Checkmate vs Instatus
Checkmate and Instatus are both status page software. Checkmate is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 11k GitHub stars. Instatus is a commercial product from Instatus.
Which to pick
- Pick Checkmate when
- You want an Uptime Kuma-style monitor that also tracks server CPU, memory and disk.
- Pick Instatus when
- A startup wants a good-looking status page cheaply.
Side by side
A self-hosted monitor for website uptime, response times, server hardware and incidents, with status pages.
Fast, low-cost hosted status pages with monitoring, subscriber notifications and integrations.
AGPL license, and hardware monitoring needs its separate agent.
It is a small vendor with fewer enterprise features.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript, JavaScript and MongoDB
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Instatus
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
11k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v3.13.1.
Not known
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.