Better Stack charges $29 a month for each person who gets alerts, plus $21 for every 50 monitors past the first 10. Uptimia Professional is $39 a month for eleven people and 100 monitors. Both billed yearly.
Better Stack costs less for one person with up to 10 monitors. With more people or monitors, Uptimia costs less, up to Professional's 100 monitors and 150 texts a month. Past that, Uptimia needs Enterprise.
For the same setup, Better Stack costs $332 a month and Uptimia $39.
Start free trial →Better Stack prices are in dollars; the euro view uses the ECB rate of 29 Sep 2026. Not counted: extra heartbeats, Playwright minutes and status page add-ons.
Better Stack bills each person who gets alerts. Ten people and 100 monitors cost $332 a month there, and $39 on Uptimia Professional.
Better Stack lists no blacklist or malware monitoring, and its web vitals come only from real visits. Uptimia checks blacklists, scans for malware and runs page-speed tests on a schedule, so it catches a slow page even with no visitors.
Better Stack includes one status page and charges monthly for each extra page, a password and removing its branding. Uptimia Professional includes 10, each with your domain, a password and email subscribers.
Uptimia Professional for the whole team against one Better Stack responder licence, prices billed yearly. Uptimia leads on 11 rows, Better Stack on 8, 12 are level.
| Feature | Uptimia Professional | Better Stack Responder licence |
|---|---|---|
| Check types | ||
| HTTP, keyword, ping, port, DNS, SSL and domain expiry | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Monitors in the price | 100 monitors (stronger offer) | 10 monitors50 more for $21 a month, billed yearly |
| Heartbeat (cron job) monitoring | 100 monitors (stronger offer) | 10 heartbeats10 more for $17 a month, billed yearly |
| No-code multi-step API chains | 10 monitors (stronger offer) | Via Playwright scriptsBilled as Playwright minutes |
| Browser transactions (login, checkout) | 10 advanced checksShared with page speed | ✓ Playwright checks100 minutes for $1 |
| Scheduled page speed with Core Web Vitals | 10 advanced checksShared with browser transactions (stronger offer) | Web vitals from real visitsNo scheduled page-speed test listed |
| Real user monitoring | ✓ 750,000 page views a month | ✓ Session replay and web events |
| Server monitoring (CPU, memory, disk) | 10 servers | ✓ Host metricsThrough the Better Stack collector |
| Blacklist and malware checks | 10 each (stronger offer) | ✗ Not listed |
| Logs, traces and error tracking | ✗ No | ✓ Yes (stronger offer) |
| Intervals and locations | ||
| Fastest check interval | 30 seconds1 minute on Basic | 30 seconds3 minutes on Free |
| Outage confirmed before alerting | ✓ Up to 3 other locations | ✓ Multi-step incident verification |
| Evidence captured at failure | ✓ Screenshot, headers, traceroute | ✓ Screenshots, traceroute and MTR |
| Alerting and on-call | ||
| Text alerts | 150 texts a month, renewing | ✓ UnlimitedFor each responder (stronger offer) |
| Phone-call alerts | ✗ No | ✓ UnlimitedFor each responder (stronger offer) |
| Chat and on-call channels | ✓ Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord, PagerDuty, webhooks and more | ✓ Slack, Teams, Zapier, webhooks, push |
| Escalation with acknowledgement | ✓ Yes | ✓ Incident escalations |
| On-call rotas and incident management | Through PagerDuty | ✓ Built inOn-call calendar, Slack /incident, Google and Outlook sync (stronger offer) |
| Phone app | ✗ No | ✓ iOS and Android (stronger offer) |
| Status pages | ||
| Status pages included | 10 (stronger offer) | 1Each extra page $12 a month, billed yearly |
| Password-protected status page | ✓ Included (stronger offer) | Add-on$42 a month per page, billed yearly |
| No vendor branding on the status page | ✓ Included (stronger offer) | White-label add-on$208 a month per page, billed yearly |
| Team and agency | ||
| People who get alerts | 11 people in the plan (stronger offer) | One per responder licence$29 a month each |
| Roles and audit log | ✓ 5 roles scoped by monitor group, audit log (stronger offer) | 5 roles, with access separated by teamAudit logs $208 a month, billed yearly |
| API and tooling | ||
| REST API | ✓ API v2 with OpenAPI spec | ✓ Yes |
| MCP server and Terraform provider | ✗ Not yet | ✓ Both (stronger offer) |
| AI agent that investigates incidents | ✗ No | ✓ AI SREBilled per token (stronger offer) |
| Data location and account | ||
| Where monitoring data is stored | ✓ EU data centres (France and Germany) | ✓ EU regions by defaultCompany in the United States |
| Two-factor sign-in | ✓ Authenticator app or email code | ✓ Two-factor authenticationGoogle sign-in included; Azure or Okta extra |
| Free trial | ✓ 30 days, no card (stronger offer) | ✗ No trial listed60-day money-back guarantee |
| Free plan | 1 monitor | 10 monitors3-minute checks, 1 status page (stronger offer) |
Run both for the first week. Cancel the responder licences once Uptimia has paged you.
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Weighing more than two tools? Better Stack alternatives
For a team that does not want to pay per person, yes. 100 monitors with ten people cost $39 a month on Uptimia and $332 on Better Stack, billed annually. Uptimia also adds blacklist and malware checks.
For on-call rotas, incident management and logs in one product, pick Better Stack.
Better Stack charges $29 a month per person who gets alerts ($34 month to month), with 10 monitors per licence and $21 for each 50 more.
Uptimia Professional is $39 a month, billed yearly, for eleven people and 100 monitors.
Yes. Better Uptime is now Better Stack's uptime product, which this page compares.
One is included. Each extra page is $12 a month, a password $42 and removing the branding $208 per page, billed yearly. Uptimia Professional includes 10.
Uptimia stores your data in EU data centres in France and Germany. Better Stack stores data in EU regions by default, but the company is based in the United States.
Not with a button yet. Email your monitor list to support@uptimia.com and we set it up for free.
30 days with every check type, no card.
bs-company "Your data is being processed by our company Better Stack, Inc., a Delaware corporation"; footer "© 2026 Better Stack, Inc." betterstack.com/privacy, betterstack.com/uptime, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-free Free for personal projects, $0/month: "10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page", "Slack & e-mail alerts". betterstack.com/pricing, betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-free-interval "Get 10 monitors, 10 heartbeats and a status page with 3-minute checks totally free." betterstack.com/uptime, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-responder Paid use "Starts at just $34" monthly / "$29" yearly and "Includes a single responder with unlimited phone call alerts". Users: Team member (Telemetry access) $0/month; Responder (Uptime + Telemetry) $34/month monthly, $29/month yearly, "per license per month", with "unlimited phone call and SMS alerts". betterstack.com/pricing, betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-uptime-pack Uptime monitoring: "10 monitors included"; "Additional 50 monitors" $25 per month (monthly) or $21 per month (yearly). betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-interval "Up to 30 seconds check frequency"; "our fastest 30-second checks"; Monitor API lists "check_frequency integer (30) Check frequency (in seconds). Check frequency must be at least the timeout value." (30 is shown as the example value, not called a default). betterstack.com/pricing.md, betterstack.com/uptime, betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/create-a-new-monitor, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-heartbeat-pack Heartbeats: "10 heartbeats included"; "Additional 10 heartbeats" $20 per month (monthly) or $17 per month (yearly); "Up to 1 second check resolution". betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-playwright Transaction monitoring (Playwright): "100 Playwright minutes" for $1; "Up to 30 seconds check frequency"; runs a real browser instance. betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-status-pages Status pages: 1 included; additional public status page $15 monthly / $12 yearly; custom CSS & JavaScript $15 / $12 per page; white-label $250 / $208 per page; password authentication $50 / $42 per page; 1,000 subscribers included; additional 1,000 subscribers $40 per month. betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-check-types Monitor types in the docs: Uptime (HTTP status), Keyword, Ping, Heartbeats, Playwright, API, DNS, Domain expiration, SSL certificate, TCP/UDP port; API monitor_type values also include smtp, pop, imap. Pricing page lists POP3/IMAP/SMTP, TLD expiration, DNS server and ping monitoring. No blacklist or malware monitoring is listed on the pricing page or docs index. betterstack.com/docs/uptime/uptime-monitor, betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/create-a-new-monitor, betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-api-monitor "APIs can be monitored by creating an HTTP status-code monitor or a keyword monitor." betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api-monitor, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-pricing-products Pricing page products: logs & traces, metrics ("Visualize metrics with ready-made dashboards. Generate metrics from logs or collect them via Prometheus or OpenTelemetry."), error tracking, session replay and web events (real user monitoring, web vitals), uptime, Playwright, heartbeats. Uptime features: push, e-mail, Slack, MS Teams, Zapier, webhooks, REST API, Terraform provider, multi-location & geo-specific checks, status pages; on-call: iOS & Android apps; logs: MCP server. betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-collector "Better Stack collector is an open source bundle of the best open source tools for collecting telemetry available": OpenTelemetry, Vector, OBI (eBPF sensor), "Prometheus exporters, metrics sensors for popular databases"; installed on the host with an install.sh script; troubleshooting step "Disable Host metrics". betterstack.com/docs/logs/collector, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-regions Monitor API `regions`: "Allowed values are ['us', 'eu', 'as', 'au'] or any subset of these regions." betterstack.com/docs/uptime/api/create-a-new-monitor, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-security-pricing Security: Single Sign-On with Google included; SSO with Azure or Okta $5 per user per month; generic SAML SSO enterprise; audit logs $250 monthly / $208 yearly. Features list: "Role-based access control", "Team-level isolation", "Two-factor authentication", "2FA enforcement", "SSO enforcement", "SCIM". betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-security "Better Stack is SOC2 Type 2 compliant." "By default, all data is stored in the EU regions in GDPR-compliant DIN ISO/IEC 27001-certified data centers." betterstack.com/security, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-guarantee "Try Better Stack today risk-free with our 60-day money-back guarantee." No free trial of paid features is offered on the pricing page (a free tier is). betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-enterprise Enterprise-ready: "Reach out for a custom quote." betterstack.com/pricing, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-ai-sre AI SRE: "Slack-native AI SRE agent that investigates incidents", billed per million input/output tokens by model; AI post-mortems listed under incident management. betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-oncall On-call & incident management: "On-call scheduling & alerting is built-in"; "On-call calendar & scheduling", "Advanced incident escalations", "Call routing" ("Route incoming phone calls to the current on-call person"), "Slack incident management", "/incident command", "Google & Outlook calendar integration", "iOS & Android apps". betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-uptime-diagnostics Uptime monitoring features: "Screenshots of errors", "Traceroute & MTR diagnosis", "Multi-step incident verification", "Multi-location & Geo-specific checks". betterstack.com/pricing.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-better-uptime https://betteruptime.com/ and https://betterstack.com/better-uptime answer HTTP 301 with location https://betterstack.com/uptime (the Better Stack uptime monitoring product page). betteruptime.com, betterstack.com/uptime, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-playwright-api Playwright monitor docs, "Using Playwright to monitor APIs": "You can call your API directly using `fetch` and use custom Javascript to verify the results"; the "Exporting metadata from your scenario" example chains two calls (GET /coffee, then GET /coffee/${first.id} with the id read from the first response) in one scenario. betterstack.com/docs/uptime/playwright-monitor, betterstack.com/docs/uptime/playwright-monitor.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.bs-roles "There are 5 default roles to choose from." Admin, Billing admin, Team lead, Responder and Member; "Admin, Team lead, and Responder each consume a responder license." Member "Cannot access monitors, incidents, on-call schedules, or status pages." betterstack.com/docs/uptime/team-management/manage-roles, checked 12 Oct 2026.ecb-rate Euro reference rate $1.1355 to €1, European Central Bank, 29 Sep 2026. Used only to convert dollar add-ons in the euro view. www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html, checked 30 Sep 2026.