Tool profile
Monitoring platform combining uptime checks, logs, tracing, status pages, and on call workflows.
SaaS vendors publishing customer-facing uptime history
Better Stack bundles Better Uptime (synthetic checks, incidents, status pages, call/SMS alerts) with Better Logs (structured log search) and related telemetry under one brand.
Public pricing (March 2026) highlights a free personal Telemetry track at $0 per member/month with 100,000 exceptions per month and free access to Telemetry features. Uptime commercial plans are shown around $29 per license per month on annual billing versus $34 month-to-month, with on-call responder add-ons cited around $9/responder license/mo. Logs is tiered by monthly log volume with entry cards in the ~$25–120/mo range on annual billing and larger bundles into the hundreds/month—use the on-site calculator for GB/day assumptions. Marketing copy advertises ~2 months free on annual prepay in places.
Compare Datadog, Axiom, and Grafana Cloud when you need full APM/traces; compare PagerDuty or Opsgenie if pure incident paging is the only requirement.
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Editorial take
Better Stack bundles incident response, telemetry, and status tooling in a way that looks simple until you realize each product family has its own meter. Model responders, status pages, and telemetry GB separately.
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Pricing snapshot
Better Stack's pricing is split by product family. The personal free plan includes 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB of logs for 3 days, 30 GB of metrics, and 3 GB of web or warehouse events. Uptime and incident response start with a responder license at $34 monthly or $29 billed annually. Telemetry bundles start at $25 billed annually or $30 monthly for the Nano logs, traces, and metrics bundle, with larger Micro, Mega, and Tera bundles above that.
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