Status.io is stable. LiveStatus ships the mobile app, the free tier, and the AI.
Status.io covers the basics well, so teams that need it pay $79 to $349 a month for a web-only tool. LiveStatus gives you a real native iOS and Android app, a free plan, AI incident drafting, and 60-second monitoring at $149.
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Two tools, very different decades
Status.io has been around for a long time and it is a solid, dependable status page tool. Status automation, incident management, planned maintenance, SMS via Twilio, SSO, white-label, custom CSS. The checklist is there.
The gaps show up the moment your team tries to use it on the go. No native mobile app, so incident response means laptops and email. No free tier, so the entry point is $79 a month for 500 subscribers. No AI anywhere in the product, so postmortems and sales answers still start from a blank page.
LiveStatus rebuilds the same surface area on a modern stack. Native iOS and Android with push notifications. A free tier with no credit card. AI incident suggestions, AI postmortem drafting, AI sales chat, and an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT. Status.io Plus is $349 a month, our Business plan with 60-second monitoring is $149.
Feature by feature
Side by side. Honest. No marketing fluff.
| Feature | LiveStatus | Status.io |
|---|---|---|
Native iOS + Android mobile app Push notifications for incidents, full incident response from your phone | ||
Free plan Status.io's cheapest paid plan is $79/mo | ||
Entry price | $19/mo (Starter) | $79/mo (Basic) |
Mid-tier price and parity | $149/mo (Business, 20 members) | $149/mo (Standard, 20 members) |
60-second uptime monitoring | Business ($149/mo) | Plus ($349/mo) |
Status automation + incident management | ||
Planned maintenance windows | ||
Subscriber count on $149 plan | Unlimited | 2,000 cap |
Custom domain + TLS | Starter ($19/mo) | Standard ($149/mo) |
SSO (SAML / OIDC) | Business ($149/mo) | Enterprise ($999+/mo) |
White-label + custom CSS | Business ($149/mo) | Plus ($349/mo) |
AI incident drafting + postmortems Draft updates, summaries, and postmortems from a prompt | ||
AI sales chat on your status page | ||
MCP server for Claude / Cursor / ChatGPT Manage incidents directly from your AI tools | ||
Slack / Teams / ChatOps | Starter ($19/mo) | Standard ($149/mo) |
SMS notifications via Twilio | Pro ($49/mo) | Standard ($149/mo) |
Audit trail | Business ($149/mo) | Enterprise ($999+/mo) |
Annual discount | Two months free (~17%) | 5% |
Migration importer from Status.io |
Three reasons teams switch
A real mobile app, not a mobile web page
Status.io is web-only in 2026. LiveStatus ships native iOS and Android apps with push notifications so on-call engineers see incidents the moment a monitor trips, and end users can subscribe to your status page from their phone instead of losing email updates in spam.
Free tier, then $19, then $49, then $149
Status.io starts at $79 a month for 500 subscribers and jumps to $349 for 60-second monitoring. LiveStatus starts free, Starter is $19, Pro is $49, and Business at $149 matches Status.io Standard on team size and features while also giving you 60-second monitoring that Status.io gates behind Plus.
AI and MCP built in, not bolted on
Every LiveStatus plan includes AI incident suggestions, AI postmortem drafting, and AI sales chat on your status page. Business customers get an MCP server so Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT can post updates, open incidents, and read your status directly. Status.io has none of this.
“But what about...”
Real concerns from teams considering the switch.
Status.io works fine for us. Why switch?
If your team does not need a mobile app, does not want a free dev environment, and is fine paying $349 a month for 60-second monitoring, stay. If any one of those is a yes, LiveStatus will save you time and money, so it is worth 30 minutes to migrate.
Is migration painful?
No. We ship a migration importer for Status.io that pulls in your components, incidents, and maintenance history. Subscriber lists come over as a CSV export from Status.io, and your subscribers get one email letting them know the status page moved, so they keep receiving updates without re-subscribing.
Do you cover the enterprise checklist?
Yes. SSO with SAML and OIDC, IP ACLs for private mode, audit trail, custom TLS certificates, white-label, custom CSS. LiveStatus Business starts that list at $149 a month. Status.io gates most of it behind Plus at $349 or Enterprise at $999 plus.
FAQ
Do you actually have a native mobile app today?
Yes. iOS on the App Store, Android on Play, with push notifications for incidents, status updates, and monitor failures. End users can also install the app to subscribe to any LiveStatus status page and receive pushes instead of email.
How does your Business plan line up with Status.io Standard?
Same team size (20 members), same subscriber headroom, same feature tier for SSO, white-label, and status automation, same price ($149). We add 60-second monitoring, unlimited subscribers, a real mobile app, AI workflows, and an MCP server.
What does the AI actually do?
Three things. AI incident suggestions watch your monitors and draft the first update for you. AI postmortem drafting turns an incident timeline into a first-pass postmortem in seconds. AI sales chat sits on your marketing site and answers prospect questions from your docs.
What is the MCP server for?
It lets Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and any MCP-capable client read and write your LiveStatus workspace. You can open an incident from your IDE, ask Claude to summarize last month's incidents, or have ChatGPT post a maintenance window without leaving the chat.
Will you get acquired and hike prices like other status page tools?
LiveStatus is bootstrapped by Leonenko Group LLC, so no VC pressure and no plans to sell. Our incentive is to keep shipping and keep customers, not to flip the company.
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