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Better Stack vs Pagerly

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.

USD · US · source: betterstack.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Free
Free

Free for personal projects $0 per month

Flat · per month Standalone · Free
Responder Highlighted
USD 34 monthly · USD 29 / month with annual commitment

Starts at just $34 Starts at just $29 Includes a single responder with unlimited phone call alerts so that you can leverage the entire platform. Unlimited team members Free access to Telemetry. $0 per member per month $34 $29 per license per month

Seat · per license per month Standalone · Starting at
Enterprise
Contact sales

Reach out for a custom quote.

Other Standalone · Contact sales

USD · US · source: www.pagerly.io

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Basic
USD 19 monthly · USD 15.83 / month with annual commitment

Basic — $19 per team per month or $190 per team per year; annual billing gives 2 months free

Unit · per team per month or per team per year Standalone · Fixed
Starter Highlighted
USD 39 monthly · USD 32.5 / month with annual commitment

Starter — $39 per team per month or $390 per team per year; annual billing gives 2 months free; 25% off Starter with code ONCALL2026 through August 31

Unit · per team per month or per team per year Standalone · Fixed
Enterprise
Contact sales

Enterprise — Custom; talk to us

Unit · custom per-team pricing 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

Highlights

Monitors & heartbeats

10

Included

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Status pages

1

Included

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Alerts

Slack & e-mail

Included

Highlights

Exceptions

100,000 per month

Included

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Session replays

5,000

Included

Highlights

Logs

3 GB retained for 3 days

Included

Highlights

Traces

3 GB retained for 3 days

Included

Highlights

Metrics

30 GB

Included

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Web events

3 GB retained for 3 days

Included

Responder

Highlights

Responders

1 included

Included

Highlights

Team members

Unlimited

Included

Highlights

Telemetry

Free access

Included

Highlights

Phone call and SMS alerts

Unlimited

Included

Highlights

Incident management, on-call, monitoring and status pages

Included

Enterprise

Highlights

Custom cluster deployment

Included

Highlights

Custom Telemetry data residency

Included

Highlights

Custom VPC deployment

Included

Highlights

Generic SAML SSO

Included

Pagerly

Basic

Plan card

Round-robin rotations

Included

Plan card

Slack user-group synchronization with the on-call schedule

Included

Plan card

Rotations and schedules created inside Pagerly

Included

Plan card

Schedule overrides

Included

Plan card

Rotation-change reminders

Included

Plan card

Mention or group multiple rotations

Included

Optional add-on

Optional on-call paging

$4 per responder per month; Basic or Starter only; charged only for responders in the paging rota

Limited

Optional add-on

Call, SMS and email until acknowledgement

Included

Optional add-on

Escalation policies

L1 to L2 to L3

Included

Optional add-on

Automatic incidents from AWS, Datadog, Sentry and 40+ tools

Included

Optional add-on

Android and macOS push-alert apps

Included

Optional add-on

MTTA and MTTR tracked per incident

Included

Starter

Plan card

Everything in Basic

Included

Plan card

PagerDuty and Opsgenie schedule synchronization

Included

Plan card

Status pages on a custom domain

Included

Plan card

Task management and auto-assigned tickets

Included

Plan card

Jira, PagerDuty and Opsgenie two-way synchronization

Included

Feature comparison

Slack channels created from rotations

Included

Optional add-on

Optional on-call paging

$4 per responder per month; Basic or Starter only; charged only for responders in the paging rota

Limited

Optional add-on

Call, SMS and email until acknowledgement

Included

Optional add-on

Escalation policies

L1 to L2 to L3

Included

Optional add-on

Automatic incidents from AWS, Datadog, Sentry and 40+ tools

Included

Optional add-on

Android and macOS push-alert apps

Included

Optional add-on

MTTA and MTTR tracked per incident

Included

Enterprise

Plan card

Everything in Starter

Included

Plan card

Customized Slack workflows

Included

Plan card

Customized incident response and bot

Included

Plan card

Automated workflows built on request

Included

Plan card

Two-way message and ticket-status synchronization

Included

Plan card

White-labeled Pagerly Slack bot

Included

How their prices changed

Each date shows when a public price was observed, not when it took effect. An archived region or currency can differ, so a currency change is not necessarily a price increase.

Better Stack

    • Free: Free
    • Responder: USD 34 monthly · USD 29 / month with annual commitment
    • Enterprise: Contact sales
    • Free for personal projects — free: Free
    • Starts at just $29 — responder: USD 29 monthly · USD 29 / month with annual commitment

Pagerly

    • Basic: USD 19 monthly · USD 15.83 / month with annual commitment
    • Starter: USD 39 monthly · USD 32.5 / month with annual commitment
    • Enterprise: Contact sales