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Better Stack vs UptimeRobot
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Better Stack if…
- you work on Slack
- you're in its core audience: devops engineers, sre teams
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Choose UptimeRobot if…
- you want the lower entry price ($12/mo vs $25/mo)
- you're in its core audience: developers, devops teams
Side by side
Feature Better Stack UptimeRobot
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$25/mo$12/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Data retention—Kept only as long as necessary for policy purposes, unless law requires longer
Security and compliance—SOC 2
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, API, SlackWeb, iOS, Android, API
CategoryMonitoring & observabilityUptime monitoring & status pages
CompanyBetter Stack—
Full feature lists
B Better Stack
- Log management queryable with SQL, PromQL or drag & drop
- eBPF-based OpenTelemetry tracing with service map
- Error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs
- Uptime and Playwright-based transaction monitoring
- On-call scheduling with unlimited phone and SMS alerts
- Branded status pages on your own subdomain
- Slack-native AI SRE agent and MCP server
- Session replay, web vitals and product analytics
U UptimeRobot
- HTTP, keyword, ping, port, UDP and API monitors
- Cron job heartbeat monitoring
- SSL certificate and domain expiry alerts
- DNS record change monitoring
- Multi-location checks from four regions
- Second data center re-check to prevent false alerts
- Branded status pages with custom domain and subscribers
- Alerts via SMS, voice, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty and webhooks
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
Better Stack · betterstack.com
UptimeRobot · uptimerobot.comWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
| Team size | Better Stack | UptimeRobot |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $25 Telemetry Nano bundle | $12 Solo |
| 5 people | $25 Telemetry Nano bundle | $39 Team |
| 20 people | $25 Telemetry Nano bundle | $39 Team |
Work it out for your team
- UptimeRobotSolo$12/mo
- Better StackTelemetry Nano bundle$25/mo
The cheapest paid plan with a published price that fits. Custom and sales-quoted plans aren't included.
What the free plans include
Better Stack
Free plan limits aren't published.
UptimeRobot
- 50 monitors
- 5 min. monitoring interval
- Only 5 integrations
- Basic status pages
All plans and prices
Better Stack
Free$0
Responder$29/license/mo billed yearly ($34 monthly)
Telemetry Nano bundleFrom $25/mo billed yearly ($30 monthly)
Telemetry Micro bundleFrom $100/mo billed yearly ($120 monthly)
Telemetry Mega bundleFrom $210/mo billed yearly ($250 monthly)
Telemetry Tera bundleFrom $420/mo billed yearly ($500 monthly)
AI SREConsumption-based
UptimeRobot
Free$0/month
Solo$12/month billed annually ($13 monthly)
Team$39/month billed annually ($46 monthly)
Scale$79/month billed annually ($98 monthly)
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
Better Stack
- Free tier includes 10 monitors, a status page and 100,000 exceptions a month
- Unlimited phone and SMS alerts included with each responder license
- Option to store logs in your own S3 bucket
- 60-day money-back guarantee
- Status page add-ons like white-labeling and SSO cost $208–$250 per page per month
- Free tier retains logs and traces for only 3 days
- Pricing mixes licenses, bundles and usage fees, which takes effort to estimate
UptimeRobot
- Free plan includes 50 monitors for commercial use
- Wide range of monitor types including UDP, DNS and heartbeat
- Status pages included on every plan
- API, CLI and MCP access plus Android and iOS apps
- Free plan checks only every 5 minutes
- SSL monitoring only on paid plans
- SMS and voice credits not included on Free and don't renew
- Free plan has no login seats
More comparisons
Other options to consider
P
From $16.50/mo
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Website uptime, page speed, transaction and real user monitoring
Uptime monitoring & status pagesAPI
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SS
From $9.99/mo
Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 11, 2026. Editorial policy