StatusPulse vs Hyperping
Hyperping is one of our favourite peers in the monitoring space — a clean, developer-focused indie SaaS out of France with one of the best-designed public status pages on the market. We respect their craft. Where we differ: StatusPulse ships more probe types (gRPC, WebSocket, databases, SMTP/IMAP round-trip), bundles AI incident summaries, and lets you choose US or EU hosting per tenant.
Prices and feature lists last verified 2026-05-22. Both vendors iterate quickly — check both pricing pages before deciding.
At a glance
11 vs ~6
Probe types built in
StatusPulse: HTTP, gRPC Health, WebSocket, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Redis, DNS, SSL, Domain expiry, SMTP/IMAP round-trip. Hyperping covers HTTP, Ping, Port, Cron, DNS, SSL — solid for the common cases, no native gRPC, WebSocket, database or email probes.
Similar pricing
Pro at $19/mo, either way
StatusPulse Pro is $19/mo. Hyperping's comparable tier lands at ~$19/mo on the entry paid plan. This isn't a "we're cheaper" page — the call is about what's inside the bundle at that price.
US or EU
Hosting region choice
StatusPulse tenants are provisioned in either US or EU Azure regions — you choose at signup. Hyperping is EU-hosted only, which is a feature for some teams and a constraint for others.
Pricing for a typical team
A team running ~15-30 probes + a public status page on a custom domain, email + Slack alerts, PDF reports. Monthly pricing for clarity — both vendors offer annual discounts.
| StatusPulse | Hyperping | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 5 probes, 1 status page | Free trial only |
| Entry paid | Starter $5 / mo | ~$19 / mo |
| Team paid | Pro $19 / mo | ~$49 / mo |
| Custom domain + branding | Pro+ included | Paid plans included |
| AI incident summaries | Pro+ included | Not yet |
| Anomaly forecast (ML) | Business included | No |
| Hosting region choice | US or EU per tenant | EU only |
The starter numbers look close. The real differences sit in what probes ship with the bundle and whether AI summaries / anomaly forecasts are included or not. If your stack is pure HTTP, both tools will serve you well — the deeper your protocol mix, the more the heavier comparison matters.
Feature matrix
| Feature | StatusPulse | Hyperping |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | ||
| HTTP / HTTPS probes | Free+ | Yes |
| Ping (ICMP) | Starter+ (IPv4 + IPv6) | Yes |
| TCP port | Starter+ | Yes |
| Keyword / body-contains | Free+ (in HTTP probe) | Yes |
| Heartbeat / cron probe | Starter+ | Yes (Cron Monitoring) |
| SSL certificate expiry | Free+ | Yes |
| DNS record probe | Starter+ (incl. assertion) | Yes |
| Domain expiry (WHOIS/RDAP) | Starter+ | No |
| gRPC Health probes | Pro+ (Check + Watch, mTLS) | No |
| WebSocket probes | Pro+ (HTTP/1.1 + HTTP/2) | No |
| Database (Postgres / MySQL / SQL Server / Redis) | Business (custom probe queries) | No |
| SMTP/IMAP round-trip | Pro+ (3 modes) | No |
| Anomaly forecast (ML) | Business | No |
| Multi-region probe locations | Business — EU + US + APAC + SA, quorum rules | Yes (EU regions) |
| Status page | ||
| Public status page | Yes (Free+) | Yes (paid) |
| Custom domain + auto HTTPS | Pro+ included | Paid plans |
| Custom branding (logo, colours, font) | Pro+ included | Yes |
| Subscribers (Email, Slack, Teams, SMS, Webhook) | All five channels; public sign-up + double opt-in | Email only |
| RSS / Atom / iCal feeds | Yes | Yes (RSS) |
| Status badge (SVG + shields.io JSON) | Free+ | Yes |
| Embeddable widget + oEmbed | Free+ (zero-asset iframe) | No |
| Component groups | Free+ (flat groups, SortOrder) | No |
| Incidents | ||
| Auto-incident from probe transitions | Yes | Yes |
| Manual updates / post-mortems | Yes | Yes |
| AI-drafted incident summaries | Pro+ | Not yet |
| Scheduled maintenance windows | Yes | Yes |
| Incident metrics dashboard (MTTR, time-to-first-update) | Free+ (30/90/365-day windows) | No |
| Incident CSV export (metadata + components + timeline + SLO) | Starter+ (RFC 4180-escaped) | No |
| Alerting | ||
| Email alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Slack / Discord | Yes (Slack + Teams) | Yes (Slack + Discord) |
| SMS alerts | Pay-per-use (country-routed) | Yes |
| Generic webhook (HMAC-signed + retry) | Pro+ | Yes (basic) |
| Custom request headers per webhook | Pro+ (PagerDuty / Opsgenie ready) | Limited |
| On-call rotation builder | Pro+ (weekly rotation + escalation policies) | Basic team alerting |
| Custom Reply-To on alert emails | Business (route Reply to support@your-co) | No |
| Reports & analytics | ||
| PDF reports (uptime / SLA) | Yes (4 cadences, 14 sections) | Basic exports |
| AI executive summary | Business | No |
| Scheduled report delivery | Yes | No |
| SLO / error-budget impact per incident | Pro+ | No |
| Anomaly-driven incident proposals | Business | No |
| Internal-only incidents | Free+ | No |
| Severity escalation (auto-page on stale incident) | Pro+ | No |
| Public trust score panel (MTTR / postmortem rate) | Free+ | No |
| Compliance & hosting | ||
| EU hosting option | Yes (per tenant) | EU-only (a feature for EU buyers) |
| US hosting option | Yes (per tenant) | No |
| GDPR-friendly DPA | Yes | Yes (see our GDPR uptime monitoring guide) |
| SOC 2 report | In progress | Not advertised |
| Single sign-on (SAML) | Phase B (planned) | Not advertised |
| Audit log of admin actions | Yes (90-day retention) | Not advertised |
| Developer / API & compliance | ||
| Public read API (status / incidents / probes) | Free+ | Limited |
| Audit log API export (cursor-paginated) | Business | No |
| SSO domain lock (Microsoft + Google work accounts) | Business | No |
| White-label (hide "Powered by" + custom footer) | Business | Limited |
Which one is right for you?
Pick Hyperping if…
- You love their UX and the basics cover your stack. Hyperping has one of the cleanest public status pages in the category — it earned its reputation.
- EU-only hosting is a positive constraint. If your buyer or DPA wants a single answer ("everything is in the EU, full stop"), Hyperping's posture is simpler to defend than a multi-region vendor's.
- Your monitoring needs are pure HTTP + Ping + Cron + DNS + SSL. If you don't need to probe a database, a gRPC service, a WebSocket session or a mail round-trip, Hyperping's bundle is well-shaped for you.
- You appreciate indie-hacker support. The Hyperping team responds quickly and ships often. Different flavour to ours, but we get it — we're indie too.
Pick StatusPulse if…
- You need protocol-level probes for gRPC Health services, databases (Postgres / MySQL / SQL Server / Redis), WebSocket sessions or SMTP/IMAP delivery round-trips. Hyperping doesn't have these as first-class types.
- You want AI summaries baked in — both for live incidents and for executive sections of PDF reports. Ours land at the Pro tier; Hyperping doesn't ship them yet.
- You want the choice of US or EU hosting per tenant — typically because you have customers on both sides of the Atlantic and want low-latency probing without cross-region replication.
- You're scaling into Business-tier needs — multi-region quorum probing, anomaly forecasting, audit log, and (Phase B) SAML SSO. The path is in the same bundle, not a "talk to sales" wall.
- You like deeper reports. Our PDF reports run 4 cadences and 14 sections including executive summary, SLA breakdowns and provider attribution.
Switching from Hyperping
Migrations from Hyperping tend to be quick because both tools share a modern, dev-focused mental model. Most teams run both for a week:
- Start on the free plan. Recreate your 5 most important monitors and pick your hosting region (US or EU). Don't touch your Hyperping setup.
- Upgrade the probes Hyperping couldn't reach. Replace any HTTP-checks-against-Postgres with a real Database probe; any TCP-port-against-gRPC with a real gRPC Health probe; any SMTP-port checks with a full mail round-trip probe.
- Wire alerts into the same Slack channel Hyperping uses. For a week or two you'll get duplicate alerts — a useful sanity check that StatusPulse catches what Hyperping catches (and usually a few things it doesn't).
- Publish a parallel status page on a subdomain and show it to a couple of key customers for feedback. Apply your brand colours and logo in our Pro-tier branding tab.
- Flip the public DNS when confident. Cancel the Hyperping renewal. Browse more reading on our guides page, or see how we compare against the bigger players in vs Statuspage.io.
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