in this form |
| RSS / Atom feed | No | Yes |
| Platform | ||
| APIKeyed REST API on the edge with per-key rate limiting, scopes and a served OpenAPI document — but only two routes exist. | Read-only: list monitors, get monitor | REST API including writes |
| SAML / SSO | No | Enterprise tiers |
| Jira and Atlassian ecosystem | No | Native |
| Import from another provider | No — components are recreated by hand | Not applicable |
| Tenant isolationEnforced in application code: every query is scoped by organisation and every membership checked before a read or a write. | Organisation-scoped queries and role checks | Yes |
Reading the colours. Green marks a row where StatusOwl is ahead; amber marks a gap in StatusOwl. The Statuspage column is left uncoloured deliberately — this is our page, and grading their column would be marking our own homework. Statuspage details are summarised from Atlassian’s public documentation at the time of writing.
StatusOwl does not notify anyone when something breaks. A failing HTTP, ping or TCP check opens an incident on your status page and stops there — no subscriber email, no message to your team. The six notification channels are built and in production, but today only Watch Owl server-metric alert rules fire them. Both gaps are being worked on now and tracked on the roadmap. Until they ship, treat StatusOwl as a status page that keeps itself current, not as a pager.
Two different things being metered.
Statuspage prices the audience. StatusOwl prices the pages. Which is cheaper depends entirely on how many people watch you — which is why the gap widens exactly as your product succeeds.
- Free1 status page$0/mo
- Starter3 status pages$19/mo$15/mo yearly
- Growth10 status pages$49/mo$39/mo yearly
- ScaleUnlimited status pages$149/mo$119/mo yearly
Subscriber count does not appear anywhere on this ladder, because StatusOwl does not have subscribers.
- HobbyA small public page.~$29/mo
- StartupMore subscribers and more team members.~$99/mo
- BusinessAround five thousand subscribers.~$399/mo
- EnterpriseQuoted, with the enterprise feature set.~$1,499/mo
Published tiers at the time of writing, rounded. Atlassian changes these — check their pricing page for the current numbers.
| People subscribed | Statuspage tier | Statuspage / mo | StatusOwl / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Hobby | ~$29 | $19 |
| 1,000 | Startup | ~$99 | $19 |
| 5,000 | Business | ~$399 | $19 |
| 25,000 | Enterprise | ~$1,499 | $19 |
This is not like for like. At the bottom row Statuspage is emailing twenty-five thousand people for you and StatusOwl is emailing none of them, because we have not built subscribers. What the table shows is the shape of the two pricing models, not the shape of the two products: one bill grows with your audience, the other does not.
Illustrative only. The Statuspage column uses published tiers at the time of writing, rounded, and assumes the subscriber count is what decides the tier — team seats and other limits can push you up sooner. Check Atlassian’s current pricing and ours before you decide anything.
Where Statuspage is the better choice.
Six specific things, not hedged compliments. Statuspage has been doing this for over a decade and it shows in places that matter.
You need to notify subscribers
Statuspage has a mature subscriber system — visitors subscribe by email, SMS, webhook or RSS, and publishing an incident reaches them. StatusOwl has none of this. No subscribe form, no subscriber list, nothing sent. If your incident comms depend on reaching customers directly rather than on customers checking the page, Statuspage does a job StatusOwl cannot do at all.
Incident templates
Pre-written incident bodies per scenario, so the person opening an incident at 3am is filling in a form rather than composing prose under pressure. This is a genuinely good feature and StatusOwl does not have it — our automatic incidents seed one fixed first update and nothing more.
Component groups
Statuspage lets you nest components under collapsible groups, so a page with forty services still reads cleanly. A StatusOwl page renders a flat list of services. Above roughly a dozen entries, theirs is the better page.
Audience-specific pages
One incident, shown differently to different audiences — customers see one component set, internal teams another, with authentication in front. StatusOwl gives you separate pages instead, and private means unlisted rather than protected. For anyone with a real audience-segmentation requirement, that is not a substitute.
You live inside Atlassian
Jira, Confluence and Jira Service Management integrate with Statuspage natively, because it is the same company. If your incident record already lives in a Jira ticket, that link is worth real money and StatusOwl has no equivalent.
Enterprise procurement
SAML SSO, a long deployment track record, and an account team. StatusOwl has none of the three. If your security review has a questionnaire, Statuspage will pass it and we will not.
If you want the full unflattering list rather than the Statuspage-shaped slice of it, the roadmap states what is not built and what is being worked on, in the same plain language.
What you get for giving those up.
One product doing the checking and the publishing, so the page is already correct before anyone reaches for a laptop.
The incident opens itself
Three consecutive failed checks on an attached monitor opens an incident at your page's default impact, seeds an automatically-detected first update, and puts the banner up. Duplicates are suppressed. The first successful check posts a recovery update and resolves it.
Your own domain on the free plan
status.yourcompany.com with a certificate that issues and renews itself, on Free as well as every paid plan. Staged DNS instructions, checked live as you add each record, with the real errors surfaced rather than a generic failure.
Checks and page in one account
HTTP, ping, TCP, SSL expiry, domain expiry and server metrics from your own hosts — all feeding the same page. Nothing to reconcile between two vendors that disagree about whether you are up.
A price that ignores your audience
$0 for one page, $149 per month for an unlimited number of them, and nothing in between that depends on how many people are watching.
Asked before switching.
Is StatusOwl a drop-in replacement for Statuspage?
Not today. The biggest difference is subscribers: Statuspage has a mature subscriber system and StatusOwl has none, so publishing an incident here updates the page and emails nobody. If your incident process depends on notifying customers directly, stay where you are for now.
Does StatusOwl charge by the number of subscribers?
No. StatusOwl is priced by how many status pages you run: $0 for one page, up to $149 per month for an unlimited number. Audience size never changes the price. It is also worth saying plainly that StatusOwl does not currently send anything to an audience — subscriber notifications are being built.
Can I import my components and incident history from Statuspage?
No. There is no importer. Moving means recreating your components as monitors by hand, and past incident history does not come across. An importer is on the roadmap under exploring, which means not started.
Will StatusOwl alert my team when a check fails?
Not today. A failing HTTP, ping or TCP check opens an incident on your status page and notifies nobody. The six notification channels — email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, ntfy and signed webhooks — are built and in production, but the only thing that fires them right now is a Watch Owl server-metric alert rule. Wiring failing checks into them is the work in progress.
Is a custom domain included on the StatusOwl free plan?
Yes. Every plan, including Free, supports status.yourcompany.com with a certificate that issues and renews automatically. You point a CNAME at status-pages.statusowl.app and the dashboard walks you through each DNS record, checking them live as you go.
How much does Atlassian Statuspage cost?
At the time of writing its public tiers start around $29 per month and rise through roughly $99 and $399 to an enterprise tier around $1,499, metered largely on how many subscribers your page has. Those figures change, so check Atlassian's own pricing page for current numbers before deciding.
What does StatusOwl do that Statuspage does not?
It runs the checks itself. Statuspage is a publishing tool — you connect an external monitor to it. StatusOwl's monitoring is the same system that drives the page, so three consecutive failed checks opens the incident, and the first successful check posts a recovery update and resolves it, with nobody logging in.
Something not covered? Ask us — or read every comparison.
Try it on one page before you move anything.
Free covers one status page on your own domain with SSL included, so you can point a real service at it and see how the automatic incidents behave before touching your Statuspage account.