Comparison

OutageDeck vs IsDown vs StatusGator

All three tools watch your vendors' status pages so your team hears about outages without refreshing tabs. They differ on catalog size, how alerts are priced, and what is public versus behind an account. The short version: IsDown has the biggest catalog and the earliest signals, StatusGator has the longest track record and shareable boards, and OutageDeck keeps a genuinely usable free tier, flat pricing, and an open API.

OutageDeck maintains this page, so read it as a vendor's comparison. Every competitor number was taken from the linked official pricing pages as of August 2026, and they are worth re-checking before you decide.

Side by side

Feature	OutageDeck	IsDown	StatusGator
Vendors tracked	180 curated major vendors, plus any Statuspage or Instatus feed you add yourself	6,000+ services	3,600+ services
Data sources	Official status feeds only, checked every ~10 minutes	Official status pages plus crowdsourced problem reports	Official status pages plus its own site checks
Free tier	Email alerts for 5 providers, no notification cap, full public site and API	14-day trial (no permanent free plan)	3 monitors, 10 notifications per month
Entry paid plan	$19/mo, unlimited providers per alert	$27/mo for 15 monitors	$79/mo for 25 monitors
Watching 150 vendors	$19/mo (providers are never counted)	$179/mo (Business, 150 monitors)	$299/mo (Corporate, 150 monitors)
Alert channels	Email, Slack, Teams, Discord, webhooks	Email, Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Discord; PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog and more on higher tiers	Email, Slack, Teams, SMS, and 15+ integrations
Public JSON API without an account	Yes: anonymous rate-limited, keyed up to 20,000 req/h	No, account required	No, account required
Public uptime history	90-day independent uptime strips on every provider page	Uptime data inside the product	Historical data by plan (1 to 24 months)
Hosted status boards / private pages	Not yet; public pages, badges, and RSS instead	Yes: public and private status pages	Yes: aggregated boards and status pages
Detection before the vendor acknowledges	No. The official feed is the trigger, so no crowd noise	Yes: crowdsourced early signals	Sometimes: its own site checks can flag issues early
Team features	Single account per email	Multiple admin users by plan	1 admin user on Free and Starter, 3 on Team, 10 on Corporate; SSO from the free plan

Prices are monthly billing as of August 2026; annual billing is cheaper on all three. Sources: IsDown pricing, StatusGator plans, and OutageDeck pricing.

Where OutageDeck wins

The free tier is operational, not a demo: real-time email alerts for 5 providers with no monthly notification cap.
Flat pricing: $19/mo covers unlimited providers, because vendors you watch are never counted as "monitors".
Everything is public by default: 180 provider pages with independent uptime history, an anonymous JSON API, badges, and RSS. No login to check status.
Official-source provenance: alerts fire on the vendor's own feed, so there are no crowd-noise false positives.

Where IsDown wins

Catalog breadth: 6,000+ services, including long tail.
Crowdsourced signals can flag outages before the vendor acknowledges them, sometimes hours before.
Deep incident-tooling integrations (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog, ServiceNow) and hosted status pages.
Backed by UptimeRobot since its acquisition.

Where StatusGator wins

A decade of history in the category and 3,600+ services.
Aggregated status boards designed for sharing with a whole org, a natural fit for IT departments and education.
Monitors your own websites alongside vendors on one board.
A permanent free plan exists (3 monitors).

The honest bottom line

If your dependency list is mostly major cloud and SaaS vendors (names like AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, and OpenAI), OutageDeck covers it free or at $19/mo where per-monitor tools charge $79 to $299 per month, and you get an open API on top. Paid plans can also add any vendor the 180-provider catalog misses, as long as that vendor publishes a Statuspage or Instatus feed. If you depend on vendors that publish neither, or you want crowdsourced detection and ITSM integrations, IsDown earns its price. If the goal is a shared vendor status board for a whole organization, StatusGator was built for exactly that. Try the provider directory first; if your stack is on it, the decision usually makes itself.

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Free email alerts for the handful of vendors you cannot afford to miss. No card, live in about a minute. Paid plans add Slack, Teams, Discord, and webhook delivery across your whole stack, plus higher API quotas.

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