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Self-hosted alternatives to Atlassian Statuspage, priced

2 open-source tools that can replace Atlassian Statuspage, each shown with what it would actually cost to run for a team of 10 people. Atlassian Statuspage on the Startup tier costs $99.00 a month at that size.

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A free tier covers 100 subscribers, 25 components and two team members. Below that ceiling there is nothing to save.

Monthly cost at 10 people. Self-hosted totals include the server, backups and 75-dollar-an-hour maintenance time.
Tool Server only With your time vs Atlassian Statuspage Operational weight Licence
Gatus $4.80 $42.30 +$1,891 easy Apache-2.0
Uptime Kuma $7.20 $44.70 +$1,805 easy MIT

The final column is the 36-month difference: positive means self-hosting is cheaper.

Which one to pick

Gatus 12,056 stars

Configuration as YAML in version control, which suits teams that want their monitoring reviewed like code. The smallest footprint on this entire site.

At 10 people it needs 0.3 GB of memory and 2.1 GB of disk, which fits the Basic 512 MiB at DigitalOcean for $4.00 a month. Setting it up is roughly 2 hours of work, then 0.5 hours a month to keep it healthy.

Full Atlassian Statuspage versus Gatus breakdown · Gatus at every team size

Uptime Kuma 91,286 stars

One container with SQLite. Cost scales with the number of monitors and their check interval, not with the number of people reading the dashboard.

At 10 people it needs 0.6 GB of memory and 5.1 GB of disk, which fits the Basic 1 GiB at DigitalOcean for $6.00 a month. Setting it up is roughly 2 hours of work, then 0.5 hours a month to keep it healthy.

Full Atlassian Statuspage versus Uptime Kuma breakdown · Uptime Kuma at every team size

How the pricing was established

Atlassian Statuspage pricing was read from its own pricing page on 2026-09-12. Server prices come from the providers listed on the hosting page. The sizing model and the cost of your time are set out in full on the methodology page.

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