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 Jam if product teams who will stay on Free at $0 (30 Jams, 5 Recording Links) while they open a first event timeline, then buy Team at $14 / creator / month yearly when they want
hosted uptime-plus-telemetry desk
Best for
Better Stack Monitors you start at $0
Jam A replay with console and events 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
Jam $0 · free for everyone. 30 Jams. 5 Recording Links. Unlimited viewer seats. Unlimited folders
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
Jam Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
Jam
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
Jam Hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
Jam Free is 30 Jams and 5 Recording Links
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
Jam 2026-10-23 · jam.dev/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 pageproduct teams who will stay on Free at $0 (30 Jams, 5 Recording Links) while they open a first event timeline, then buy Team at $14 / creator / month yearly when they want 15-minute recordings and 200 AI summaries.
Read the Jam page