Our take
Pick Better Stack if on-call teams who will stay on Free at $0 (10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 GB logs) while they open a first monitor, then buy a Responder seat at $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly) when someone has to be paged. Pick FireHydrant if on-call teams who will stay on Free (10 responders, 2 runbooks) while they open a first Timeline, then buy Pro at $25 / responder / month billed annually when they
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Best for
Better Stack Monitors you start at $0
FireHydrant Command-center notes you start at $0
Free plan
Better Stack $0 · /month. 10 monitors & heartbeats. 1 status page. Slack & email alerts. 100,000 exceptions/month. 5,000 session replays. 3 GB logs and traces retained 3 days. 30 GB metrics. 3 GB web events / 3 days
FireHydrant No free plan
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
FireHydrant Pro $25/mo yearly
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
FireHydrant
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
FireHydrant Hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
FireHydrant Free is 10 responders and 2 runbooks
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
FireHydrant 2026-10-23 · firehydrant.com/pricing
on-call teams who will stay on Free at $0 (10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 GB logs) while they open a first monitor, then buy a Responder seat at $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly) when someone has to be paged.
Read the Better Stack pageon-call teams who will stay on Free (10 responders, 2 runbooks) while they open a first Timeline, then buy Pro at $25 / responder / month billed annually when they want a service catalog and unlimited public status pages.
Read the FireHydrant page