Hund.io vs. StatusGator
A detailed comparison of features, pricing, and the real-world value for teams who take reliability seriously.
The Bottom Line
If your priority is monitoring and communicating the health of your services, Hund.io is purpose-built for that need. If your main concern is tracking outages in the third-party SaaS tools you depend on, StatusGator is specialized for that niche.
For teams that need a status page to represent their reliability, Hund.io delivers a complete incident communication toolkit with automation, monitoring, and governance features. StatusGator instead serves best as a status aggregation dashboard for monitoring external vendors.
At a Glance
| Core Difference | Hund.io: Communicating Your Status | StatusGator: Monitoring Vendor Status |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Use Case | A first party platform to communicate your own service’s reliability. | A third party aggregator to monitor the status of your SaaS vendors. |
| Incident Management | Full Lifecycle: An end-to-end system for managing your own incidents. | Information Feed: Aggregates incident data from other status pages. |
| Developer Experience | Automation-focused, with a comprehensive API and Terraform provider. | Read-only, with a limited API designed for data consumption. |
| Monitoring Focus | Internal: Deep monitoring of your own infrastructure and services. | External: Broad monitoring of thousands of third-party cloud services. |
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Understanding the Landscape
StatusGator occupies a unique position in the market as a status page aggregator, helping teams track the health of over 6,000 services. This is useful for companies that quickly need to identify whether an issue stems from their stack or a third-party library.
Hund.io, on the other hand, is a specialized incident communication platform. Our focus is on giving organizations purpose-built tools to run their own status pages, complete with automation, monitoring, and governance.
Deep-Dive Comparison: The Core Philosophies
Purpose: Status Pages vs Aggregated Dashboards
StatusGator’s strength is aggregating official status feeds from providers like AWS, Slack, and Microsoft 365. This is useful for IT teams or MSPs who need a consolidated dashboard of vendor reliability. Although it does not intend to act as a primary status page for your services.
Every feature of Hund.io, from flexible incident lifecycles to watchdog-powered monitoring, centers on giving you a professional-grade status page to communicate transparently with your users. The business impact: your customers see a reliable, branded source of truth during incidents, not a generic feed.
Monitoring and Automation Depth
StatusGator provides monitoring through a limited set of options: HTTP, ping, and basic checks at one-minute intervals, with five global points of presence. Options are constrained, and no support exists for higher-frequency monitoring or advanced consensus logic.
Hund.io provides a more robust, integrated global monitoring network with ten points of presence, including IPv6 support. Our native monitoring allows for deeply configurable ICMP, HTTP, DNS, TCP, and UDP checks out-of-the-box. More importantly, Hund.io features an API-first design and features a comprehensive, official Terraform provider. This means you can manage your status page setup, from components to the monitoring logic that powers them, as code.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Hund | StatusGator |
|---|---|---|
| Core Status Page Features | ||
| Multiple Status Pages | ($) | |
| Built-in Monitoring Hund.io has 10 PoPs; StatusGator has five | ||
| Free Custom Domain | ||
| Free Custom CSS/HTML/JS | ||
| Page Inheritance | ||
| Live Status Widget StatusGator’s widget isn’t real time | ||
| Incident Management and Workflow | ||
| Scheduled Maintenance | ||
| Custom Statuses | ||
| Postmortems | ||
| Information Bulletins | ||
| Alerting Levels | ||
| On-Call Escalations and Scheduling | (Planned) | |
| Automation and Developer Experience | ||
| Comprehensive API StatusGator’s API is read-only and limited in functionality | ||
| Official Terraform Provider | ||
| “Dead Man’s Switch” Webhook | ||
| High Frequency Monitoring | ($) | |
| Transaction Monitoring | (Planned) | |
| Enterprise and Governance | ||
| SLA | (99.9%+) | |
| Granular RBAC StatusGator has two predefined roles | ||
| Audit Logs | ||
| Private Pages | ($) | ($) |
| Granular Privacy Included in Hund’s Privacy Control upgrade | ||
| One-Click Secure Access Included in Hund’s Privacy Control upgrade | ||
| SSO (SAML/OIDC) | ($) | |
| Secure Page Embedding Hund’s embed upgrade features host-source whitelisting | ($) | |
| Granular Uptime Reporting | ||
| Curated Subscriptions | ||
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Pricing and Value Analysis
The pricing models for Hund.io and StatusGator reflect their different approaches. StatusGator uses traditional plan-based pricing, while Hund.io uses a transparent, usage-based model. Evaluating StatusGator pricing against Hund.io requires considering your unique needs.
Hund.io Pricing Highlights:
- Base page: $29/month (20 components included)
- Component packs: from $29/month per 20
- Private Pages: $70/month add-on
- SSO: $100/month account-wide add-on
- Audit logs: included at no extra cost
StatusGator Pricing Highlights (Business Plans):
- Starter: $79/month, 25 monitors, 1 board, 1 user
- Team: $149/month, 75 monitors, 3 boards, 3 users
- Corporate: $299/month, 150 monitors, 5 boards, 10 users
- Enterprise: Contact for pricing, 200+ monitors, 10+ boards, 20+ users
- Hund.io: $87 (3 pages) + $210 (Privacy Controls) = $297/month
- StatusGator: Team Plan = $149/month
While StatusGator’s plan is numerically lower for this arrangement, a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis shows a different picture of value. Hund.io’s investment provides three independent status pages with advanced incident management, while providing rich inheritance features. This includes a comprehensive API, an official Terraform provider for automation, custom statuses, and a formal SLA. The cost reflects a strategic tool designed to reduce operational expense and minimize the risk of human error, rather than a status page primarily focused on monitoring third-party services.
The Final Verdict
Choose StatusGator if…
Your organization’s primary need is to track outages in your third-party SaaS vendors. Teams that depend on a large stack of external tools may benefit from StatusGator’s aggregation model.
Choose Hund if…
You want an advanced status page that offers comprehensive incident management, supports infrastructure-as-code, and provides granular governance controls. For organizations that need to scale incident workflows without scaling operational effort, Hund.io is purpose-built to be the complete toolkit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use Hund.io to monitor my vendors like AWS or Slack?
Yes. You can configure a Hund.io component to monitor any public endpoint, including the status page or API of a third-party service. However, Hund.io doesn’t function as an aggregator. Instead, you would have to establish monitoring for each vendor you require, rather than accessing a pre-built library.
Does Hund.io have an SLA?
Yes, Hund.io provides a 99.9% Monthly Uptime SLA for all paying customers, and 99.95% on the Enterprise tier.
Does StatusGator support custom status workflows?
No, StatusGator uses fixed statuses. Hund.io supports fully custom statuses, including maintenance, bulletins, postmortems, and retrospective issues.
This comparison is based on publicly available information as of September 2025. Features, pricing, and product capabilities may change over time. While we aim to ensure accuracy, readers should confirm the latest details directly with each vendor. All product names and logos are the property of their respective owners.
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