BetterStack free tier includes 10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB… Verified October 2026. Compare with 44 alternatives in Monitoring.
Subtypes in Monitoring: uptime_check — polls a URL or host from outside your infrastructure on a fixed interval and alerts when it stops answering; it runs no code of yours; log_management — ingests, stores and queries log lines; the line is the stored unit and retention is a priced dimension; error_tracking — captures unhandled exceptions with stack traces and groups repeat occurrences into one issue; metrics_backend — stores time-indexed measurements and serves queries over them; dashboards and alerting are built on top rather than sold as the product; status_page — publishes a page your own users read to see whether your service is up; on_call_response — routes a firing alert to a named human by schedule and escalation policy. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, where it says: “On-call calendar ICS export” How we use this.
BetterStack's free tier offers 10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page… We rate it stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Best for monitoring workloads — 44 alternatives available.
10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder
We read that on 2026-10-06 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names BetterStack as "betterstack" and states "100,000 exceptions per month" and "3 GB per month" and "100k exceptions / month".
Free for personal projects $0 per month Start for free 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
How BetterStack compares against every one of the 44 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| BetterStack | Free | stable |
| MonitorMonk | Free | stable |
| Cronitor | Hacker | unrated |
| Grafana | Free OSS | stable |
| Sentry | Developer | stable |
| PagerDuty | Free | stable |
| UptimeRobot | Free | stable |
| Google Cloud Monitoring | Always Free | unrated |
| Pingmeter.com | Free | stable |
| syagent.com | Free | stable |
| SweetUptime | Free | stable |
| Elastic | Free OSS | unrated |
| Servervana | Free | source unconfirmed |
| skylight.io | Free | stable |
| StatusCake | Free | stable |
| Middleware.io | Free | caution |
| phare.io | Free | stable |
| Simple Observability | Free | stable |
| SigNoz | Free OSS | stable |
| New Relic | Free | stable |
| Uptimia | Free | stable |
| Grafana Cloud | Free | stable |
| incident.io | Basic | stable |
| 360 Monitoring | Lite | stable |
| Axiom | Personal | unrated |
| AppSignal | Free | caution |
| Pulsetic | Free | stable |
| uptimetoolbox.com | Free | stable |
| UptimeObserver.com | Free | source unconfirmed |
| inspector.dev | Free | source unconfirmed |
| downtimemonkey.com | Free | source unconfirmed |
| OnlineOrNot | Free | stable |
| pingpong.one | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Hyperping | Free | stable |
| pagertree.com | Free | unrated |
| pingbreak.com | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Prometheus | Free OSS | source unconfirmed |
| sitesure.net | Free | source unconfirmed |
| netdata.cloud | Free | unrated |
| Jaeger | Free OSS | source unconfirmed |
| Datadog | Free | stable |
| bleemeo.com | Free | unrated |
| Sematext | Basic (Free) | stable |
| Xitoring.com | Free | unrated — change unconfirmed |
| fivenines.io | Trial | risky |
Left out of this list: Healthchecks.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusPile (shares no subtype with this product), assertible.com (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), 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), OntarioNet.ca CN Test (none of this category's subtypes apply), pagecrawl.io (shares no subtype with this product), robusta.dev (none of this category's subtypes apply), statusgator.com (shares no subtype with this product), Wachete (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in Monitoring, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=BetterStack
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=BetterStack
Look up BetterStack programmatically with the AgentDeals MCP server:
{
"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "BetterStack",
"limit": 5
}
}