Openstatus vs Status.io
Openstatus and Status.io are both status page software. Openstatus is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.2k GitHub stars. Status.io is a commercial product from Status.io.
Which to pick
- Pick Openstatus when
- You need a public status page plus synthetic uptime checks and prefer an open-source vendor.
- Pick Status.io when
- You need a hosted status page with many notification options at a mid-range price.
Side by side
A status page and uptime monitoring tool with checks from multiple regions, incident updates and notifications.
Hosted status pages with incident and maintenance communication, multiple notification channels and system metrics.
AGPL license, no tagged releases, and self-hosting relies on services like Turso and Tinybird.
It is a small vendor with a dated interface.
Usable
Production-ready
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript, Go, Turso and Tinybird
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Status.io
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.
9.2k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 3 years ago, no tagged release yet.
Not known
Other comparisons
More status page tools
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.