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 The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.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 2026-10-30 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 |
| Google Cloud Monitoring | Always Free Always Free: all non-chargeable Google Cloud metrics, first 1M monitoring API calls/month. Dashboards, alerting, and uptime checks for GCP resources
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unrated |
| Simple Observability | Free Powerful server monitoring in a unified platform for metrics and logs, with no setup complexity. Free for one server. |
stable |
| Middleware.io | Free Full-stack observability platform — free forever plan: 100 GB/month data (APM, logs, infrastructure, traces, RUM, synthetics, database, serverless), 1,000 RUM sessions/month, 20,000 synthetic checks/month, 14-day data retention, unlimited users |
stable |
| SweetUptime | Free Server monitoring, uptime monitoring, DNS & domain monitoring. Monitor 10 servers, 20 uptime monitors and 20 domain & SSL monitors for free, with 5 status pages and a 1-minute check interval. |
stable |
| Grafana | Free OSS Grafana OSS — the self-hosted dashboarding and alerting front end, free under AGPL-3.0-only with Apache-2.0 exceptions. Unifies 150+ data sources into one dashboard and supports observability-as-code. |
stable |
| PagerDuty | Free Incident management — 5 users, 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy, 100 intl phone/SMS notifications/month, 700+ integrations, API access |
stable |
| Uptimia | Free Website uptime monitoring. The free plan has one website and one API monitor, each checked as often as every 5 minutes; transaction, page-speed and real-user monitoring start with the paid plans. |
stable |
| skylight.io | Free Application performance monitoring — free for first 100,000 traces/month. |
stable |
| Datadog | Free Infrastructure monitoring free for up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention |
stable |
| phare.io | Free Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, phare.io reads: The Hobby plan is free forever, no credit card required. You get unlimited team members, unlimited projects, and all the core features. |
stable |
| UptimeRobot | Free Free $ 0 /month. 50 monitors, 5 min. |
stable |
| SigNoz | Free OSS OpenTelemetry-native observability with logs, metrics and traces in one tool. The community edition is free to self-host. |
stable |
| incident.io | Basic Incident management platform — free Basic plan: up to 5 users, Slack or Microsoft Teams native incident response, single-team on-call scheduling, 1 status page, essential incident automation |
stable |
| uptimetoolbox.com | Free Basic $ 0 per month 5 Monitors 3 Minute Checks 1 Status Page 1 Server 7 Day Hi-Res Retention 3 Month Historical Data |
stable |
| Pingmeter.com | Free Free account is limited to accounts with 1 category and less than 5 uptime monitors. It exclude pro features such as sms/voice notification, scheduling and recovery actions. |
stable |
| Pulsetic | Free Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status pages |
stable |
| 360 Monitoring | Lite Server and website monitoring (formerly Nixstats) — free Lite plan: 1 server monitor, 5 site monitors, 10-minute check interval, 24-hour data retention, email alerts |
stable |
| Axiom | Personal Observability platform — 500 GB ingest/month, 25 GB storage, 30-day retention, 2 datasets, 1 user, 10 GB-hrs/mo query compute, 256 fields/dataset, 3 monitors, Email/Discord notifiers only |
unrated |
| syagent.com | Free Free server monitoring service with alerts and metrics. Up to 25 servers and 25 uptime monitoring instances. |
stable |
| Elastic | Free OSS The Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, ingest and basic security — self-managed at no cost on the Free and Open tier under the Elastic License and SSPL, with community support. Platinum (existing customers only) and Enterprise are custom-priced and add machine learning, cross-cluster… |
stable |
| MonitorMonk | Free Minimalist uptime monitoring with beautiful status pages. The Forever Free plan offers HTTPS, Keyword, SSL and Response-time monitorming for 10 websites or api-endpoints, and provides 2 dashboards/status pages. |
stable |
| New Relic | Free Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention |
stable |
| Cronitor | Hacker Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alerts, 1 status page (50 subscribers), 12-month data retention, single user |
unrated |
| AppSignal | Free Application monitoring (APM, errors, logging) — Our free plan is perfect for startups, hobby, or side-projects 30K requests 1GB logging 5-day retention |
caution |
| OnlineOrNot | Free Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team members, 1 status page, SSL monitoring, multi-location checks, email/Slack/Discord alerts |
stable |
| pagertree.com | Free Simple interface for alerting and on-call management. Free up to 5 users. |
unrated |
| pingbreak.com | Free Modern uptime monitoring service. Check unlimited URLs and get downtime notifications via Discord, Slack, or email. |
source unconfirmed |
| Prometheus | Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting. |
source unconfirmed |
| pingpong.one | Free Advanced status page platform with monitoring. The free tier includes one public customizable status page with an SSL subdomain. |
source unconfirmed |
| Sentry | Developer Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments |
stable |
| UptimeObserver.com | Free Get 20 uptime monitors with 5-minute intervals and a customizable status page—even for commercial use. Enjoy unlimited, real-time notifications via email and Telegram. |
source unconfirmed |
| Hyperping | Free Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 20 monitors (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), 5-minute check interval, 1 basic status page with real-time updates and subscriber notifications, 1 seat, 1 server monitoring agent, email and webhook alerts |
stable |
| Sematext | Basic (Free) Observability platform — Logs: 500 MB/day ingestion, 7-day retention. Monitoring: 3 hosts, 3 containers/host, 30-min data retention, 1 alert rule. |
stable |
| Servervana | Free Uptime monitoring with support for large projects and teams. Free tier: 10 HTTP monitors, 1 DNS monitor and 1 status page. |
source unconfirmed |
| downtimemonkey.com | Free 60 uptime monitors, 5-minute interval. Email, Slack alerts. |
source unconfirmed |
| bleemeo.com | Free Free for 3 servers, 5 uptime monitors, unlimited users, unlimited dashboards, unlimited alerting rules. |
unrated |
| inspector.dev | Free A complete Real-Time monitoring dashboard in less than one minute with a free forever tier. |
source unconfirmed |
| sitesure.net | Free Website and cron monitoring - 2 monitors free |
source unconfirmed |
| StatusCake | Free Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors, 5-min intervals, 1 page speed monitor, 1 domain monitor, 1 SSL monitor, email alerts, basic integrations |
stable |
| Jaeger | Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated distributed tracing system. |
source unconfirmed |
| netdata.cloud | Free Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub! |
unrated |
| Grafana Cloud | Free Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support. 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces are included. |
stable |
| Xitoring.com | Free Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, xitoring.com reads: The page offers a 14-day free trial, and then paid plans starting at $4.99/mo for Uptime + SSL. We are not publishing our stored Xitoring.com terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. |
unrated — change unconfirmed |
| fivenines.io | Trial Linux server monitoring with real-time dashboards and alerting — no permanent free tier. 14-day free trial with no credit card required; paid plans from €19/month. |
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