Upkeep Status and Statuspage.io solve the same problem from opposite directions: one is source-available software you can own outright for $29, the other is a subscription at $29+/mo run entirely on someone else's servers.
Head to head
| Upkeep Status | Statuspage.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 once | $29+/mo |
| 1 year | $29 | $348+ |
| Components + uptime bars | Yes | Yes |
| Incident timelines | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled maintenance | Yes | Yes |
| Email subscribers | Yes | Metered |
| Custom domain | Yes, free | Paid tier |
| Your data | Your SQLite file | Their cloud |
What Upkeep Status does well
- Components with five states — Operational, degraded, partial or major outage and maintenance — toggle manually or auto-flip from your uptime monitor via a per-component webhook.
- Incident timelines — The classic investigating → identified → monitoring → resolved flow, every update timestamped on the public page.
- Scheduled maintenance — Windows shown in advance that auto-transition scheduled → in progress → complete, with no cron required.
- 90-day uptime bars — Per component, computed from real status-change history and cached daily.
What Statuspage.io still does better
There's a real reason Statuspage.io costs what it does: a bigger team, broader integrations and dedicated support behind it. If that ecosystem is genuinely what you need, it's worth paying for.
Which one should you pick
If your workflow depends on Statuspage.io's specific integrations or you'd rather not run anything yourself, stay put — that's a legitimate call. If you're comfortable owning the tool and want to stop paying $29+/mo for a job your own hardware can do, Upkeep Status pays for itself and then some: one month of Statuspage covers Upkeep Status outright — and it never charges you again, whatever your subscriber count.
Try Upkeep Status — $29, once
Components, incident timelines, maintenance windows and email subscribers — self-hosted on a $5 VPS.