Cachet
by Cachet · Open source, self-hosted status page system
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Overview
Cachet is an open source status page system for communicating downtime and outages to customers. It is self-hosted, and incidents can be created through a JSON API so monitoring tools can post updates automatically. It also covers scheduled maintenance, custom metrics charts, two-factor authentication and 10+ languages.
- Best for
- Teams that want to self-host a status page for telling customers about outages
- Pricing
- Free — Cachet is open source and self-hosted, with optional GitHub sponsorship and a professional installation service whose price is not shown.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Open source and free to self-host on your own infrastructure
- JSON API for creating incidents from monitoring tools
- Interface available in 10+ languages
- Two-factor authentication and password manager support
Trade-offs
- Self-hosted only; no hosted version is offered on the site
- Version 3 is still being rebuilt, with 2.x and 3.x demos side by side
- Installation help is a separate service with no price published
- Funded by sponsorship, so support depends on volunteer effort
How Cachet markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Cachet’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Downtime happens. Communicate it.”
- Angle: Pain agitation
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Cachet’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Cachet pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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