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 Honeycomb if platform teams who will stay on Free forever at 20M events and 2 Triggers while they run a first Query Builder, then buy Pro at $150/month when they need 50M events,
hosted uptime-plus-telemetry desk
hosted observability-query desk
Best for
Better Stack Monitors you start at $0
Honeycomb Wide-event queries 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
Honeycomb $0 · free forever. Up to 20M events/month and 100M time-series data points. 2 Triggers. Distributed tracing, BubbleUp, OpenTelemetry, team query history, permalinks
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
Honeycomb Refinery as a Service $0.10
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
Honeycomb Pro $150/mo
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
Honeycomb Hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
Honeycomb Free is 20M events and 2 Triggers
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
Honeycomb 2026-10-23 · honeycomb.io/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 pageplatform teams who will stay on Free forever at 20M events and 2 Triggers while they run a first Query Builder, then buy Pro at $150/month when they need 50M events, 100 Triggers, and 2 SLOs.
Read the Honeycomb page