A few weeks after launching PageCalm, I sat down to write a one-page product description. Halfway through, the document said something like "I'm building for small teams who can't justify $29/month for a status page." Then a few lines down it listed my Pro tier at $29/month.

That contradiction is how a four-hour pricing audit started.

What I thought my pricing was

When I launched PageCalm, I shipped three tiers:

Free — 3 components, 50 subscribers, 5 AI generations per month (the code actually allowed 10, but that's a different story)

Pro $29/mo — 25 components, unlimited subscribers, 100 AI generations, custom domain

Team $59/mo — coming soon

The pricing page told a clean story: cheap on Free, get a custom domain on Pro, multi-page when Team ships. I launched and moved on to building features.

Then I went back and actually compared this against what every status page tool offers at every tier. That's when the picture got uglier.

What I found

Here's the part that hurts.…