Statuspage pricing: what subscriber counts cost you

If you searched "statuspage pricing", the answer is on Atlassian's pricing page. The number you actually pay depends on one input the page cannot know: how many people subscribe to your updates.

Statuspage's public-page plans are sold in tiers, and the tier boundary is a subscriber count. This post lays the tiers out, shows what each one costs per year, and points at the places where the bill jumps.

Everything about Statuspage below is from Atlassian's own pricing page and its public pages and private pages product pages, read October 4, 2026. Prices change, so check the source before you budget.

What are Statuspage's pricing tiers?

Atlassian lists five public-page plans, each with a subscriber ceiling:

The Free plan also lists 25 components and 2 metrics. Private pages (for authenticated audiences) and audience-specific pages are priced separately: private pages run from $79 to $1,499 a month, and audience-specific pages start at $300 a month. This post only covers public pages.

One detail is easy to miss. Atlassian's FAQ says every plan comes with unlimited notifications, and that the type of notification depends on the plan. Hobby includes email notifications, while Startup includes email, SMS and webhook. The meter is therefore not messages sent. It is how many subscribers you are allowed to hold.

How much does Statuspage cost per year?

A tier price is a monthly price, so the yearly cost is twelve times it. Atlassian's FAQ says yearly credit card billing exists but is set up manually through a signed order form. The pricing page does not publish a separate annual rate, so the figures below are simply 12 times the monthly price.

The cost per subscriber slope is worth seeing on its own. Dividing each tier's price by its ceiling gives:

• Hobby: $29 / 250 = $0.116 per subscriber per month.
• Startup: $99 / 1,000 = $0.099.
• Business: $399 / 5,000 = $0.080.
• Enterprise: $1,499 / 25,000 = $0.060.

Each figure assumes a full tier. Tiers get cheaper per head as they fill, but you rarely sit at a full tier.

Where does the Statuspage bill jump?

The bill jumps at the tier boundaries. A team with 1,000 subscribers on Startup pays $99 a month. If the 1,001st person subscribes, the tier that covers you is Business at $399, a difference of $399 - $99 = $300 a month, or $3,600 a year, for one more subscriber. That assumes the ceilings on the page are hard limits, which is how the page presents them. The pricing page does not say what happens at a limit (whether new sign-ups are refused, or you are moved up automatically), so ask Atlassian before relying on either behavior.

Two practical consequences:

• Subscriber growth is the thing to forecast, not incidents. A quiet quarter does not lower the bill, and a noisy one does not raise it. What raises it is people signing up, which a successful status page encourages.
• Cleaning the list can be a real cost lever. If you are at 1,150 subscribers and 200 of them are dead addresses or former customers, getting back under 1,000 is worth $300 a month. Our post on status page subscriber notifications covers what a healthy list looks like and why bounced addresses should be pruned anyway.

What a flat price looks like instead

RealUptime Status sells three rungs with a flat price each. The numbers below match what the product enforces:

Using the same scenarios:

• 180 subscribers fits Growth at $28.99 a month ($347.88 a year billed monthly, $289.90 billed annually).
• 600 subscribers also fits Growth.
• 1,200 subscribers needs Scale at $78.99 a month ($947.88 monthly, $789.90 annual).
• 8,000 subscribers still fits Scale.

All three plans include subscriber notifications by email, and the paid rungs carry unlimited status pages. Subscribers stop being accepted once you reach your plan's allowance. There is no per-subscriber overage line.

The comparison is not apples to apples in every row. The Free rung holds 100 subscribers, the same as Statuspage's free plan. Each Status plan also includes the uptime monitors that drive the page (10 on Free, 25 on Growth, 150 on Scale), where Statuspage runs no checks of its own.

Scale tops out at 10,000 subscribers, while Statuspage's Enterprise tier goes to 25,000. A very large audience is a reason to stay with Statuspage.

When is Statuspage the right choice?

Statuspage is a reasonable pick in several situations, and the pricing page itself shows why:

• You need more than 10,000 subscribers. Their top public tier is 25,000.
• You need private or audience-specific pages. Those are separate products on their page, with their own pricing, and they are a real capability if your audience is internal staff or a customer segment.
• Your company already centralizes on Atlassian. Buying, billing and access for Statuspage then sit next to the rest of your Atlassian tools.

If your public page will hold a few hundred subscribers and you want a custom domain and a predictable bill, the arithmetic above is worth running with your own number. The full feature comparison lists the rest, and moving a page across is a documented path. For the other free options on the market and what their free plans cap, see free status page tools: what free actually includes.

If you want to try the flat-priced side of it, start a RealUptime Status page free: 100 subscribers, no card. The pricing page has every rung.

Sources

• Atlassian Statuspage pricing, read October 4, 2026: tiers, subscriber and team member limits, FAQ on notifications and yearly billing.
• Atlassian Statuspage product pages for public pages and private pages, read October 4, 2026.
• RealUptime plans and the plan definitions in the product, read October 4, 2026.