Is Statsy suitable for small teams, and what do the free and paid plans include?

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Statsy is a hosted status page service aimed at developers and small teams, and it is a reasonable fit if you want a public status page plus uptime monitoring without onboarding calls or a sales process. The free plan is described as free forever with no credit card required, and it covers a working status page with per-service health, 90-day uptime history, and one-click email subscriptions for visitors. The main things you only get by paying are a custom domain (like status.yoursite.com) and a 1-minute monitoring check interval on Pro. If a shared Statsy subdomain and a slower check interval are acceptable, the free plan is enough to start.

What Statsy actually does

Statsy bundles three things that are usually separate tools:

  • A public status page — a page your users can check when something breaks, showing real-time service health and uptime history.
  • Uptime monitoring — Statsy checks your endpoints and reflects the result on the page automatically.
  • Incident updates — you post incidents and maintenance windows, and subscribers get notified.

The page itself shows each service as Operational, Degraded, or Outage, plus a 90-day uptime figure. Visitors can subscribe for email alerts in one click without creating an account.

Free vs. paid: what changes

Based on the site's own feature list, here is the split as described:

Capability Free plan Paid / Pro
Status page Yes Yes
Cost to start $0, described as free forever Paid
Credit card required No —
Custom domain (status.yoursite.com) Not included Included
Monitoring check interval Not stated as 1 min 1 minute
Per-service status (Operational / Degraded / Outage) Yes Yes
90-day uptime history Yes Yes
Email subscriber alerts Yes Yes
Scheduled maintenance Yes Yes

Two caveats worth stating plainly: the site does not publish a specific paid price in the material available, and it does not state the free plan's monitoring check interval. So the honest comparison is "custom domain and a 1-minute check interval are the paid differentiators" — not a full price table.

Is it a good fit for a small team?

It fits well when:

  • You have a handful of services (website, API, auth, database, email) and want them listed with individual health.
  • You want users to self-serve alerts rather than you emailing them manually.
  • You don't want a sales call or a complex setup — the site claims an average of about 5 minutes from signup to a live page.
  • You're fine starting on a Statsy subdomain and moving to your own domain later.

It fits less well when:

  • You need a custom domain from day one — that's a paid feature.
  • You need sub-minute monitoring — the fastest stated interval is 1 minute, and only on Pro.
  • You need published, specific pricing before committing — that isn't in the available material, so you'd need to check the pricing page directly.

How setup works

The flow implied by the site is short:

  1. Sign up — no credit card, no spam, per the site.
  2. Add your services — the example page lists Website, API, Auth, Database, Email Delivery, and Dashboard, each with its own status.
  3. Point monitoring at your endpoints — the demo shows checks like https://api.yourapp.com/health returning 142ms Operational, https://yourapp.com at 2.4s Degraded, and https://dashboard.yourapp.com timing out as Outage.
  4. Publish the page — visitors see live status, 90-day uptime, and a subscribe button.
  5. Let alerts fire — when a check fails, the page updates and subscribers get an email; the demo shows an outage notice followed by a recovery notice about 4 minutes later.

Expected result: a public page at your Statsy URL (or your own domain on paid plans) that updates itself, with subscribers notified automatically.

Common sticking points

  • Custom domain is the paywall. If status.yoursite.com matters to you, budget for a paid plan.
  • Check interval affects how fast you notice. At a 1-minute Pro interval, a brief outage may still be caught; on a slower interval, short blips can be missed.
  • Subscribers don't need accounts, but that also means you can't gate who subscribes. One-click subscribe is convenient and open.
  • Uptime history is 90 days. If you need longer retention for compliance or reporting, that isn't offered here.

If your goal is a transparent, low-effort status page for a small team, start on the free plan, confirm the current paid price and free-tier check interval on the pricing page, and upgrade only when you need the custom domain or faster checks.