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 incident.io if on-call teams who will stay on Basic Free forever while they open a first Insights hours table, then buy Team at $19 / user / month ($15 yearly) when they want
hosted uptime-plus-telemetry desk
Best for
Better Stack Monitors you start at $0
incident.io Incidents, on-call, and time-spent 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
incident.io No free plan
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
incident.io Team $19
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
incident.io On-call (standalone row) $20
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
incident.io Hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
incident.io Basic Free is single-team on-call
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
incident.io 2026-10-23 · incident.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 pageon-call teams who will stay on Basic Free forever while they open a first Insights hours table, then buy Team at $19 / user / month ($15 yearly) when they want multi-team on-call and workflows.
Read the incident.io page