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Free plan · paid from $29/seat/mobilled yearly

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Better Stack is a monitoring and incident management platform for software and operations teams. It covers uptime monitoring, on-call scheduling, status pages, log management, tracing and error tracking, so engineers can detect outages, alert responders and investigate incidents. A free plan serves personal projects.

Facts at a glance

FactValueSource
Free planFreemium: a free plan existsbetterstack.com/pricing, checked 14 Nov 2026
Starting price$29/seat/mo · billed yearlybetterstack.com/pricing, checked 14 Nov 2026
PlatformsiOS, Android, APIbetterstack.com/pricing, checked 14 Nov 2026

Pricing & plans

Pricing

Free plan · paid from $29/seat/mo

USD, billed yearly

Model

Freemium

Free plan available

Price tiers

PlanPer monthUsage, as the vendor states it
FreeFreeFor personal projects; 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month and 5,000 session replays
Responder$34/moPer license; includes on-call, monitoring and status pages with unlimited phone call and SMS alerts; annual billing is listed at 29 per license per month

Prices are the vendor's list prices in USD.

  • Monthly billing of a responder license is listed at 34 USD per license per month

  • Logs, traces, metrics and other telemetry beyond the free allowances are billed by usage, with unlimited team members

Source: betterstack.com/pricing, checked 14 Nov 2026

Better Stack Free, in practice

What the free plan covers and where it stops.

Free plan limits

  • 10 monitors and heartbeats
  • 1 status page
  • 100,000 exceptions per month
  • 5,000 session replays
  • 3 GB of logs kept for 3 days
  • 30 GB of metrics

Sources: betterstack.com/pricing

Features & platforms

  • Uptime monitoring with cron job heartbeats

  • Incident management with on-call scheduling

  • Status pages for communicating downtime

  • Log management and OpenTelemetry-native tracing

  • Error tracking compatible with Sentry

  • Session replay and real user monitoring

  • iOS
  • Android
  • API

Sources: betterstack.com/pricing, checked 14 Nov 2026

Alternatives

Sentry: Free developer plan is limited to one user and covers error monitoring, tracing, email alerts and 10 custom dashboards.

UptimeRobot: Offers 50 monitors on the free plan at a 5 minute interval, with basic status pages and only 5 integrations.

Grafana Cloud: Always-free tier gives access to all Grafana Cloud services within usage limits, with 14 days retention for telemetry data.

Sources: sentry.io/pricing, uptimerobot.com/pricing, grafana.com/pricing

Data & privacy

  • Personal data is processed by Better Stack, Inc., a Delaware corporation

  • Data may be processed in countries with an adequate level of protection or under safeguards such as standard contractual clauses

  • Users can ask for their personal information to be erased unless a legitimate ground prevents it

Privacy policy

Source: betterstack.com/privacy, policy last updated November 25, 2022, checked 14 Nov 2026. These points restate the policy and are not legal advice.

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