Better Stack pricing: what it actually costs
Every number below comes from Better Stack’s own published pricing page, read on 4 August 2026. Vendors change plans without notice — check the source link before you buy.
Direct answer
How much does Better Stack cost?
Better Stack has a free plan with 10 monitors, then charges modularly: about $25/mo per 10 extra monitors at 30-second checks, $20/mo per 10 heartbeats, and $34/mo ($29 annually) per on-call responder seat, with SSO and white-label status pages priced separately.
- Free plan: Better Stack's free plan is $0/mo with no card: 10 monitors or heartbeats and 1 status page, on a roughly 3-minute check interval.
- Entry paid tier: Monitors (per 10) at $25/mo (30-second checks).
- Top tier is quote-only — no public enterprise price.
Better Stack plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 10 monitors or heartbeats, 1 status page, around 3-minute checks |
| Monitors (per 10) | $25/mo | Each block of 10 extra monitors at 30-second checks with unlimited phone and SMS alerts |
| Responder seat | $34/mo$29/mo billed annually | One on-call / incident-management licence; read-only members are free |
| Status page white-label | $250/mo | Fully branded status page; audit logs are a separate $250/mo line |
Source: Better Stack pricing page — read 4 August 2026.
What the sticker price leaves out
There is no simple three-tier plan — you assemble a bill from units: $25 per 10 monitors, $20 per 10 heartbeats, $34 per responder seat, plus per-GB ingestion for logs, metrics and traces.
On-call and incident management is charged per seat on top of monitoring, so a five-person rota adds $170/mo before you have monitored anything extra.
Status page white-labelling, password protection, IP allowlisting and SSO are each priced separately, between roughly $42 and $250 a month per feature.
Annual billing shaves about 15–22% depending on the product line, so the monthly figures on the page are the worst case rather than the going rate.
The same job on Lemwatch
Lemwatch is free for 10 sites with all check types, then $19/mo for 50 sites (Pro) and $59/mo for 150 sites (Agency).
Better Stack starts at $25/mo. Lemwatch starts at $19/mo for 50 sites and bundles uptime, SSL, DNS, SEO and visual change detection into one plan instead of charging per capability — so the comparison worth running is total spend for your whole site list, not headline price.
Better Stack pricing questions
Watching more than 10 sites?
Lemwatch is free for 10 sites with every check type included — uptime, SSL, DNS, SEO and visual diffs — then $19/mo for 50 sites.