Instatus vs Openstatus
Instatus and Openstatus are both status page software. Instatus is a commercial product from Instatus. Openstatus is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.2k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Instatus when
- A startup wants a good-looking status page cheaply.
- Pick Openstatus when
- You need a public status page plus synthetic uptime checks and prefer an open-source vendor.
Side by side
Fast, low-cost hosted status pages with monitoring, subscriber notifications and integrations.
A status page and uptime monitoring tool with checks from multiple regions, incident updates and notifications.
It is a small vendor with fewer enterprise features.
AGPL license, no tagged releases, and self-hosting relies on services like Turso and Tinybird.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Not published
TypeScript, Go, Turso and Tinybird
Closed source, sold by Instatus
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
No Wikipedia article of its own
9.2k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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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.