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RealUptime Status vs OpenStatus
OpenStatus is an open-source monitoring and status-page platform with a self-hosted option. Its own documentation gates per-monitor region access by tier: 4 regions on the free Hobby plan, 6 on Starter, and the full 28-region pool only on Pro and Scale. RealUptime Status gates region count by plan too, from a smaller pool: four regions on Free, eight on Growth, all ten on Scale. The difference is not the ladder, it is what reaches the visitor: we publish every region a monitor reads as its own named state, where OpenStatus shows one aggregated status per component and filters single-region failures out of the public signal.
Regions per monitor
Partial
4 on Free, 8 on Growth, all 10 on Scale
Partial
4 on Hobby, 6 on Starter, 28 on Pro and Scale
Total region pool size
Partial
10 fixed regions
Have
28 locations across three hosting providers
Multiple named regions shown together per check
Have
every region the plan includes shown together by default (four regions on Free, eight on Growth, all ten on Scale), configurable down per monitor
Don’t have
one aggregated status per component, single-region failures filtered from the public signal per their own docs
Free tier monitors
Have
10
Don’t have
1
Free tier status pages
Have
1 page
Have
1 page, 3 components
Free check interval
Have
1-minute minimum
Don’t have
10-minute minimum
Entry paid plan
Have
$28.99/mo Growth
Have
$30/mo Starter, plus $20/mo per additional status page
Fastest check interval
Have
30 seconds on Scale
Have
30 seconds on Pro and Scale
Public subscriber notifications
Have
every tier
Have
email, webhook, and Slack push, admin-added or self-subscribe
Scheduled maintenance display
Have
dashboard-scheduled windows render a public info banner on the status page, every tier
Have
renders publicly as an info status on affected components
Team member access
Have
owner, admin and responder roles
Have
team members available from Starter ($30/mo)
Self-hosted deployment option
Don’t have
hosted only
Have
open source (AGPL-3.0), self-hostable via Docker Compose
Is there a free tier?
RealUptime is free to start and never asks for a card. One signup turns on the free rung of every product: 10 monitors with a public status page, 5 server-agent slots, and 10,000 error events a month kept for 14 days. RealUptime Outages is free to read with no account at all.
OpenStatus: 1 monitor and 1 status page with 3 components, on a 10-minute check minimum.
Is it open source or self-hosted?
RealUptime's core is a hosted service and its source is not published, so there is no self-hosted edition of the platform itself. The parts that run on your side are open source at github.com/RealUptimeHQ: the CLI and the RealUptime Errors SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP and Ruby are MIT-licensed, and the Grafana data source is Apache 2.0.
OpenStatus: open source under AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable with Docker Compose.
If self-hosting is a hard requirement, these are the open-source options in this category: Uptime Kuma (MIT), OpenStatus (AGPL-3.0), Healthchecks.io (BSD 3-Clause) and OneUptime (Apache 2.0).
Looking for an OpenStatus alternative?
For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.