Billing and capabilities
Pay for the capabilities you use, and read what the account can do today
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The current Cloud builder lets you select individual features or start with the Start or Pro plan. It shows feature prices, required dependencies, page quantity and any applicable plan discount. Your dashboard remains the source of truth for the capabilities and limits active on an existing account.
An active subscription includes the features you selected, whether you started with a plan or built your own selection. A feature can be absent from an active plan. The dashboard distinguishes a feature that is not included, access that has expired, and setup that is still required.
Dashboard → Account → Billing shows what this account has, what each piece costs, the next invoice date, and the controls to change any of it. Owners and admins can change the subscription.
Plans
Free needs no subscription. Start and Pro are fixed selections of features at one monthly price, lower than the same features bought one by one.
| Plan | Free | Start | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0/mo | $10/mo | $20/mo |
| Status pages included | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Monitors | 15 HTTP, TCP or DNS | 50 | 100 |
| Checked as often as | every 2 minutes | every minute | every minute |
| Email subscribers | None | 1,000 | 10,000 |
| Features | Public status page Monitoring and automatic detection Slack alerts | Public status page Incident management Monitoring and automatic detection Branding and custom domain Subscriber updates Badges, feeds, and embeds Outbound webhooks Slack alerts Team roles | Public status page Incident management Monitoring and automatic detection Branding and custom domain Subscriber updates Badges, feeds, and embeds Outbound webhooks Slack alerts Team roles Multilingual status pages Write API Customer audit log Status page analytics Outage continuity |
No plan includes Heartbeat monitors, Internal analytics, Database Health, External event storage and Daily event export. Add any of them to a plan at its own price, listed below. WhatsApp alerts is coming soon and cannot be bought yet.
The trial
A new account starts a 14-day trial of released Cloud features, with no card required. Features that are coming soon are excluded. The dashboard shows the end date. During the trial a few allowances are smaller than a paid account's, such as the number of confirmed subscribers, so a trial cannot be used as a free tier. When it ends, the account keeps the features you bought. Without a paid subscription, Free continues fifteen HTTP, TCP or DNS monitors checked as often as every two minutes, with email alerts, one Slack channel and one public page on your InBrief subdomain. That page lists up to fifteen monitors and 30 days of history. The monitors Free keeps running always appear, and stopped ones fill any remaining places without a current status. Extra monitors, additional pages and paid features stop running; their configuration remains available for an upgrade. A custom-domain connection stops serving the page, while its settings are retained.
What each capability costs
New subscriptions use the 8 September 2026 catalogue: the status-page base is $1 multiplied by the page factor, and Monitoring includes 50 monitors for $3 before page scaling or a plan discount, on existing subscriptions as well as new ones. Pro includes its listed 100-monitor allowance. Existing subscriptions keep the catalogue version and allowances they purchased, including the 5 September catalogue and the earlier 25-monitor allowance. Changes to an existing subscription use its original catalogue. A confirmed plan change shows its new total before it takes effect; publishing a catalogue does not reprice existing subscriptions.
Prices are monthly. Most page-scoped features use the page multiplier below; Database Health uses the paid page quantity directly. Account-scoped features are charged once. Some capabilities need a foundation: a public status page needs incidents or monitoring to have something to show, branding needs a page to brand. Choosing a capability adds what it depends on automatically, so you cannot buy a feature that has nothing to attach to.
Incident communication
| Capability | What it enables | Depends on | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public status page | Current status, uptime history and a subscribe box. | Requires incident management or monitoring and automatic detection | $1/mo |
| Incident management | Open an incident, post updates and schedule maintenance. | Works independently | $3/mo |
| Monitoring and automatic detection | We check your endpoints, alert you and raise incidents. | Optional automation | $3/mo |
| Heartbeat monitors | Cron jobs and pipelines check in; a missed deadline becomes an incident signal. | Works independently | $2/mo |
| Outage continuity | A separately hosted page that stays up when your site is down. | Works independently | $3/mo |
Customer communication
| Capability | What it enables | Depends on | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branding and custom domain | Serve the page on your own domain with your own branding. | Requires public status page | $2/mo |
| Subscriber updates | Email, Discord, Microsoft Teams and Telegram updates for your subscribers. | Requires incident management | $2/mo |
| Multilingual status pages | Publish customer communication in the languages your audience needs. | Requires public status page | $2/mo |
| Outbound webhooks | Signed webhooks with retries and a delivery log. | Requires incident management | $1/mo |
| Badges, feeds, and embeds | Status badges, feeds, named embeds and a website widget. | Requires public status page | $1/mo |
Automation, API, and teams
| Capability | What it enables | Depends on | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slack alerts | Monitor and certificate alerts delivered to Slack. | Requires monitoring and automatic detection | $1/mo |
| Write API | Scoped keys for incident creation and automation. | Requires incident management | $2/mo |
| Team roles | Invite colleagues as admins, operators or viewers. | Works independently | $2/mo |
| Customer audit log | Read the security audit stream for your account. | Works independently | $2/mo |
Operational event data
| Capability | What it enables | Depends on | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Status page analytics | Aggregate visitor and subscription trends for your public page. | Requires public status page | $2/mo |
| Internal analytics | See error trends and silent services from your own event reports. | Analytics foundation | $7/account/mo |
| Database Health | Private database checks and application pool diagnostics. | Per status page; no Internal analytics purchase required | $3/paid page/mo |
| External event storage | Store reported operational events in infrastructure you control. | Requires internal analytics | $12/mo |
| Daily event export | Resumable export to a configured destination. | Requires internal analytics | $2/mo |
Plans are editable
Start and Pro select a set of features. You can add or remove features afterwards. The calculator applies the plan discount when the selection contains the plan's required features and the page quantity is within its included allowance. Additional features are priced separately. Removing a required feature or exceeding the included page quantity can remove the discount, so review the new total before confirming a change.
More than one status page
Most page-scoped features use the factor below. Database Health instead costs $3 per paid status page per month, multiplied by the selected paid page quantity. Account-scoped features are charged once. Review the selected page quantity and any applicable plan discount before checkout.
| Status pages | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiplier on most page-scoped features | ×1 | ×1.9 | ×2.5 | ×3 | ×3.5 |
See Run more than one status page for what a page owns and how pages are created and deleted.
Paying
Checkout and invoices are handled by Paddle, our merchant of record, which also collects the tax that applies where you are. InBrief never sees or stores your card. Invoices and receipts are in the Paddle portal linked from the Billing screen.
Changing and cancelling
Adding a capability takes effect immediately and is charged pro rata. Removing one takes effect at the end of the current period; the screen shows the date. Cancelling the subscription works the same way: the account keeps its selected features until the period ends, and you can undo the cancellation from the same screen until then.
When a subscription has lapsed, nothing you wrote is deleted. Monitoring continues within the Free allowance. The custom domain stops serving and the InBrief address takes over, and the dashboard becomes read-only for the parts that need a capability you no longer have. Buying again picks up where you left off. Deleting the account is a separate, explicit action under Account → General, and that one does remove everything.
Where to go next
Depending on what you want to do: communicate incidents, add automatic detection, or automate incident publishing.