Pointsman vs Statusmill
Statusmill makes status pages. Pointsman also runs the checks behind them.
Pointsman
Statusmill
Check interval
Every minute
No checks included
Regions
6
None
Status pages
Unlimited
Unlimited
On-call schedules
Included
Not included
Price at 100 monitors
$39 a month
$59 a month
Incident timeline
Included
Manual
Postmortem drafts
Included
Manual
Escalation rules
Included
Not included
Alert channels
Phone, SMS, Slack, email
Free trial
14 days
30 days
Setup time
Minutes
Minutes
In detail
The short version
Statusmill makes status pages and leaves the monitoring to you. Pointsman runs the checks too, so the page updates itself the moment something fails.
Where Statusmill is stronger
More page themes and fine design control
Longer free trial
Where Pointsman is stronger
Monitoring and paging in the same product
Pages that update from your monitors
One bill
Moving over
Recreate your service groups, move your domain across and import subscribers from a CSV. Subscribers do not need to do anything.
Pick the other one if
You already monitor elsewhere and only need the public page.
Pick Pointsman if
You would rather have monitoring and the page in one place.
