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title: "Statuspage alternative with monitoring"
description: "Spectate vs Atlassian Statuspage: status pages with custom domains, subscribers and a Statuspage-compatible API, plus uptime monitoring and on-call, from €48 a month."
url: https://spectate.net/compare/statuspage-alternative
last_updated: 2026-11-03
---

# The Statuspage alternative with monitoring built in

> Status pages that follow your incidents, with the uptime checks, on-call and alerting that open them. Same JSON format as Statuspage, so widgets and integrations keep working.

**Atlassian Statuspage** (https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage, Australia (Atlassian, Sydney), Atlassian): Statuspage is Atlassian's hosted status page product for public, private and audience-specific pages, with subscriber notifications by email, SMS and webhook. It doesn't monitor your services itself.

**Atlassian Statuspage pricing:** Statuspage has a free public page with 100 subscribers. Paid public or private pages are Hobby $29, Startup $99, Business $300 and Enterprise $1,499 a month; audience-specific pages start at $300 a month (checked October 2026).

**Spectate pricing:** Starter €0.75 per monitor (from €15 a month), Team €0.60 per monitor (from €48 a month), Business €0.50 per monitor (from €125 a month); whole team included from Team. Prices exclude VAT.

## Spectate vs Atlassian Statuspage

### Monitoring

|  | Spectate | Atlassian Statuspage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Built-in uptime monitoring | Yes | No |
| Server, certificate and domain monitoring | Yes | No |

### Alerting and on-call

|  | Spectate | Atlassian Statuspage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| On-call schedules and escalation paths (Atlassian sells on-call in Jira Service Management.) | Team and Business | No |

### Incidents

|  | Spectate | Atlassian Statuspage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Incidents with roles and postmortems (Statuspage posts incident updates; incident response lives in Jira Service Management.) | Yes | Partly |
| Monitors update component status (Statuspage takes status from integrations and its API.) | Yes | Partly |

### Status pages

|  | Spectate | Atlassian Statuspage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Custom domain | Yes | Yes |
| Private status pages | Team and Business | Yes |
| Password protection (Statuspage private pages use SSO or IP allowlisting instead.) | Yes | No |
| Audience-specific pages | No | Yes |
| Subscribers | 250, 2,500 or 25,000 | 100 to 25,000 (Free 100, Hobby 250, Startup 1,000, Business 5,000, Enterprise 25,000) |
| SMS to subscribers | No | From Startup |
| Statuspage-compatible JSON API | Yes | Yes |
| Themes, fonts and languages | 8 themes, 8 fonts, 6 languages | Custom CSS and HTML |
| RSS and Atom feeds | Yes | Yes |

### Pricing

|  | Spectate | Atlassian Statuspage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price for a page with 1,000 subscribers and 5 team members | €48 a month (Team: 80 monitors × €0.60, with 5 status pages, 2,500 subscribers and unlimited members) | $99 a month (Startup: 1,000 subscribers, 10 team members, no monitoring) |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Billing currency | EUR | USD |

### Data and compliance

|  | Spectate | Atlassian Statuspage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Headquarters | Netherlands | Australia |
| Invoiced from the EU, in euros | Yes | No |
| SSO (Spectate offers sign-in with GitHub, Google and Microsoft, not SAML.) | No | Yes |

## Which one to choose

Choose Spectate when:

- You want monitoring, on-call and incidents behind the status page, not a separate tool for each.
- You want more subscribers for less: 2,500 on Team at €48 a month.
- You want 8 themes, colour overrides, 8 fonts and 6 languages without custom CSS.
- You want the Statuspage JSON format, so existing widgets and integrations keep working.

Choose Atlassian Statuspage when:

- You run Jira Service Management and want status pages in the Atlassian suite.
- You need audience-specific pages that show different components to different customer groups.
- You need SMS notifications to subscribers. Spectate sends subscriber updates by email, RSS and Atom.
- You need SSO or Atlassian's compliance programme.

## Switching from Atlassian Statuspage

1. Start a 14-day trial; no card needed.
2. Create your status page and components. There is no importer; most pages take a few minutes to rebuild, and help@spectate.net can help.
3. Add monitors for each component, so incidents and status follow your checks.
4. Point your status page domain at Spectate with one DNS record. Integrations that read Statuspage's JSON (/api/v2/summary.json) keep working.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Spectate cheaper than Statuspage?

For most teams, yes. Spectate Team costs €48 a month and includes 5 status pages, 2,500 subscribers, unlimited members and 80 monitors. Statuspage Startup costs $99 a month for 1,000 subscribers and has no monitoring.

### Will my Statuspage widgets and integrations keep working?

Most will. Every Spectate status page serves the Statuspage JSON format: summary, status, components, incidents and scheduled maintenances under /api/v2/. Tools that read that format can point at your Spectate page.

### Can I import my Statuspage history?

There is no importer. Components and settings take a few minutes to recreate, and help@spectate.net can help with larger pages. Past incidents don't come along.

### Can subscribers get SMS updates?

Not on Spectate. Subscribers get email with double opt-in, or follow the RSS and Atom feeds. If SMS to subscribers is a must, Statuspage supports it from the Startup plan.

### Does Spectate monitor my services too?

Yes. Spectate checks websites, APIs, ports, DNS and mail servers, watches certificates, domains and servers, and pages whoever is on call. Status pages show component status from your incidents and maintenance.

Facts about Atlassian Statuspage checked in 2026-10 from: https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage/pricing. Report a mistake to hello@spectate.net.