Instatus was the only status page tool that ChatGPT and Gemini named in all six of our buyer questions, a clean 6 of 6. Better Stack came second, named in 5 of 6 answers. We put the six questions a real buyer actually types when shopping for a status page to both assistants, gave each one live web search, and recorded every product named and every source domain behind it. This page is that count, with nothing added.
Four products tied for third at 4 of 6 answers each: Atlassian Statuspage, Hyperping, OpenStatus and Status.io. That is the true shape of AI recommendation in this category: one lock at the top, one near-lock, then a four-way pileup where the two assistants stop agreeing. Below that, Gatus and Uptime Kuma each landed 3 of 6, while Grafana and UptimeRobot each managed 2 of 6.
Across the six answers, ChatGPT and Gemini named 16 different products in total. Only two of them, Instatus and Better Stack, appeared in more than four answers. Eight of the 16 were named just once or twice. If you sell in this category and you are not one of the top two, an AI shopper is about as likely to hear a name you have never tracked as to hear yours.
The shortlist changes when you change one word
The most useful thing in this data is how far the shortlist moved when we changed a single word in the question. The bare query, "best status page software," returned eight names: Atlassian Statuspage, Better Stack, Instatus, Status.io, OpenStatus, Hyperping, Grafana and UptimeRobot. Ask instead for "best free status page software" and three of those (Hyperping, Grafana and UptimeRobot) drop out, and three self-hosted open-source names take their place: Cachet, Uptime Kuma and Gatus.
"Most affordable status page software" produced a different list again, and a shorter one: six names, of which only two (Instatus and OpenStatus) also showed up in the free query. This is the fan-out that catches vendors out. "Free" and "affordable" sound like the same shopper to a human, but the two assistants treated them as different questions. Free pulled in open-source you host yourself. Affordable pulled in cheap paid plans: Hyperping, UptimeRobot, Pulsetic and FlareWarden.
Six products in the whole run appeared in exactly one of the six answers, and which answer they landed in tells you their entire positioning. Pulsetic and FlareWarden were named only for "most affordable." Cachet was named only for "best free." And "best status page software for small teams" was the only place ilert, incident.io and PagerDuty appeared, the three names an assistant reaches for when it hears "team" and starts thinking about on-call and incident response rather than a public status page.
The lesson for a marketer here is direct. There is no single "best status page software" answer to win. There are at least three, "best," "free" and "affordable," and they barely overlap. A tool that ranks 4 of 6 overall can still be completely absent from the one query your buyer actually asks.
The source map: Reddit and GitHub, no G2
Four domains fed all six answers: reddit.com, github.com, augmentcode.com and hyperping.com. That is this category's AI visibility in one line. A community forum, a code host, one independent site and one vendor's blog sat behind every answer we got. The rest of the source list is roundups and one-off mentions: instatus.com in 5 of 6, openstatus.dev and status.io in 4 each, atlassian.com and uptimerobot.com in 2 each, then allquiet.app, cachethq.io, guideflow.com, medium.com and oneuptime.com at 1 answer each.
There is a striking gap in that list. Across all 14 source domains there is no G2, no Capterra, no Quora and no Stack Overflow. The review directories that vendors spend real money getting listed on did not feed a single one of these six answers. reddit.com did, in all 6, and github.com did, in all 6. In this category, community and code beat the directories outright.
Here is the finding that should change how a status page vendor spends its time. Several products were named because their own website was cited as a source. instatus.com was a source in 5 of 6 answers and Instatus was named in all 6. hyperping.com was a source in all 6 answers and Hyperping was named in 4. openstatus.dev (4 answers), status.io (4) and atlassian.com (2) each fed answers that then named their own product. The assistants are reading vendors' own comparison and pricing pages and repeating them back.
One domain, oneuptime.com, fed an answer without its product ever being named. Being cited is not the same as being recommended. But no product in this run was named in more than one answer without some source carrying it, which is the whole point: the source list, not the market, decides the shortlist.
What a status page vendor would actually do
If you want ChatGPT or Gemini to name your status page, the lever is not market share, it is which of these 14 source domains carry your name. Five of the six products named in 4 or more answers had their own domain in the source list. The exception is the most useful part: Better Stack was named in 5 of 6 answers without betterstack.com appearing as a source even once. Other people's pages carried it, the Reddit threads and the roundups.
So there are two roads in, and a vendor wants both. Be cited on your own comparison and pricing page the way instatus.com was in 5 of 6 answers, and be the name other people raise in the threads the way Better Stack was across 5 of 6. reddit.com fed all six answers and github.com fed all six, so a live presence in the relevant subreddit and, if you have an open-source edge, a real GitHub repo are not nice-to-haves here, they are the road. Getting listed on G2 or Capterra, which fed zero of these six answers, is not.
The full list, counted
| Product | Named in | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Instatus | 6 of 6 | 100% |
| Better Stack | 5 of 6 | 83% |
| Atlassian Statuspage | 4 of 6 | 67% |
| Hyperping | 4 of 6 | 67% |
| OpenStatus | 4 of 6 | 67% |
| Status.io | 4 of 6 | 67% |
| Gatus | 3 of 6 | 50% |
| Uptime Kuma | 3 of 6 | 50% |
| Grafana | 2 of 6 | 33% |
| UptimeRobot | 2 of 6 | 33% |
Below this top ten sit the six single-answer names from the fan-out section (Cachet, FlareWarden, ilert, incident.io, PagerDuty and Pulsetic), each named in 1 of 6.
One honest note to finish. Glotier is not on this list, and it should not be. We do not sell status page software, so there is no version of "best status page software" where ChatGPT or Gemini should name us. What you just read is the whole of what we do, aimed at a category that is not ours. We ran the same six-question measurement we would run for your product, in your category, and counted the names and the sources with nothing invented. If you want to see where your own product lands today, the check is free, takes about a minute, and needs no account.