Uptime Monitoring · pricing · Updated October 2026
Better Stack pricing (2026)
Better Stack's paid plans start at $34/user/mo (Responder) as checked on 2026-10-12, read from Better Stack's own pricing page; 2 plans. Best for Engineering teams wanting uptime monitoring bundled with log management and error tracking. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $34/user/mo (Responder) · 15% off with annual billing
- Free tier: Yes
- Compliance: HIPAA No · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
- Best for: Engineering teams wanting uptime monitoring bundled with log management and error tracking; On-call teams needing voice/SMS escalation without per-alert fees; Teams preferring EU data residency and strong compliance posture (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR)
As of · every figure below links to its source STALE · 2026-09-03
Better Stack plans & pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | Flat monthly | Personal projects. 10 uptime monitors, 10 heartbeats, 1 status page, 100K exceptions/month, 5K session replays. Slack and email alerts included. | betterstack.com |
| Responder STALE · 2026-09-03 | $34 | −15% | Per user / seat | Annualized monthly rate $29/seat/mo. Month-to-month rate is $34/seat/mo. Includes uptime monitoring + full telemetry access, unlimited SMS/phone alerts, on-call scheduling, iOS/Android apps, REST API, Terraform provider. Additional monitors: +50 monitors $21/mo (annual) or $25/mo (monthly). | betterstack.com |
Last verified 2026-10-12. STALE marks a plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 1 of 2 plans above is marked. https://betterstack.com/pricing fetched directly; re-verified live 2026-06-23, all unchanged: Free $0 (10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays) and Responder $29/seat/mo annual or $34/seat/mo month-to-month. SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance stated; no HIPAA/BAA mention. Pricing is per-seat (Responder) plus optional add-ons. Free tier included for personal projects. This note predates a correction to the plans above, from 2026-09-11; the table holds the corrected figures.See the corrections.
Price changes
Price on record
$34/user/moFirst on record 2026-10-16
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
Tracked since October 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Corrections to this record
Changes we made to our own record of Better Stack, newest first: a figure read again on the vendor's page, a plan it no longer lists, a note. None of them is a price change by Better Stack. Every correction on the site is in the corrections log.
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Source replaced, price unchanged. https://betterstack.com/uptime/pricing answers 301 and lands on https://betterstack.com/pricing — the same page at the address the site now uses. The figure is unchanged and still stands on the day it was read; only the link the reader follows is corrected, so it no longer bounces through a redirect. Same host, same scheme, and the destination keeps every distinguishing word of the page's own name.
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Responder. Correction 2026-09-11: The monthly price moved from $29 to $34. The plan's own note says the recorded figure is the yearly-billed rate and names $34 as the price billed monthly, in the same sentence. The monthly price holds the month-to-month price — the schema says so and the annual discount carries the saving separately — so the comparison tables were understating the entry price of this plan by the whole discount. Both figures are read from the note as it stood; nothing was derived. This is the same correction 190 rows took on 2026-09-09 and a hundred more on 2026-09-10, missed here only because the note says "billed yearly" or "when billed annually" where the check wanted the word "annually" alone.
Capabilities
Integrations: Slack, PagerDuty, Grafana, Datadog, GitHub, Linear, Sentry, Terraform.
Key features: Unified observability: uptime + logs + error tracking + session replay in one platform; On-call scheduling with unlimited voice/SMS alerts on paid plans; SOC 2 Type II certified; data stored in EU ISO 27001-certified data centers; Terraform and REST API for infrastructure-as-code workflows; iOS/Android mobile apps for on-call incident response.
Plan limits: Free: 10 uptime monitors, 10 heartbeats, 1 status page, 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays; Responder: $29/seat/mo (annual); add-on +50 monitors for $21/mo (annual); Unlimited SMS/phone alerts on paid plans.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Better Stack cost?
Better Stack's paid plans start at $34/user/mo (Responder), and it lists a $0 plan (Free); it has 2 published plans. Verified 2026-10-12.
Is Better Stack cheaper billed annually?
Yes. Better Stack publishes a 15% discount for paying annually (on the Responder plan). Verified 2026-10-12.
Does Better Stack support HIPAA?
No — Better Stack's public pages state no HIPAA support. Its public pages also state SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.
Does Better Stack have a free plan?
Yes — Better Stack publishes a free tier.
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