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Small and mid-size teams that want uptime monitoring, on-call, incident management and status pages in one tool, paying only for the people who get paged.

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Quick overview

Pricing
Free; responder licenses from $29/month (annual)
Plans
Free: 10 monitors, 10 heartbeats and 1 status page with 3-minute checks, Slack and email alerts. Responder license: $34/month, or $29/month billed annually, covering uptime monitoring, on-call, incident management and status pages with unlimited phone and SMS alerts; other team members are free. Extra monitors: $21 per 50/month (annual; $25 monthly). Extra heartbeats: $17 per 10/month (annual; $20 monthly). Extra status pages: $12/month (annual; $15 monthly); password protection, white-label and SSO on status pages are paid add-ons. Slack- and Teams-native channel workflows: $9 per responder/month. Checks as often as every 30 seconds; Playwright transaction checks are billed by the minute. 60-day money-back guarantee.
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Key features

  • Uptime, SSL, DNS, ping and Playwright transaction monitoring
  • On-call calendar, escalations and iOS and Android apps
  • Unlimited phone and SMS alerts on responder licenses
  • Status pages with custom domains
  • AI post-mortems and incident timeline

Pros

  • Monitoring, on-call and status pages in one product
  • Unlimited phone and SMS alerts on paid licenses
  • Only responders pay; other team members are free
  • Generous free monitoring tier

Cons

  • Many add-ons make the total bill harder to predict
  • Channel-based Slack and Teams workflows cost $9 per responder extra
  • Not HIPAA compliant, per Better Stack's FAQ

Better Stack in our comparisons

Automation & Integration

Best Incident Management Software

incident.io is the best incident management software for most engineering teams: Slack- and Teams-native response, a free plan, and $25/user/month for Team plus on-call on annual billing. PagerDuty suits large on-call organizations, Better Stack is the best value if you also need uptime monitoring, and Jira Service Management is the natural move off Opsgenie.

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Sarah ChenUpdated October 2026
Automation & Integration

Best Uptime Monitoring Tools

Pick UptimeRobot if you want the most monitors for the least money. Pick Better Stack if an outage needs to page someone on call and update a status page.

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Sarah ChenUpdated October 2026