Publish incident updates and maintenance notices on a public status page.
Free Starter: 200 subscribers, 5 team members, 15 monitors with 2-minute checks and 2 on-call members. Hosted public page; no custom domain.

Developer tools
Publish a public status page on your own domain and report service incidents.
Publish a public status page on your own domain and report service incidents.
Public incident status page on a custom domain with SSL. Statuspage official docs exclude custom domains on Free; Hobby is $29/month. Phare free supports this narrow domain/page workflow. Notification delivery is not equivalent: Phare documents RSS/Atom and Slack feeds, not managed subscriber email.
No managed email-subscriber parity claimed. Private status pages, SMS/voice and extra monitoring usage require paid Scale. Hobby accounts may be deleted after 4 months of inactivity; monitors failing 48 hours may be paused.
Each comparison covers the workflow described above, rather than every paid feature.