Statuspage is $79/mo (Startup). Megaphone is a self-hosted alternative at $0.99/mo. Here's when each makes sense.
| Megaphone | Statuspage | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Self-hosted, your infra | Managed SaaS (cloud only) |
| Data location | Your server, your disk | Statuspage's cloud |
| Free tier | 3 components | Paid only |
| Pro pricing | $0.99/mo | $79/mo (Startup) |
| Dependencies | None (single binary + SQLite) | N/A (managed) |
| Setup time | ~30 seconds | Account signup |
| Dashboard | Built-in at /ui | Cloud dashboard |
| License | BSL 1.1 | Proprietary SaaS |
Megaphone is a single Go binary with embedded SQLite. Install it with one command, and you are running in under a minute. Your data stays on your server.
curl -fsSL https://stockyard.dev/megaphone/install.sh | sh
Before choosing between Megaphone and Statuspage, consider what happens when you need to leave. Statuspage exports vary in completeness — some fields, some history, some metadata may not come with you. Megaphone stores everything in a single SQLite file. Leaving means copying that file. This is not a hypothetical concern: the average team changes tools every 18 to 24 months.
Architecturally, Megaphone and Statuspage could not be more different. Statuspage runs on distributed cloud infrastructure with load balancers, managed databases, CDNs, and redundancy across availability zones. Megaphone is a single process writing to a single file on a single disk. That sounds fragile until you realize that SQLite handles more concurrent readers than most web applications will ever need, and WAL mode means reads never block writes.
The migration path from Statuspage depends on how much history you need to bring over. If you only need active records, a manual re-entry through Megaphone's dashboard might be faster than writing a migration script. If you need full history, export from Statuspage and use Megaphone's POST API to import records. Either way, the process is measured in hours, not weeks.
Single binary. Free to start. $0.99/mo for Pro.