Better Stack vs OpenStatus

See how their public offers line up before you choose your own position. Prices stay in the currency, billing schedule, and charged unit each vendor publishes.

Better Stack

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USD · US · source: betterstack.com

Plan	Pricing	Charged by	Offer type
Free for personal projects — free	Free $0 per month	Flat	Standalone · Free
Starts at just $29 — responder Highlighted	USD 29 monthly · USD 29 / month with annual commitment $29 per license per month	Seat · per license per month	Standalone · Fixed

OpenStatus

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USD · US · source: www.openstatus.dev

Plan	Pricing	Charged by	Offer type
Hobby	Free Free	Flat · published offer	Standalone · Free
Starter	USD 30 monthly $30/month	Flat · published offer	Standalone · Fixed
Pro	USD 100 monthly $100/month	Flat · published offer	Standalone · Fixed
Scale	USD 500 monthly $500/month	Flat · published offer	Standalone · Fixed
Enterprise	Contact sales Custom	Flat · published offer	Standalone · Contact sales

What each plan includes

Feature names follow each vendor’s own pricing page, so verify the wording before treating them as exact equivalents.

Better Stack

Free for personal projects — free

Highlights Monitors & heartbeats: 10 monitors & heartbeats

Included
Highlights Status pages: 1 status page

Included
Highlights Alerts: Slack & e-mail alerts

Included
Highlights Exceptions: 100,000 exceptions per month

Included
Highlights Session replays: 5,000 session replays

Included
Highlights Logs retention: 3 GB logs retained for 3 days

Included
Highlights Traces retention: 3 GB traces retained for 3 days

Included
Highlights Metrics: 30 GB metrics

Included
Highlights Web events retention: 3 GB web events retained for 3 days

Included

Starts at just $29 — responder

Highlights Responder: Single responder

Included
Highlights Team members: Unlimited team members

Included
Highlights Access: Access to Uptime with incident management, on-call, monitoring and status pages with unlimited phone call and SMS alerts

Included
Highlights Incident management: AI SRE Slack-native AI SRE agent, Slack & Teams-based native incident management, on-call scheduling, unlimited phone call alerts, SMS, reporting & analytics

Included

OpenStatus

Hobby

Plan card Monitors: 1

Limited
Plan card Interval: 10 minutes

Limited

Starter

Plan card More monitors: 0

Limited
Plan card Faster checks: 1

Limited

Pro

Plan card Team monitoring: 0

Limited
Plan card Advanced status pages: 1

Limited

Scale

Plan card Scale monitoring: 0

Limited
Plan card Priority support: 1

Limited

Enterprise

Plan card Custom scale: 0

Limited
Plan card Enterprise support: 1

Limited

How their prices changed

Each dated row shows the public prices observed when that vendor’s pricing page changed.

Better Stack

August 27, 2026 Source
- Free for personal projects — free: Free
- Starts at just $29 — responder: USD 29 monthly · USD 29 / month with annual commitment

OpenStatus

August 27, 2026 Source
- Hobby: Free
- Starter: USD 30 monthly
- Pro: USD 100 monthly
- Scale: USD 500 monthly
- Enterprise: Contact sales