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How RealUptime's products compare.
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| Feature | RealUptime Status | Statuspage | Better Stack | Instatus | UptimeRobot | OpenStatus | Pingdom | Hyperping | StatusCake |
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| Built-in endpoint monitoring | Have | Don’t havevia integrations or API | Have | Have | Have | Have | Have | Have | Have |
| Free tier | Have10 monitors, $0/mo | Have25 components, 100 subscribers, 2 team members | Have10 monitors and heartbeats | Have15 monitors | Have50 monitors, 1 region | Have1 monitor, 1 page | Don’t have30-day trial only | Have20 monitors, $0/mo | Have10 uptime monitors, $0/mo; status pages billed separately |
| Multiple named regions shown together per check | Have4 named regions by default, per-check selection | Not publisheddepends on connected monitoring tool | Partial4+ locations by default, not per-check selectable | Don’t haveone location per check, rotated | Don’t haverotational, one region per check per their docs | Partialregions used for redundancy, one status shown per monitor | Don’t haveone probe-region-group per check, rotational | Don’t haverotates one region at a time per minute, confirmed from other selected regions on failure, per their own docs | Not publishedcustom test locations selectable from Superior up, but simultaneous multi-location display is not documented |
| Region selection on free/entry tier | Partial4 of 10 regions, chosen per check | Not published | Not published | Not published | Don’t haveauto-assigned default region only | Partial4 of 28 regions on Hobby | Don’t haveno free tier | Have18 regions listed on the Free tier's own pricing row | Don’t havecustom locations require Superior ($20.41/mo) or above, per their own docs |
| Public subscriber notifications | Haveevery tier including Free | Have100 on Free, more on paid | Have1,000 included on Free | Have200 on Starter | HaveTeam plan ($39/mo+) and up | Haveemail, webhook, Slack | Not publishednot documented on any fetched page | Have100 on Essentials, rising by tier to unlimited on Business | Have300 on StatusCake Pages Bronze ($12.46/mo), a separate product from uptime plans |
| Webhook notifications | Haveevery tier including Free | Not published | Not published | Not published | HaveTeam and Scale plans | Have | Not published | Not publishedlisted as a feature, tier not specified on their pricing page | Partiala single GET-only ping_url endpoint per their API docs, not HMAC-signed |
| Scheduled/maintenance-window display on public page | Havedashboard-scheduled windows render publicly, every tier | Havecore feature on public-page plans | Not published | Not published | HaveSolo and up | Haverenders as an info status on affected components | Not publishedlisted as a feature, public display not documented | Not publishednot documented on any fetched page | Not publishednot documented on any fetched page |
| Team member roles | Haveowner, admin, responder | Have2 on Free, 5 on Hobby | Not published | Have5 on Starter, 50 on Pro | Partialnotify seats only on Solo, login + notify seats from Team | Haveunlimited from Starter ($30/mo) | Haveunlimited users, every product | Have2 seats on Essentials, additional seats billed per user | Havenot included on Free, 1 on Superior, 9 on Business |
| Custom domain with HTTPS | HaveGrowth and Scale, automatic TLS | HaveHobby plan and above | Have | HavePro and Business | HaveSolo plan and up | HaveStarter and up | PartialCNAME supported, but HTTPS needs their own secure-stats domain instead, per their docs | Havefrom Essentials; not included on Free | Not publishednot documented for StatusCake Pages tiers in fetched pages |
| REST API | HaveGrowth and Scale | Haveincluded on public-page plans | Have | Not published | Haveincluded on every plan, including Free | Not publishednot tied to a specific tier in published docs | Have | Havefrom Essentials; not included on Free | Havepublic REST API (v1.2.0); tier not specified in published docs |
| On-call / incident response | Haveescalation policies with acknowledgement and on-call rotations, on Growth and Scale; each escalation step pages a person (email plus their chosen channels) or a channel: Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, Zapier, or webhook; no native phone call or SMS | Not published | Havebuilt in, paid responder licenses, including unlimited phone call alerts | Haveon-call members and escalation: 2 Starter, 20 Pro, 50 Business | Not published | Not published | Not published | Haveon-call and escalation policies from Essentials; phone call alerts from Pro | Not published |
| Self-hosted deployment option | Don’t havehosted only | Don’t have | Don’t have | Don’t have | Don’t have | Haveopen source, AGPL-3.0 | Don’t have | Don’t have | Don’t have |
| Flat, named pricing tiers | HaveFree / $28.99 / $78.99 | Have | Have | Have | Partialnamed tiers, but priced by billing cycle and monitor count | Have | Don’t haveusage-based calculator, no named tiers | HaveFree / $29 / $89 / $299 | HaveFree / $20.41 / $66.66 (annual); status pages priced as a separate product |
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Migrations and third-party comparisons
Not every comparison here is RealUptime Status against one named competitor. A vendor shutting down, or two competitors switchers are actually weighing against each other, belongs on this site too.
Freshping shut down: where to go
Freshworks discontinued Freshping in 2026 with no replacement named. What a former Freshping user needs, sourced to Freshworks' own deprecation FAQ.
Freshstatus shut down: where to go
Freshworks discontinued Freshstatus on March 31, 2026, and the official replacement has no free tier. What a former Freshstatus user needs next, sourced to Freshworks' own migration guide.
Opsgenie is shutting down: where to go
Atlassian ends Opsgenie support on April 5, 2027; sales already stopped and unmigrated data will be deleted. What an alerting team needs next, sourced to Atlassian's own transition announcement.
UptimeRobot vs Pingdom
Two competitors compared directly, feature by feature, sourced and dated, for anyone deciding between the two rather than either one and RealUptime Status.
Status.io vs Statuspage
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GlitchTip vs Bugsink
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Uptime Kuma vs UptimeRobot
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