realuptime status vs Instatus
Instatus combines monitoring, incident response, on-call, and status pages. Its monitoring guide says each check runs from one selected location at a time and rotates among the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. realuptime status is narrower and shows four named region readings together on the public page.
| Feature | realuptime status | Instatus |
|---|---|---|
| Multiple named regions shown together per check | Havefour region readings per monitor | Don’t haveone location per check, rotated across four geographies |
| Public regional display | Havefour named region states | Partialcomponent and monitor status |
| Monitor types beyond HTTP(S) | Don’t haveHTTP(S) endpoints today | Havewebsite, API, cron, ping, TCP/UDP, and DNS |
| Automatic incident actions | Havedraft and resolve from monitor transitions | Haveconfigurable create, publish, notify, and resolve actions |
| Free allowance | Have1 page, 3 monitors | Have15 monitors and a public status page |
| Free check interval | Have1-minute minimum | Partial2-minute checks |
| Free alert channel | HaveSlack and account email | Partialemail |
| Public subscriber notifications | Haveevery tier | Have200 subscribers on Starter |
| On-call members | Don’t havenot available yet | Have2 Starter, 20 Pro, 50 Business |
| 30-second check interval | Don’t have | HavePro and Business |
| Custom domain with automatic TLS | HaveGrowth and Scale | HavePro and Business |
| Annual billing discount | Don’t haveno annual option listed | Havethree months free when paid yearly |
- Have
- Partial
- Don’t have
- Not published
Verified August 4, 2026. Sources: Instatus pricing, Instatus monitoring guide.
Why teams pick realuptime status
Instatus pages present a component state; realuptime status pages lead with the evidence. Four named regions probe every monitor and their readings are published side by side, disagreement included, so a partial outage looks like exactly what it is. The monitor and the page ship as one product at one flat price: nothing to integrate, and no way for the page to say something the checks did not measure.
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| Feature | realuptime status | Statuspage | Better Stack | Instatus | UptimeRobot | OpenStatus | Pingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built-in endpoint monitoring | Have | Don’t havevia integrations or API | Have | Have | Have | Have | Have |
| Free tier | Have3 monitors, $0/mo | Have1 page, 25 components | Have10 monitors and heartbeats | Have15 monitors | Have50 monitors, 1 region | Have1 monitor, 1 page | Don’t have30-day trial only |
| Multiple named regions shown together per check | Have4 named regions, 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 |
| Region selection on free/entry tier | Haveall 4 regions included | Not published | Not published | Not published | Don’t haveauto-assigned default region only | Partial4 of 28 regions on Hobby | Don’t haveno free tier |
| Public subscriber notifications | Haveevery tier including Free | Have100 on Free, more on paid | Have1,000 included on Free | Have200 on Starter | HaveTeam plan ($33/mo+) and up | Haveemail, webhook, Slack | Not publishednot documented on any fetched page |
| Webhook notifications | Haveevery tier including Free | Not published | Not published | Not published | HaveTeam and Scale plans | Have | Not published |
| Scheduled/maintenance-window display on public page | Don’t havebackend suppression only, no public scheduler yet | 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 |
| Team member roles | Don’t havenot available yet | Have2 on Free, 5 on Hobby | Not published | Have2 on Starter | Partialnotify seats only on Solo, login + notify seats from Team | Haveunlimited from Starter ($30/mo) | Haveunlimited users, every product |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| On-call / incident response | Don’t havenot available yet | Not published | Havebuilt in, paid responder licenses | Not published | Not published | Not published | 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 |
| Flat, named pricing tiers | HaveFree / $29 / $79 | Have | Have | Have | Partialnamed tiers, but priced by billing cycle and monitor count | Have | Don’t haveusage-based calculator, no named tiers |
- Have
- Partial
- Don’t have
- Not published