# Better Stack pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Team Member (Telemetry)). Among the 8 status pages we track it is the cheapest; median entry $15/mo.
**Domain:** betterstack.com
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA No · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Jira, Sentry, Zapier, Terraform, PagerDuty, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Vector, Syslog
**Best for:** Engineering teams needing a unified observability + status page platform; Startups wanting a generous free monitoring tier with status page included; Teams requiring EU data residency for GDPR compliance; Organizations that want uptime, on-call, and status page under one subscription
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Team Member (Telemetry) | $0 | — | per_seat | Read-only Telemetry access; cannot manage incidents or edit status pages. | betterstack.com |
| Responder | $34 | −15% | per_seat | $34/seat/month billed monthly; $29/seat/month billed annually (~15% discount). Includes uptime monitoring, on-call scheduling, and 1 status page. Additional pages: $15/month each ($12/year). Custom CSS/JS: $15/page/month. White-label or SSO: $250/page/month ($208/year). | betterstack.com |

**Key features:** Uptime monitoring: website, API, ping, SSL, domain, DNS, SMTP, TCP; Transaction monitoring with real Chrome/Playwright browser tests; Heartbeat/cron job monitoring; On-call scheduling and escalation rules; Multi-channel alerting: voice, SMS, email, Slack, Teams, push; Status page with subscriber email notifications; Incident management with smart alert consolidation; Log management and error tracking; SOC 2 Type 2 certified; all data stored in EU (ISO/IEC 27001-certified DCs); AES-256 encryption at rest; HTTPS/TLS in transit; 60-day money-back guarantee.

**Plan limits:** Free tier: 10 monitors, 10 heartbeats, 1 status page, 3-minute check intervals; Free tier: 1,000 status page subscribers; Free tier: 100,000 exceptions/month, 5,000 session replays, 3-day telemetry retention; Additional status pages: $15/month each; White-label or custom SSO per page: $250/page/month; Custom CSS/JS per page: $15/page/month; Responder seat required to manage incidents or edit status pages.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Prices read directly from the official Better Stack pricing page (betterstack.com/pricing) on 2026-06-14. Better Stack uses a per-responder-seat model: one status page is included; additional pages and features are metered add-ons. The Responder role at $34/month ($29/year) is the smallest billable unit that unlocks status page editing. White-label, SSO, and IP-allowlisting are each $250/page/month. No HIPAA mention found on the uptime or pricing pages.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/status-pages/better-stack/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Better Stack's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/status-pages/better-stack/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl