The price anchor
| Upkeep Status | Statuspage.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $29+/mo |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $348 |
| 5-year total | $29 | $1,740 |
| 10-year total | $29 | $3,480 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($29+/mo, ~$348/yr); the Upkeep Status column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
One month of Statuspage covers Upkeep Status outright — and it never charges you again, whatever your subscriber count.
- After 1 year: Upkeep Status has cost you $29 total — Statuspage.io has cost $348.
- After 3 years: Upkeep Status is still $29 — the subscription is at $1,044.
- After 5 years: Upkeep Status is still $29 — the subscription is at $1,740.
What you get for $29 once
- 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.
- Email subscribers. A subscribe form with double opt-in when SMTP is set, notified on new incidents and resolutions, one-click unsubscribe.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $29 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Upkeep Status is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/status-page-mvp and always will be. The $29 buys the packaged installer, 1-click setup and updates; building from source is free.
Where does my status data live?
In a SQLite file on your own server. No cloud, no telemetry, no per-subscriber metering.
Should the status page live with the app it monitors?
No — deploy it on a separate $5 VPS from your main app so it stays up to report an outage even when your primary infrastructure is down.
Is this a subscription in disguise?
No. $29 once, no renewal, no license server phoning home.
Upkeep Status — $29, one time
Or get Upkeep Status plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.