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title: "Better Stack pricing 2026 — plans, limits, gotchas"
description: "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…"
canonical: "https://lemwatch.com/pricing/better-stack"
source: "https://lemwatch.com"
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# Better Stack pricing explained

> 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…

## Plans

- 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. 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

## Free tier

 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.

## What to watch out for

- 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.

 Figures verified on 2026-08-04 against [Better Stack's pricing page](https://betterstack.com/pricing).


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