Better Stack pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Free for personal projects: $0 per month
- Responder: $29 per responder license per month, billed annually ($34 monthly)
- Enterprise: Custom (custom quote)
- Worth noting: Prices in USD. Responder licence annual price shown; monthly price is $34. Telemetry bundles and usage-based add-ons are priced separately. Free tier is for personal projects.
Plans
Free for personal projects
$0 per month
- 10 monitors & heartbeats
- 1 status page
- Slack & e-mail alerts
- 100,000 exceptions per month
- 5,000 session replays
- 3 GB logs retained for 3 days
- 3 GB traces retained for 3 days
- 30 GB metrics
- 3 GB web events retained for 3 days
Responder
$29 per responder license per month, billed annually ($34 monthly)
- Single responder included
- Unlimited phone call and SMS alerts
- Incident management with on-call, monitoring and status pages
- Unlimited team members
- Free access to Telemetry
Enterprise
Custom custom quote
- Enterprise SSO, audit logs and SCIM
- SOC 2 Type II report under NDA
- Custom telemetry data residency
- Custom VPC deployment
- Role-based access control
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Additional public status page | $15 per month ($12 billed annually) | Status pages, per page |
| Additional 1,000 status page subscribers | $40 per month | Status pages, per 1,000 subscribers |
| Additional 50 uptime monitors | $25 per month ($21 billed annually) | External monitoring, per 50 monitors |
| Additional 10 heartbeats | $20 per month ($17 billed annually) | Heartbeats (CRON) monitoring, per 10 heartbeats |
| Telemetry Bundle Nano | $25 per month billed yearly ($30 monthly) | Telemetry: 40 GB traces, 40 GB logs, 40 GB metrics |
Better Stack pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better Stack | Free; paid from $29 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | — | |
| Datadog | $0.05 / mo | No | Usage-based | Engineering teams that maintain, optimize and secure cloud or hybrid environments | Compare → |
| Grafana | Free; paid from $19 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Teams that want open-standard observability without lock-in, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises | Compare → |
| New Relic | Free; paid from $10 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Engineers responsible for application and system uptime and reliability, and teams that want full-stack observability starting from a free tier. | Compare → |
| OpenTelemetry | — | — | — | Teams that want to instrument applications once and keep the freedom to change observability backends | Compare → |
List prices as published on betterstack.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.