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Best Better Stack alternatives (2026)
10 alternatives to Better Stack in log management, ranked by entry price. Better Stack starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: Grafana Cloud Logs, Loggly (SolarWinds), New Relic Logs, Papertrail, SigNoz Cloud.
- Closest by price: Grafana Cloud Logs ($0/mo), Loggly (SolarWinds) ($0/mo), New Relic Logs ($0/mo).
Better Stack alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grafana Cloud Logs | $0/mo | Yes | — | Teams already using Grafana/Prometheus/Loki wanting a fully managed, no-ops cloud version | grafana.com |
| 2 | Loggly (SolarWinds) STALE · 2026-09-05 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Teams already in the SolarWinds ecosystem | loggly.com |
| 3 | New Relic Logs | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Teams wanting a very generous free tier (100 GB/month) before committing | newrelic.com |
| 4 | Papertrail STALE · 2026-06-14 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Heroku-hosted apps needing instant, zero-config log aggregation | getapp.com |
| 5 | SigNoz Cloud STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | OpenTelemetry-first engineering teams wanting a single platform for logs, traces, and metrics | signoz.io |
| 6 | Sematext Logs | $5/mo | — | — | Small to mid-size engineering teams wanting affordable ELK-compatible log management | sematext.com |
| 7 | Logit.io STALE · 2026-06-14 | $9/mo | No | Yes | UK/EU companies needing ISO 27001, GDPR, and Cyber Essentials alongside log management | logit.io |
| 8 | Datadog Logs STALE · 2026-09-02 | usage-priced | No | Yes | Enterprises already using Datadog for APM or infrastructure monitoring | datadoghq.com |
| 9 | Logz.io STALE · 2026-09-02 | usage-priced | No | — | Teams already familiar with ELK/OpenSearch wanting a managed, scalable SaaS version | logz.io |
| 10 | Sumo Logic | not priced monthly | No | Yes | SecOps teams needing unified log management and cloud SIEM in one platform | sumologic.com |
Data current through 2026-10-12. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 6 of 10 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the Log Management index.