Status pages, October 2026: 1 open gap — 0 closed, 2 opened.

What was read

6 companies placed; 1 read during October 2026.

• StatuspageSep 30, 2026
• InstatusSep 30, 2026
• OpenstatusSep 30, 2026
• Better StackSep 30, 2026
• Status page honestySep 30, 2026
• Small SaaS teams communicating incidentsSep 30, 2026

Gaps closed and opened

4 themes were raised about two or more of 5 read companies; 1 shares no word with anything a company declares. Against the previous month: 2 gaps opened and 0 closed (0 now share a word with a declared capability, 0 no longer raised about two companies). Themes are compared by their words, so a theme the reading reworded counts as one closed and one opened.

Opened · 2

Billing, fees and cancellation, Performance and speed

Now answered in the declared names · 0

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No longer raised about two companies · 0

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• ● Price levelraised about 3 of 5
• ◌ Billing, fees and cancellationraised about 2 of 5 · no declared match
• ◌ Performance and speedraised about 2 of 5 · no declared match
• ● Bugs and reliabilityraised about 2 of 5

Who entered

0 companies placed; 3 products sighted by a search and not yet read (OneUptime, DevHelm, Visual Sentinel).

• OneUptime — sighted Oct 5, 2026 · source
• DevHelm — sighted Oct 5, 2026 · source
• Visual Sentinel — sighted Oct 5, 2026 · source

Pricing moves

5 of 6 read companies have a pricing entry on record; none recorded a pricing change this month.

• Statuspage [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Statuspage's public-page pricing track is tiered as Free, Hobby ($29/mo), Startup ($99/mo), Business ($399/mo), and Enterprise ($1499/mo), each with published subscriber/team-member/metrics caps. source
• Instatus [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Instatus has a free Starter plan, a Pro plan at $20/month ($15/month billed annually), and a Business plan at $300/month ($225/month billed annually). source
• Openstatus [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Openstatus's current paid tiers are Starter ($30/mo), Pro ($100/mo), and Scale ($500/mo), differentiated by number of status pages, components, monitors, and check interval (1m on Starter, 30s on Pro/Scale), with all tiers including monitoring from 28 regions. source
• Better Stack [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Better Stack has no single price: it offers a free tier (10 monitors, 1 status page, basic log access), then a per-responder incident/on-call license priced around $29/month annual ($34 monthly), with separate add-on packs for extra monitors, telemetry volume (logs/metrics/traces), and status page features layered on top. source
• Status page honesty [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Atlassian Statuspage pricing is commonly cited as starting around $29/month (Hobby) with private pages starting at $79/month and top plans reaching $399/month, while numerous alternatives (Hyperping from ~$19-24/mo flat with monitoring/on-call bundled, OpenStatus at $30/mo flat, UptimeRobot from $7-9/mo, Instatus from $15-20/mo) position themselves as cheaper and more automated than Statuspage's largely manual, page-only model. source

What users raised

18 themes raised by users; the most raised: Price level (3 of 5), Billing, fees and cancellation (2 of 5), Bugs and reliability (2 of 5).

• Price level 3/5
• Billing, fees and cancellation 2/5
• Bugs and reliability 2/5
• Performance and speed 2/5
• Analytics and reporting 1/5
• customer segmentation not reflecting actual incident impact 1/5
• delayed incident updates 1/5
• Expensive for a single status page 1/5
• Free tier, trial and paywalled features 1/5
• Manual work and automation 1/5
• missing historical incident records 1/5
• Newer platform with less track record than incumbents 1/5
• Not a monitoring tool, only a display layer 1/5
• Perceived slow feature development since Atlassian acquisition 1/5
• reconstructing timelines from scattered Slack/log sources 1/5
• SSO/private pages locked to $300 tier 1/5
• status page hosted on same infra it monitors 1/5
• Usage limits and caps 1/5

Funding by quarter

0 rounds recorded across 2 read quarters; sums are floors per currency and per tag, never combined.

• 2025-Q1not read
• 2025-Q2not read
• 2025-Q3not read
• 2025-Q4not read
• 2026-Q1not read
• 2026-Q2not read
• 2026-Q30 rounds
• 2026-Q40 rounds

The ledger this month

4 observed claims recorded this month.

• PRODUCT · 3
• POSITIONING · 1