Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Instatus is an area vendor: providers adopt it to run part of their developer surface. This is the Kin Score checks its features can move for a provider that adopts it, what each one really earns, and what it earns nothing for.

status pagecapability map6 features checked 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.22.0

Instatus touches one Kin Score check, status_page_present, and is the clearest case in the area of a vendor’s hosting costing its customers the point. Every Instatus page returns an identical 200 for any path, which the pointer-liveness probe reads as a soft-404: 30 of 32 .instatus.com status pointers in the catalog grade dead (0 of 6 points). The free Starter plan has no custom domain, so a free customer cannot earn the check at all; on Pro a status. custom domain is graded unverified, 3 of 6. Its broad subscriber channels (webhook, RSS/Atom, Slack, SMS) and public JSON are real practice no check reads.

Operational Transparency3.0 of 38 pts

Check	Earns	Through
Status pageconditional Operational TransparencyOnly on a paid plan with a custom domain whose host begins with `status.`. The free *.instatus.com pointer earns 0 (see earns_nothing).	3.0 of 6	Custom domain

Across 8977 providers that publish a contract, adopting Instatus would move 0. Median lift: composite +0.0 (90th percentile +0.0), agent readiness +0.0 (+0.0). Conditional rows excluded.

What Instatus ships that earns nothing (2)

Hosted status page on a *.instatus.com subdomain — A *.instatus.com pointer is a soft-404 on a host the SPA rule does not excuse, so it grades dead: 30 of 32 in the catalog earn 0 of 6 points. This is the only option on the free plan.
Subscribers across email, SMS, webhook, Slack, Teams, Discord, Google Chat, X, RSS and Atom — Status-notification webhooks are the vendor’s event stream about the page, not webhooks of the provider’s API; declaring them as Webhooks would be a mis-declaration.

A model, not a score. Adopting this vendor changes a provider's Kin Score only when the provider publishes the resulting artifacts on its own surface; nothing here writes a score, and no sponsorship or partnership can. The rating is not for sale → · Full vendor facets artifact

APIs 1

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Instatus

Post to and update maintenance and incidents on your status page through an HTTP REST API

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Instatus Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

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PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: instatus
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/instatus.png
name: Instatus
description: Post to and update maintenance and incidents on your status page through an HTTP REST API
url: https://instatus.com/help/api
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-30'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Business
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
- Business
- Public APIs
apis:
- name: Instatus
  description: Post to and update maintenance and incidents on your status page through an HTTP REST API
  humanURL: https://instatus.com/help/api
  tags:
  - Business
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://instatus.com/help/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://instatus.com/help/webhooks
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: webhooks-asyncapi.yml
common:
- type: VendorFacets
  url: vendor-facets/instatus-vendor-facets.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/instatus-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://instatus.com/help/api
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
- url: https://instatus.com/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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