As of 2 Nov 2026, the panel rates Atlassian Statuspage 2/5 and Instatus 2.5/5 in Uptime Monitoring & Status Pages. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 1 of the 6 judges picks Atlassian Statuspage and 5 pick Instatus. Atlassian Statuspage scores higher on 4 of 7 criteria (Pricing transparency, Status pages & incident communication, European sovereignty, plus 1 more). Instatus scores higher on 3 of 7 criteria (Checks, locations & failure confirmation, Alerting, escalation & on-call and Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability). Provenance — Atlassian Statuspage: Rest of world; Instatus: Rest of world, United States. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Instatus takes checks and locations 4.0 to 0.0, six judges to zero: Statuspage, a status communication product, takes component status from DataDog, New Relic, Librato or Pingdom, while Instatus runs TCP, UDP and DNS monitors from the United States, Canada, Europe or Asia at intervals down to 30 seconds on paid plans. It also leads alerting and on-call (6.0 to 4.3; five to zero) and reports and reliability (4.8 to 4.2; four to one). Statuspage leads status pages (7.8 to 7.2; four to zero), pricing transparency (5.8 to 4.2; six to zero, five public tiers from a free plan to Enterprise $1,499 /month while Instatus publishes limits but no Pro or Business amounts) and sovereignty (3.5 to 3.0; three to zero, three ties). Automation and teams: five ties, one Statuspage lean, 6.0 to 5.8. Weighted totals lean Instatus on five benches, Statuspage on one — customer support, 5.4 to 5.3.
Choose Atlassian Statuspage if
You need published prices for each tier before sign-off — Statuspage publishes five tiers from its free plan to Enterprise at $1,499 /month, and pricing transparency leans Statuspage six judges to zero.
You need public, private and audience-specific status pages on a custom domain with custom CSS, HTML and JavaScript — status pages leans Statuspage 7.8 to 7.2, four judges to zero.
You want a 90-day per-component uptime history with its calculation formula published — Statuspage's status-pages verdict lists both, and the criterion leans Statuspage 7.8 to 7.2.
Your team builds against a documented REST API with an OpenAPI specification — automation and teams reads 6.0 for Statuspage against 5.8, with five judges tied and one leaning Statuspage.
You run the evaluation from a support desk's perspective — the customer support lead's weighted total leans Statuspage 5.4 to 5.3.
Choose Instatus if
You need monitoring inside the status product — TCP, UDP and DNS checks run from the United States, Canada, Europe or Asia at intervals down to 30 seconds on paid plans; checks and locations leans Instatus 4.0 to 0.0, six judges to zero.
You want on-call features documented for the product you buy — Statuspage's captured pages document escalation, phone calls and on-call rotations only for the separate Opsgenie product, and alerting and on-call leans Instatus 6.0 to 4.3, five judges to zero.
You weigh reports and reliability beyond a hand-recorded uptime record — Statuspage's verdict derives its uptime from incidents a person records, editable by hand; the criterion leans Instatus 4.8 to 4.2, four judges to one.
You require a US legal entity — Instatus's legal entity jurisdiction attribute reads US, while the captured attributes for Statuspage list legal entity jurisdiction as unknown.
You score across several buyer roles at once — five of the six weighted totals lean Instatus, from the agency developer (4.8 to 4.3) to the skeptic (4.8 to 3.8).
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The E-Commerce Operations Manager
Runs operations for an online shop selling garden furniture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with half the year's revenue between March and June. The homepage once answered 200 while the checkout threw an error for six hours. Wants the checkout and the payment page checked, not only the homepage, an SMS or call to whoever is on duty that night, and a report that shows the agency what the downtime cost.
Atlassian Statuspage
Instatus
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Checks, locations & failure confirmation
Atlassian Statuspage
The captured pages describe Statuspage as real-time status communication for users, and monitoring is described in the other direction — DataDog, New Relic or Pingdom update my page once they detect an issue, or an email with "UP" or "DOWN" in the subject line flips a component. I found no public information on Statuspage running HTTP, keyword or transaction checks against my checkout and payment pages itself, so detection would have to come from another tool.
Instatus
TCP, UDP and DNS monitors run from the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, with configurable frequency down to 30 seconds on the paid tiers and latency or response statistics recorded per check. But we found no public information on HTTP keyword checks or browser and transaction checks of a checkout flow, and nothing on confirming a failure from a second location before alerting — so these pages only prove the domain, its records and its ports are watched, not that a broken checkout would be caught while the homepage still answers fine.
Alerting, escalation & on-call
Atlassian Statuspage
Notification channels are broad — subscribers can get email, text message, in-app messages, Slack, Microsoft Teams and automated Twitter updates, and scheduled maintenance notifies email, text and webhook subscribers with a reminder before the window starts. But that reaches my customers, not my night shift: I found no public information on escalation policies, on-call schedules, acknowledge-and-resolve or phone-call alerts for Statuspage itself — the escalation and on-call pages captured belong to the vendor's separate Opsgenie product.
Instatus
The Business tier lists SMS and call alerts, on-call schedules support daily, weekly and custom rotations with time-of-day restrictions, and email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and signed webhooks are all documented — that is the night-call setup I need. We found no public information on acknowledging and resolving from the app, alert grouping, escalation timeout rules, or per-country prices for SMS and calls, since SMS runs through your own Twilio, Vonage, Esendex, Bird or AWS account.
Status pages & incident communication
Atlassian Statuspage
This is the product's core and it is thorough: public, private and audience-specific pages on a custom domain, custom styling up to CSS, HTML and JavaScript on the Business tier, components and component groups with per-component subscriptions, incident templates, embeddable status widgets, scheduled maintenance with automated notifications, and a 90-day uptime display per component with the calculation published. Private pages lock down with SAML 2.0 single sign-on or IP allowlisting. I found no public information on page languages, RSS subscribers, or how the page itself stays online when the vendor's service has trouble.
Instatus
Components and component groups with per-component uptime history, subscribers reachable by email, SMS, webhook, Slack, Teams, Discord, X and RSS, per-component notification choices, and private or audience-specific pages with single sign-on covering private status page logins. We found no public information on incident templates, embeddable widgets, several page languages, or how the status page hosting is kept separate from the main service.
API, monitoring as code & team administration
Atlassian Statuspage
There is a documented REST API with an OpenAPI specification covering incidents, components, metrics, postmortems and per-page user roles, plus team member limits per plan and SAML 2.0 single sign-on — for team members via Atlassian Guard and for private-page viewers. I found no public information on Terraform or monitoring-as-code, checks triggered from CI/CD, SCIM provisioning, audit logs or bulk import of monitors.
Instatus
A documented REST API covers status page updates, on-call schedules and monitoring integrations, SAML single sign-on with SCIM provisioning is available on the Business plan through their identity platform, and subscribers can be bulk-imported from CSV. We found no public information on a Terraform provider or any monitoring-as-code workflow, audit logs, client sub-accounts, or white-label reports for agencies.
Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability
Atlassian Statuspage
Uptime history runs 90 days per component with the formula published — partial outages count 30 percent as bad as major ones — and it can be edited by hand, so I read it as customer communication rather than an audit-proof record for arguing downtime costs with my agency. The customer agreement points to a service level agreement without publishing its terms here, and I found no public information on response-time data, scheduled reports, or the vendor's own status page and incident history.
Instatus
The service-level agreement is genuinely published with a concrete credit formula — ten times the hourly plan cost for each day with more than five minutes of downtime, capped at the month's payment — and the vendor measures its own availability from independent locations and publishes it at instat.us. But we found no public information on scheduled email reports, branded client-ready reports, how long check results are kept, or response-time percentiles, so I could not hand my agency a downtime-cost report built from these pages.
European sovereignty
Atlassian Statuspage
The contracting entity is Atlassian Pty Ltd, incorporated in Australia and addressed in San Francisco, the privacy policy states information may be transferred and stored wherever Atlassian and its service providers operate, and the captured pages state no hosting location for account data or subscriber lists. A published data processing agreement, a public sub-processor list with 30 days' notice, an EU representative and Irish law for EMEA customers are the European safeguards shown; for my German shop the unstated data location is the sticking point.
Instatus
The captured pages state that data is stored primarily in the United States, the contracting entity is a Delaware corporation under Delaware courts, and transfers out of the EEA rely on Standard Contractual Clauses; a data processing addendum does exist and applies automatically. The privacy policy points to a subprocessors page whose contents the captured pages do not show, no ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification is stated, and we found no public information on EU hosting or a self-hosted edition.
Pricing transparency
Atlassian Statuspage
All five tiers are public from a free plan up to Business $399 /month and Enterprise $1,499 /month, each with subscriber, team member and metric limits, and the customer agreement adds a 30-day return window and auto-renewal terms. Single sign-on requires Atlassian Guard at a price I found no public information on, extra team members are a support request rather than a listed price, and I found no public information on the cost of a text message to a subscriber or on VAT treatment.
Instatus
Tier limits are public in detail — monitors, check interval, subscribers, on-call members, team members, custom domains, and which tiers get SMS or calls — alongside a free Starter tier, 25 percent off yearly payment, USD pricing with VAT excluded, and invoicing for Business and Enterprise. But the captured pricing page gives no price figure for the Pro and Business tiers themselves, and we found no public information on per-message costs for SMS and call alerts beyond routing them through your own provider account.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
Atlassian Statuspage
Instatus
Legal entity
Not determined
Incorporated in US
Hosting location
Not determined
Not determined
Hosting options
Not determined
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Open source
Not determined
Not determined
Data processing agreement
Not determined
Not determined
Transfer impact assessment
Not determined
Not determined
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
Which is better, Atlassian Statuspage or Instatus?
As of 2 Nov 2026, the panel rates Instatus higher: 2.5/5 against 2/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 1 of the 6 judges picks Atlassian Statuspage and 5 pick Instatus. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Atlassian Statuspage or Instatus European?
Atlassian Statuspage is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Instatus is not European by provenance (Rest of world, United States). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Do Atlassian Statuspage and Instatus have a free plan?
As of 2 Nov 2026, both vendors’ own pages state a free plan. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.