Better Stack
Uptime monitoring, status pages, on-call, logs and error tracking in one place.
- Price
- From $29 per responder/month billed yearly ($34 monthly)
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup
- No code
- Up and running
- About 10 minutes for monitors and the status page; logs take an extra hour.
What Better Stack is for
Better Stack checks your site every few minutes from outside and alerts you when it goes down, often before any customer notices. It also gives you a public status page to show customers what's happening, plus logs and error tracking. Paid seats add phone and SMS alerts so someone on call actually wakes up.
How it plugs into your product
- 1Create a free account and add a monitor with your site's or API's URL.
- 2Choose who gets alerted and how: email and Slack on free, phone and SMS with a paid responder.
- 3Create the status page and point a subdomain like status.yoursite.com to it.
- 4Optionally send app logs or errors through their SDK or log shipper.
Does it fit your idea?
It fits if
- Your SaaS has paying customers and you need to know within minutes when the site or API is down.
- B2B customers ask for a status page and you want one for free.
- You have up to 10 things to watch, like the site, the API, a webhook and a few nightly jobs.
Look elsewhere if
- You need the exact line of code behind each crash with the user's session: Sentry goes deeper on errors.
- You want the whole team paged by phone on a tight budget; each responder is a monthly seat in dollars.
- You need logs kept for weeks on the free plan; free logs are kept for only 3 days.
What people only find out after building
Read this before you build on it. Each item links to the official page that says so.
Free monitors check every 3 minutes at best; 30-second checks are paid only.
Official source: betterstack.comPhone call and SMS alerts aren't on the free plan; each person who gets them needs a responder seat at $34/month ($29 yearly).
Official source: betterstack.comPast 10 monitors you pay for packs of 50 at $25/month, and each extra public status page costs $15/month.
Official source: betterstack.com
Price
From $29 per responder/month billed yearly ($34 monthly)
10 monitors, 1 status page, 100K exceptions/month and 3GB of logs kept for 3 days.
- Free tier
- 10 monitors, 100K errors/month
- First paid plan
- $34/responder/month ($29 yearly)
- What it covers
- Uptime, status page, on-call, logs, errors
Checked on Oct 28, 2026 · official pricing
What it costs in practice
Two founders who want phone alerts at night: 2 responders × $34 = $68/month, or $58/month paid yearly. With email and Slack only, the same setup with 10 monitors and a status page costs $0. Rough estimate.
Estimate from the official price. Check it before you decide.
At a glance
- Free plan: yes
- Open source: no
“Not stated” means the official site doesn’t say.
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