Uptime Kuma

Who it is for

For developers and small teams. It runs on the web, a computer you control, Linux, and Windows. License: MIT. It is in the DevOps group.

What you pay

Free plan: The MIT-licensed app is free to run. The README does not list a paid plan. There is no hosted price on file. Run it yourself: Easy. The README's Docker command publishes port 3001 and stores data in a volume. A non-Docker install asks for Node.js 20.4 or newer.

How to switch

• Compared with Statuspage. Its price on file: Public Business is $399 a month.

  What you give up: incident reports with updates, email subscribers, and scheduled maintenance, and 1 more. You only get part of: charts of your own metrics.

  Free alternatives to Statuspage

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

• 36
  Instead of Statuspage7 of 7 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: incident reports with updates, email subscribers, and scheduled maintenance, and 1 more. You only get part of: charts of your own metrics.The wiki says the status page is for people checking your services. Multiple pages need version 1.13.0 or newer.The page shows monitor state. The wiki does not describe an incident you write and update.The README's notifications go to Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, and other channels for the person running the checks. The wiki does not describe a public subscribe list.The status page wiki does not describe scheduled maintenance.The wiki documents a domain name per status page, from version 1.14.0, including the DNS record and the host header.The README lists a ping chart. The wiki does not describe a metric you define.The README does not describe an API for posting incidents. Status comes from the monitors.

Related alternatives

DevOps alternatives

• Free alternatives to Bitbucket
• Free alternatives to Conductor
• Free alternatives to GitHub
• Free alternatives to Jules
• Free alternatives to Ollama Cloud
• Free alternatives to Ona

Free apps in this group

• Aider: Terminal pair programming that commits each edit to git.
• Bugsink: A smaller Sentry-compatible error store.
• Cline: An Apache-2.0 coding agent for VS Code and the terminal. No inline autocomplete.
• Continue: An Apache-2.0 IDE assistant. The repository is read-only after the Cursor acquisition.
• cState: A Hugo status page. Incidents are markdown files.
• Cursor: A coding editor with Tab autocomplete and an agent. Free is limited. The code is closed.
• Devin: The desktop editor formerly sold as Windsurf. Free includes Tab. The code is closed.
• Errbit: An older Airbrake-compatible error catcher.
• Forgejo: A community forge, GPL-3.0 since v9.
• Gatus: A health dashboard with a status page in the config file.
• Gitea: A lightweight Git forge.
• GitHub Copilot: GitHub's coding assistant. Free is capped. The code is not public.
• GitLab Community Edition: The MIT edition of GitLab, without EE.
• GlitchTip: Error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs.
• Highlight: Session replay and errors, with a split license.
• Kener: A status page with incidents, maintenance, and email subscriptions.
• llama.cpp: LLM inference in C and C++. The license is MIT. llama-server speaks an OpenAI-style API.
• Ollama: Run open models on your own computer. The license is MIT.
• OneUptime: Status pages plus monitors, incidents, and on-call.
• OpenCode: A terminal and desktop coding agent that can open a GitHub pull request.
• OpenHands: Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control center for coding agents.
• Radicle: A peer-to-peer code forge.
• SigNoz: Traces, metrics, and logs in one app.
• SourceHut: Git hosting composed of small services.
• Tabby: A self-hosted completion server. Community is free for up to 5 users.
• vLLM: An Apache-2.0 model server with an OpenAI-compatible API.

Where we looked

• https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/blob/master/README.md
• https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/blob/master/LICENSE
• https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki/Status-Page