Two Tools Solving Different Problems
Sorry makes simple, clean status pages. You sign up, add your components, and publish a status page in a few minutes. It supports incidents, notices, webhooks, and Slack integration. The pricing is straightforward -- free to $30/month -- and the product does exactly what it says on the tin.
Alert24 is a different kind of tool. It combines uptime monitoring, on-call scheduling and escalation, multi-channel alerting, and public status pages into a single platform. Instead of pairing Sorry with a separate monitoring tool and a separate incident management tool, you get one product that handles detection, response, and customer communication.
This post is an honest comparison. Sorry is the right choice for some teams. Alert24 is the right choice for others. We will be straightforward about where each one wins.
Pricing
Sorry pricing:
| Plan | Price | Key Features |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 1 status page, basic features |
| Starter | ~$10/mo | Custom domain, more components |
| Growth | ~$20/mo | Multiple pages, more subscribers |
| Premium | $30/mo | Full feature set, priority support |
Alert24 uses unit-based pricing. Each unit costs $18/month and includes 15 monitoring checks, a status page, and a team member. A free tier is available with 5 monitors and 1 team member.
If all you need is a status page, Sorry at $30/month or less is clearly cheaper than Alert24. There is no way around that. But if you also need monitoring and incident management, the total cost picture changes:
| Tool | Cost (typical) |
|---|---|
| Sorry (Premium) | $30/mo |
| UptimeRobot or Pingdom (monitoring) | $15-60/mo |
| PagerDuty or Opsgenie (incident management) | $100-210/mo |
| Total | $145-300/mo |
With Alert24, a 5-person team pays $90/month for monitoring, incident management, and status pages combined. A 10-person team pays $180/month.
The honest take: If you only need a status page, Sorry at $30/month or less is the more affordable option. Alert24's cost advantage only shows up when you factor in the monitoring and incident management tools you would need alongside Sorry to build a complete incident response workflow.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Alert24 | Sorry |
|---|---|---|
| Status pages | Built-in, auto-updating from monitoring data | Dedicated product, simple and clean |
| Incidents | Full lifecycle: detection, escalation, resolution, postmortem | Manual creation, public-facing updates |
| Notices | Scheduled maintenance windows | Built-in notices feature |
| Custom domain | Yes | Yes (paid plans) |
| Subscriber notifications | Email, SMS, Slack, webhook | Email, webhook |
| Webhook support | Yes, for integrations and custom workflows | Yes, inbound and outbound |
| Slack integration | Notifications + acknowledge/resolve from Slack | Status page notifications to Slack |
| Teams/Google Chat | Notifications + acknowledge/resolve | Not available |
| Uptime monitoring | Built-in: HTTP, DNS, SSL, TCP checks | Not included -- requires separate tool |
| On-call scheduling | Built-in: rotations, overrides, escalation | Not included -- requires separate tool |
| Multi-channel alerting | Email, SMS, voice, Slack/Teams/Google Chat | Not applicable (not an alerting tool) |
| Third-party dependency monitoring | 2,000+ services tracked | Not included |
| Auto-updating status pages | Yes -- monitors trigger status changes automatically | No -- manual updates or API |
| Post-incident reviews | Built-in postmortem workflows with action items | Not included |
| SLA tracking | Built-in with breach alerts | Not included |
| Setup time | ~10 minutes for monitoring + status page | Minutes for a status page |
| Pricing | $18/unit/month (usage-based) | Free-$30/month (plan-based) |
Where Sorry Wins
Simplicity. Sorry is one of the simplest status page tools available. Sign up, add your components, publish. There is no monitoring configuration, no escalation policy to define, no on-call schedule to set up. If you just need a status page live quickly, Sorry gets you there faster than almost anything else.
Price for status pages only. At free to $30/month, Sorry is one of the most affordable hosted status page options on the market. If a status page is the only thing you need, paying $18/month per unit for Alert24 means paying for monitoring and incident management capabilities you may not use. Sorry lets you pay for exactly what you need and nothing more.
Free tier. Sorry offers a genuinely usable free plan. For a side project or early-stage startup that needs a basic public status page without any cost, Sorry's free tier is a real option.
Clean, focused design. Sorry's pages are clean and well-designed. The product does not try to do everything -- it does status pages and does them well. There is something to be said for a tool that stays focused on its core purpose.
Great for small teams with simple needs. If you are a small team, you already know when your service is down (your users tell you), and you just need a place to post updates, Sorry handles that use case perfectly. You do not need a monitoring platform for that.
Where Alert24 Wins
Built-in monitoring. Alert24 includes HTTP, DNS, SSL, and TCP monitoring. When a check fails, it creates an incident and triggers escalation automatically. With Sorry, you need a separate monitoring tool to detect problems before you can update your status page.
Auto-updating status pages. This is the core architectural difference. Alert24's status pages update automatically when monitoring detects an issue. A service goes down, the status page reflects it, subscribers get notified -- without anyone manually creating an incident. With Sorry, someone on your team needs to log in and create an incident, or you need to build an integration to do it via the API.
Third-party dependency monitoring. Alert24 monitors 2,000+ third-party services -- AWS, Stripe, Cloudflare, GitHub, and more -- and alerts you when a dependency has issues. If your outage is caused by an upstream provider, Alert24 tells you before your team spends 30 minutes debugging the wrong thing. Sorry does not track external dependencies.
Complete incident management. Alert24 includes on-call scheduling, escalation policies, multi-channel alerting (SMS, voice, email, Slack, Teams, Google Chat with acknowledge/resolve support), severity levels, incident timelines, and postmortem workflows with action items and metrics. Sorry shows the customer-facing side of an incident but does not help you manage the internal response.
Lower total cost for teams that need the full stack. If you need monitoring plus incident management plus a status page, buying Sorry plus a monitoring tool plus PagerDuty or Opsgenie costs $145-300/month. Alert24 covers all three for $90/month (5-person team) or $180/month (10-person team).
One platform, no integration gaps. When monitoring, incident management, and status pages live in the same tool, there is nothing to wire together and nothing to break. With Sorry, you need to integrate your monitoring tool with Sorry (via webhooks or API) and separately integrate your monitoring tool with your incident management tool. That is two integration points to maintain.
Post-incident reviews and SLA tracking. Alert24 includes postmortem workflows and SLA breach tracking. After an incident resolves, you can run a structured review, assign action items, and track SLA compliance -- all within the same platform. These capabilities are outside the scope of what Sorry offers.
Where Alert24 Falls Short
More expensive if you only need a status page. If a hosted status page is all you need, Alert24 is overkill. Sorry at $30/month or less gives you a status page without paying for monitoring and incident management features you will not use. There is no way to spin this -- if status pages are your only requirement, Sorry is the cheaper option.
More complex setup. Sorry gets a status page live in minutes. Alert24 asks you to configure monitors, set up escalation policies, define on-call schedules, and then create a status page. That is more powerful, but it is also more work upfront. If you just want a status page and nothing else, the extra configuration is unnecessary overhead.
More tool than some teams need. Not every team needs monitoring, on-call rotation, and incident management. Some teams have five people, know when things break, and just need a clean page to tell customers what is happening. Sorry is purpose-built for that use case. Alert24 is purpose-built for teams that have outgrown that workflow.
Who Should Choose Sorry
- Teams that only need a status page. If you already have monitoring and alerting sorted out (or do not need them), and you just want a clean, simple page to communicate with customers, Sorry does that well at a great price.
- Small teams and side projects. If you are a solo developer or a small team with a straightforward service, Sorry's free or low-cost plans get you a professional status page without complexity.
- Budget-conscious teams with simple needs. At free to $30/month, Sorry is one of the cheapest ways to get a hosted status page. If budget is the primary constraint and you do not need monitoring or incident management, Sorry is hard to beat.
- Teams that value simplicity above all else. If you want the fastest path from zero to a live status page with the fewest decisions to make, Sorry is built for that.
Who Should Choose Alert24
- Teams that need monitoring and status pages together. If you want your status page to automatically reflect the actual state of your services based on real monitoring data, Alert24 connects those directly.
- Growing teams replacing a multi-tool stack. If you are currently paying for a monitoring tool plus an incident management tool plus a status page tool, Alert24 consolidates all three at a lower total cost.
- Teams building an on-call practice. If you need on-call scheduling, escalation policies, and multi-channel alerting alongside your status page, Alert24 includes all of that. Sorry does not.
- Teams that want dependency monitoring. If knowing that AWS or Stripe is down before your team debugs for 30 minutes matters to you, Alert24's third-party monitoring is something no status page tool offers.
- Teams that want postmortem workflows. If you want structured post-incident reviews with action items and metrics tied to your incidents, Alert24 includes that out of the box.
The Bottom Line
Sorry is a great product for what it does. It makes simple, clean status pages at a price that is hard to argue with. If a status page is the main thing you need, Sorry at free to $30/month is one of the best options available. We are not going to pretend otherwise.
Alert24 is the better choice for teams that need more than a status page. If you want monitoring that detects problems automatically, on-call scheduling that pages the right person, incident management that tracks the full response lifecycle, postmortem workflows that drive improvement, and a status page that updates itself from real data -- Alert24 bundles all of that into a single platform at a lower total cost than buying separate tools.
The question is simple: do you need a status page, or do you need an incident response platform that includes a status page? If it is just a status page, Sorry is a solid choice. If it is the full stack, Alert24 saves you money and complexity.
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