Compare 27 free alternatives to Sematext for Monitoring. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, each with the date we last verified it.

Best Sematext Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

27 free alternatives in Monitoring. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Sematext Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: Monitoring
Pricing Page: sematext.com/pricing

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

reduced discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium impact
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-07). The free tier now has a 1-day retention instead of 7, and is priced per host. Retracted 2026-09-07: this record compared two different products on sematext.com/pricing. The stored terms describe the Logs Basic plan, and the page's Logs Basic card still reads "Retention 7 days" and "Daily Volume 500 MB/day" — both stored figures unchanged. The "Retention 1 day" and per-host price this record reports are the Infra Monitoring Basic card, a different product on the same page. The page's FAQ reads "Each Monitoring App is independent and each App can have a different plan, including the free plan." Source ↗

All Free Alternatives (27)

23 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 4 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: UptimeRobot (shares no subtype with this product), Pulsetic (shares no subtype with this product), Healthchecks.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusCake (shares no subtype with this product), PagerDuty (shares no subtype with this product), Uptimia (shares no subtype with this product), incident.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusPile (shares no subtype with this product), Core Web Vitals History (none of this category's subtypes apply), deadmanssnitch.com (shares no subtype with this product), downtimemonkey.com (shares no subtype with this product), economize.cloud (none of this category's subtypes apply), incidenthub.cloud (shares no subtype with this product), linkok.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), loader.io (none of this category's subtypes apply), MonitorMonk (shares no subtype with this product), OntarioNet.ca CN Test (none of this category's subtypes apply), pagecrawl.io (shares no subtype with this product), pagertree.com (shares no subtype with this product), phare.io (shares no subtype with this product), pingbreak.com (shares no subtype with this product), Pingmeter.com (shares no subtype with this product), pingpong.one (shares no subtype with this product), robusta.dev (none of this category's subtypes apply), Servervana (shares no subtype with this product), sitesure.net (shares no subtype with this product), statusgator.com (shares no subtype with this product), SweetUptime (shares no subtype with this product), UptimeObserver.com (shares no subtype with this product), uptimetoolbox.com (shares no subtype with this product), Wachete (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Always Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-18
Lite
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-10
New Relic stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-16
Datadog stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-08-12 · tried again 2026-09-09 and did not read the page
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-13
Sentry stable
Developer
Monitoring Read 2026-09-01 · catalogue date 2026-08-11
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-26
AppSignal stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-09
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-11
BetterStack stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-16
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-12
Grafana stable
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-09 · catalogue date 2026-08-27
Axiom stable
Personal
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-13
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-10 · catalogue date 2026-07-07
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-22
SigNoz stable
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-09 · catalogue date 2026-08-27
netdata.cloud stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-15 · catalogue date 2026-07-08
Grafana Cloud stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-16 · catalogue date 2026-08-14
Hacker
Monitoring Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-18
Elastic stable
Free OSS
Monitoring Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-27
syagent.com stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-09
bleemeo.com stable
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-07-11
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-12 · catalogue date 2026-07-06
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-08-28 · catalogue date 2026-07-07
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: The page now highlights a 14-day free trial and a starting plan at €19/month. Source: https://fivenines.io/
Middleware.io stable
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-10
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-09). The free tier now offers a 14-day free trial with unlimited data ingestion, instead of a 'free forever' plan with specific limits. Previously 100 GB/month data, 1,000 RUM sessions/month, 20,000 synthetic checks/month, and 14-day data retention. Retracted 2026-09-09: middleware.io/pricing/, the page this record cites, opens its plan ladder with "Free Forever. $0. Free access to all features with monthly limits." and lists "Up to 100GB Data. Up to 1k RUM Sessions. Up to 20k Synthetic Checks. 10 Browser Test Runs. Unlimited Users." Those are the terms this record withheld, figure for figure. The sentence this record read - "We provide 14 days free trial with unlimited data ingestion" - is an answer about trial retention further down the same page, and it is still there today beside the free plan. The page did not change; the reading did. Source: https://middleware.io/pricing/
Free
Monitoring Read 2026-09-11 · catalogue date 2026-07-13
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: The page highlights a 14-day free trial, and then lists paid plans starting at $4.99/mo. Source: https://xitoring.com/
Free
Monitoring Read and confirmed 2026-09-07
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-08-28: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-09). Pricing starts at $3/month. Retracted 2026-09-09: simpleobservability.com/pricing publishes "Free. Free plan for one server. Ideal for testing, development, or low-traffic workloads." and prices it "Free. for 1 server." with 50 metrics per server. Our withheld terms read "Free for one server." The "$3/month" this record quotes is the paid rung above that plan and is still on the same page. Source: https://simpleobservability.com
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-17
query_key
alternative-to:Sematext
seed
c1abbcdeab3e431a566452fe15d83a56fe33b442cb3a07eda3d19a846ce4745b
tie_count
23

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Sematext?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 27 free alternatives to Sematext, each listed below with its tier, category and the date we last verified it. Of those, 23 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 4 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Sematext's free tier still available?
Yes, Sematext currently offers a free tier (Basic (Free)). The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.
How many free alternatives to Sematext exist?
There are 27 free alternatives to Sematext tracked on AgentDeals across the Monitoring category.
Has Sematext changed their pricing?
Sematext has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was discovered 2026-08-28: Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-07). The free tier now has a 1-day retention instead of 7, and is priced per host. Retracted 2026-09-07: this record compared two different products on sematext.com/pricing. The stored terms describe the Logs Basic plan, and the page's Logs Basic card still reads "Retention 7 days" and "Daily Volume 500 MB/day" — both stored figures unchanged. The "Retention 1 day" and per-host price this record reports are the Infra Monitoring Basic card, a different product on the same page. The page's FAQ reads "Each Monitoring App is independent and each App can have a different plan, including the free plan." Source: https://sematext.com/pricing

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