Statuspage vs Checkly
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Statuspage and Checkly.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
Statuspage
0 reviews
4.1/5
Checkly
0 reviews
Checkly is rated higher (4.1 vs 3.9). Atlassian's hosted status page platform: component-based status, subscriber notifications (email/Slack/Teams free; SMS/webhook paid), scheduled maintenance, Jira and Opsgenie integration. Public, private, and audience-specific pages. Checkly enables monitoring as code using Playwright for E2E browser checks and HTTP API checks. Define checks alongside your code in TypeScript. Global check locations.
Statuspage Incident communication from Atlassian | Checkly Monitoring as code with Playwright and API checks | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.1 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | freemium |
| Starting price | Free tier available | Free tier available |
| Best for | SaaS and infrastructure teams that want a credible, component-level public status page with subscriber notifications, especially when already using Jira or Opsgenie. | Engineering teams who want to define synthetic and API monitoring tests as code in their repository and run them from global locations |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tierapi accessteam features | free tieropen sourceapi access |
| Visit Statuspage → | Visit Checkly → | |
Statuspage
Pros
- + The recognized standard — the status page most users already know how to read
- + Genuinely usable free plan: 100 subscribers, 25 components, API included
- + Component subscriptions let users follow only the services they use
- + Deep Atlassian integrations: Jira, Opsgenie, Slack, Microsoft Teams
- + Three page types (public, private, audience-specific) cover customer and internal comms
Cons
- - SMS and webhook notifications gated behind the $99/mo Startup plan
- - Component subscriptions and full HTML/JS customization need the $399/mo Business plan
- - Enterprise pricing (from $1,499/mo) is steep versus newer status-page rivals
- - SSO costs extra via Atlassian Guard; Atlassian account sprawl adds friction
- - Plan-name and subscriber-count details differ between Atlassian's own pricing page and buyer's guide
Checkly
Pros
- + True monitoring as code: TypeScript + Playwright checks versioned in your repo and deployed via CLI
- + Useful free Hobby tier and clear published plan pricing
- + 22 global check locations plus private locations for internal services on Team+
- + Full check types (HTTP, TCP, DNS, ICMP, SSL/TLS, gRPC, traceroute, heartbeat) with rich alerting and status pages
- + Local test mode in CI catches broken checks before deploy; SOC 2 since 2022
Cons
- - Usage-based billing scales with frequency x locations x checks — overage at $4 per 1,000 runs adds up
- - Developer-only tool: no point-and-click path for non-technical teams
- - Synthetic monitoring only — not a replacement for APM, logs, or metrics platforms
- - No public uptime SLA for the platform itself; best features (1-second checks, parallel scheduling) gated to Enterprise
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