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Better Stack

Uptime alerts, on-call, status pages and logs in one product, with a free tier that covers small projects. Responders from $29/month billed yearly.

Better Stack watches your website and app, alerts the right person by phone, SMS or Slack when something breaks, and publishes a branded status page for customers. Logs, traces, error tracking and session replay sit in the same place, with an MCP server for AI tools. A free tier covers small projects; responders cost $29/month billed yearly.

Free plan; paid from $25 per month billed annually ($30 monthly)

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Reviewed · Facts checked · Dev & Infrastructure

Good fit if

  • Founders and small dev teams who want uptime alerts, on-call and a status page without stitching several tools together.

Skip if

  • You only need a single ping check, or you're already invested in Datadog or Grafana for observability and PagerDuty for on-call.

Watch-outs

  • Responder seats are $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly). Germany Nano is $25/month billed yearly; US Nano is $45/$38 and Singapore Nano is $105/$88. Mega and Tera stay on the pricing page.

    Source: betterstack.com/pricing · checked

At a glance

Works with Better Stack

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    Postmark: Postmark delivers your app's transactional email; Better Stack watches the app itself and alerts you when it goes down.

Pricing

Better Stack plans with monthly price, annual price, and what each plan includes (USD)
FreeMonthlyFreeAnnual—What's included10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, Slack and email alerts.
Responderper license/monthMonthly$34Annual$29What's includedOn-call, monitoring and status pages, with phone and SMS alerts.
Nano (Germany)per monthMonthly$30Annual$25What's includedGermany region. 40 GB logs, traces and metrics, with 30-day retention.
Micro (Germany)per monthMonthly$120Annual$100What's includedGermany region. 160 GB logs, traces and metrics, with 30-day retention.

Pricing checked on · Better Stack pricing page

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Uptime alerts, on-call, status pages and logs in one product, with a free tier that covers small projects. Responders from $29/month billed yearly.

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