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RealUptime Status vs Status.io

Status.io has run hosted status pages for over a decade and its feature list shows it: SMS and social broadcast on higher tiers, SSO for private pages, custom certificates. It does not run uptime checks of its own; its charts are powered by a custom metric API or external monitoring sources, per its own site. RealUptime Status is built the other way around: the page is a front end on measurements the product itself takes.

The short version

Status.io is a mature incident-communication platform priced for larger teams; RealUptime Status is the monitor and the page in one product, starting free.

Status.io is a serious product for teams that already have monitoring and want a polished communication layer on top: if you need SMS subscriber notifications or SSO-gated private pages today, it has features we do not. What it cannot do, by its own architecture, is know whether your service is up: something else has to tell it. RealUptime Status removes that layer. The monitor and the page are the same product, every component state is a measurement the page took itself, and the whole thing starts at $0/mo instead of $79. For most teams below enterprise size, that difference in both honesty and price is the decision.

Start free: 10 monitors

Verified September 2, 2026. Sources: Status.io pricing, Status.io homepage (metrics via external sources).

Built-in endpoint monitoring

Have

every component's state comes from RealUptime's own probes

Don’t have

charts are powered via its Custom Metric API or external sources such as New Relic or Pingdom, per its own homepage

Free tier

Have

1 page, 10 monitors, 100 subscribers, $0/mo

Don’t have

no free plan on its published pricing; plans start at $79/mo (Basic)

Entry paid plan

Have

$28.99/mo Growth

Have

$79/mo Basic: 500 subscribers, 5 team members, 5 metrics

Subscriber notifications

Have

email and webhook on every tier; 100 subscribers free, up to 10,000 on Scale

Have

email and webhook on all tiers; SMS (via Twilio or Vonage) and Twitter/X broadcast on higher tiers

Phone-call and SMS notifications

Don’t have

subscriber and alert channels are email, Slack, webhook, and the integration registry; no telephony

Have

SMS notifications through your Twilio or Vonage account, on higher tiers

Custom domain with automatic TLS

Have

Growth and Scale

Have

custom domain and TLS subdomain on all tiers

Automatic incident updates on monitor transitions

Have

a failing monitor offers a one-click, prefilled incident

Partial

via its API or connected external monitoring, not from checks of its own

Deciding between Status.io and Statuspage instead?

A lot of buyers weigh Status.io against Atlassian's Statuspage rather than against a monitoring-first product. We compare those two directly, feature by feature and sourced the same way as this page, at Status.io vs Statuspage.

Looking for a Status.io 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.

Start free: 10 monitors