ScaledPapers vs Statuspage
Statuspage is Atlassian's incident-communication service. You tell it what happened; it emails and texts your subscribers and hosts a public page. It does not check whether your site is up — you bring your own monitoring (PagerDuty, Datadog, an internal health check) and Statuspage renders what those tools report.
ScaledPapers is the other half of that job: it pings your URLs on a schedule from multiple regions, opens incidents when a check fails, and publishes the public page — in one product, with a free plan.
At a glance
| ScaledPapers | Statuspage | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Uptime monitoring + public status pages | Status pages only (no monitoring) |
| Built-in checks | HTTP/API, website, DNS, and TCP checks on your interval | None — relies on external monitoring |
| Probe regions | 5 Americas regions per check; 16-region one-shot checker on the homepage | n/a |
| Incidents | Compose in the console, auto-open from failed checks | Compose manually or automate from your monitoring |
| Public page | {slug}.status.scaledpapers.com or a custom domain on Pro; email/RSS/Slack subscribe |
Highly customizable, custom domains and HTML/CSS on paid plans |
| Checks API | api.scaledpapers.com, list/add/pause/run/history |
REST API for posting incidents and components |
| Free plan | Status pages + 5 checks + API keys, free | 100 subscribers, 2 team members, no custom domain |
| Paid starts | Not live yet (free while in beta) | $29/mo (Hobby, 250 subscribers) |
Where ScaledPapers fits
You want one tool that both watches the site and tells customers. A check that fails three times in a row flips the component on your status page and can open an incident — no glue code between a monitor and a page. The console creates pages and checks in minutes, and the Checks API manages them programmatically.
What ScaledPapers does not have today: SMS/phone subscriber alerts (email, RSS, and Slack are live).
Where Statuspage fits
Statuspage is the industry default for communicating incidents at scale: subscriber management, component-level status, metrics display, and Atlassian ecosystem integrations (Jira, Opsgenie, Confluence). It fits teams that already have monitoring and need a mature, customizable page with enterprise features like SSO and audience-specific private pages.
If you want Statuspage's page but not the price of feeding it with a separate monitor, that gap is what ScaledPapers covers: free pages, built-in probes, and the same subscribe options (email, RSS, Slack) on the free plan.
Notes
- Statuspage pricing is subscriber-tiered: Free (100 subscribers), Hobby $29 (250), Startup $99 (1,000), Business $399 (5,000), Enterprise $1,499 (25,000). Private and audience-specific pages cost extra.
- ScaledPapers counts nothing against subscribers today and its checks, incidents, and API access are free during the pre-paid period.
- Product updates are on the changelog.