📄 markdown🕑 68d ago🛠️ DevTools🧱 18 services
Better Stack
betterstack.com ↗Pricing mixes per-seat licenses, bundled telemetry tiers, and many metered dimensions per service with regional rates and optional add-ons. Given the broad platform scope (monitoring, telemetry, incident management, and warehouse), costs can vary with seats, region, data volumes, retention, and selected add-ons, with annual discounts affecting totals.
model: gpt-5
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Pricing clarity
A bit fiddly
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Agent easiness
Breezy for bots
How we scored it 🧮
Every page starts at 100. Each kind of complexity subtracts points — here's the math.
🧾 Pricing clarity
53- Base score+100
- 4 in-plan configuration choices-2
- 15 add-ons / extras-16
- 62 metered dimensions to track-26
- Spans 18 distinct services to navigate-10
- Plan breadth is reasonable for a 18-service platform+7
- Total53 / 100
🤖 Agent easiness
100- Base score+100
- Total100 / 100
The pricing tree 🌳
tap any branch to explore💳 Hybrid💱 $🪜 3 tiers🧩 15 add-ons
The tiers 🪜
Users - Team member (Telemetry access)
$0
per month
Users - Responder (Uptime + Telemetry)
$34
per month
Free Tier
$0
per month
- Monitors & heartbeats10
- Status pages1
- Exceptions100,000 per month
- Session replays5,000
- Logs retention3 GB for 3 days
- Traces retention3 GB for 3 days
- ✦Slack & e-mail alerts
Add-ons & extras 🧩
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Status pages - Additional public status page · $15 per month (monthly), $12 per month (yearly)
Extra public status page beyond the 1 included.
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Status pages - Custom CSS & JavaScript · $15 per page per month (monthly), $12 per page per month (yearly)
Enable custom CSS & JavaScript on a status page.
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Status pages - White-label · $250 per page per month (monthly), $208 per page per month (yearly)
Remove Better Stack branding from a status page.
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Status pages - Password authentication · $50 per page per month (monthly), $42 per page per month (yearly)
Protect a status page with a password.
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Status pages - IP allowlisting · $250 per page per month (monthly), $208 per page per month (yearly)
Restrict access to a status page by IP allowlist.
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Status pages - Single Sign-On · $250 per page per month (monthly), $208 per page per month (yearly)
Enable SSO authentication for a status page.
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Status pages - Additional subscribers · $40 per additional 1,000 subscribers per month
Increase subscriber limit beyond 1,000 included.
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Status pages - Send e-mails from your own domain · $250 per page per month (monthly), $208 per page per month (yearly)
Use a custom domain for outgoing status page emails.
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Call routing - Per phone number · $250 per month (monthly), $208 per month (yearly)
Route incoming phone calls to current on-call and create incidents.
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Logs & Traces - Host data in your own bucket · $250 per month (monthly), $208 per month (yearly)
Store telemetry data in your own object storage bucket.
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Warehouse - Host data in your own bucket · $250 per month (monthly), $208 per month (yearly)
Store warehouse data in your own object storage bucket.
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Reporting & analytics · $5 per member per month (monthly), $4 per member per month (yearly)
Advanced reporting and analytics features.
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Security - Single Sign-On with Azure · $5 per user per month
SSO integration with Azure.
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Security - Single Sign-On with Okta · $5 per user per month
SSO integration with Okta.
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Security - Audit logs · $250 per month (monthly), $208 per month (yearly)
Access to audit logs.
Watch out for 🕵️
- ⚠️Per-seat responder licenses priced monthly with a lower yearly rate
- ⚠️Many metered usage dimensions across services (AI tokens, incident management per responder, monitors, heartbeats, transaction minutes, logs/traces/web events ingestion and retention by region, query scan, metrics retention, error/session overages, warehouse ingestion/retention, querying tiers)
- ⚠️Regional price variation for multiple meters (Europe, US East/West, Singapore)
- ⚠️Telemetry bundle choices with region-based pricing and varying included quotas
- ⚠️Numerous paid add-ons (status page features per page, additional subscribers, call routing per number, host-your-own-bucket, reporting per member, SSO per user, audit logs)
- ⚠️Per-page and per-subscriber scaling for status pages
- ⚠️Annual vs monthly pricing differentials across bundles, add-ons, and options