As of 2026-09-02, betterstack.com/pricing reads: Free for personal projects $0 per month Start for free 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status… Our stored BetterStack terms are superseded and withheld. See the recorded change history and 44 alternatives in Monitoring.

BetterStack Free Tier 2026 stable

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.

Limits, pricing history, and 44 alternatives. Verified September 2026. Last updated 2026-09-16.

As of 2026-09-02, betterstack.com/pricing reads: 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… We are not publishing our stored BetterStack terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-02, names them as the previous ones. We rate it stable. The one change we have recorded names our stored terms as the previous ones. Best for monitoring workloads — 44 alternatives available.

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⚠️ Pricing change: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source ↗ (discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown) View in changelog →
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Free Tier Details

Superseded: As of 2026-09-02, betterstack.com/pricing reads: Free for personal projects $0 per month Start for free 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page Slack & e-mail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. We are not publishing our stored BetterStack terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-02, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓

We read that on 2026-09-16 from https://betterstack.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names BetterStack as "betterstack" and states "$0".

Pricing Change History (1 recorded)

The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source ↗
Before: 10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder
After: 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

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Alternatives in Monitoring

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
phare.io Free stable
Elastic Free OSS unrated
Uptimia Free stable
incident.io Basic stable
MonitorMonk Free stable
Pingmeter.com Free stable
SigNoz Free OSS stable
Middleware.io Free stable
New Relic Free stable
Hyperping Free stable
360 Monitoring Lite stable
Sentry Developer stable
Axiom Personal stable
StatusCake Free stable
UptimeRobot Free unrated
Pulsetic Free stable
bleemeo.com Free unrated
Grafana Cloud Free stable
Cronitor Hacker unrated
pagertree.com Free unrated
SweetUptime Free stable
AppSignal Free caution
PagerDuty Free stable
Google Cloud Monitoring Always Free unrated
Grafana Free OSS stable
OnlineOrNot Free stable
uptimetoolbox.com Free caution
Sematext Basic (Free) stable
skylight.io Free stable
Simple Observability Free stable
syagent.com Free stable
netdata.cloud Free stable
Jaeger Free OSS source unconfirmed
Servervana Free source unconfirmed
inspector.dev Free source unconfirmed
Prometheus Free OSS source unconfirmed
sitesure.net Free source unconfirmed
pingpong.one Free source unconfirmed
pingbreak.com Free source unconfirmed
downtimemonkey.com Free source unconfirmed
Datadog Free stable
UptimeObserver.com Free source unconfirmed
Xitoring.com Free risky
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.

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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 list above is every one of the 44 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is BetterStack free?
As of 2026-09-02, betterstack.com/pricing reads: 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. We are not publishing our stored BetterStack terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-02, names them as the previous ones. What our record says changed: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source: https://betterstack.com/pricing
What is BetterStack's free tier?
BetterStack's free tier is called "Free". As of 2026-09-02, betterstack.com/pricing reads: 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. We are not publishing our stored BetterStack terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-02, names them as the previous ones.
Is BetterStack's free tier reliable?
BetterStack's free tier is considered stable. The one change we have recorded names our stored terms as the previous ones. See the pricing history below.
Is BetterStack's free tier good for production?
As of 2026-09-02, betterstack.com/pricing reads: 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… We are not publishing our stored BetterStack terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-02, names them as the previous ones. Until we have re-read the page we cannot say what capacity BetterStack gives you, so we are not recommending it for production on figures we have already superseded.
What changed in BetterStack's pricing?
BetterStack has had 1 recorded pricing change. Most recently: The free tier now includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, 5,000 session replays, 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. Source: https://betterstack.com/pricing (discovered 2026-09-02).
What are the best free alternatives to BetterStack?
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 44 free alternatives to BetterStack in Monitoring, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 32 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 12 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow BetterStack's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade or evaluate alternatives in the same category.
What category is BetterStack in?
BetterStack is categorized under Monitoring on AgentDeals. We list 44 other Monitoring services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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