# Instatus: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 4 judge labels across 3 categories by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/instatus

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Incident management and on-call](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/incident-management-and-on-call/index.md) | 0% | 22 | 0% | 2 |
| [Network monitoring and management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/network-monitoring-and-management/index.md) | 0% | 82 | 100% | 1 |
| [Website and synthetic monitoring](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/website-and-synthetic-monitoring/index.md) | 0% | 43 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Instatus is unique because it combines uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages in a single, flat-fee platform." (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Incidents)
- "Pulsetic or Instatus (Great Free/Cheap All-Rounders)" (Grok 4.20, Uptime monitoring)
- "Best All-in-One: Instatus" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Incidents)

## And against it

- "Cons: Limited to status pages, not full network monitoring" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Network monitoring)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Instatus, from 8 of the 9 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- instatus.com: 7 (its own site)
- incident.io: 4
- allquiet.app: 2
- bestdevops.com: 2
- betterstack.com: 2
- capterra.com: 2
- comparitech.com: 2
- guideflow.com: 2
- pagerduty.com: 2
- rootly.com: 2

### Pages cited

- https://bestdevops.com/top-10-on-call-scheduling-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison: 2
- https://incident.io/blog/incident-management-pricing-comparison-2026: 2
- https://incident.io/on-call: 2
- https://instatus.com/blog/incident-io-pricing: 2
- https://instatus.com/blog/on-call-scheduling-software: 2
- https://instatus.com/blog/small-business-network-monitoring-software: 2
- https://rootly.com/sre/choose-the-right-incident-platform-12-solutions-compared: 2
- https://softwareadvice.com/network-monitoring: 2

## In its own words

What Instatus's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Beautiful Status Page & Uptime Monitoring (https://instatus.com/)
- For: find the right plan for you (https://instatus.com/pricing)
- Price stated: $0/month (https://instatus.com/)
- Starting price: $0/month (https://instatus.com/)
- Free plan or trial: Create a free status page in seconds. (https://instatus.com/)
- Customers named: Todoist, Sketch, Stytch, Wistia, Siemens, Harvard, Graphite, Dovetail

## What it publishes

Every page instatus.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 10002 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 169 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- conference or event: 6 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- report or ebook: 7 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- comparison: 162 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 7 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- news or press: 3 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.