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 OpenStatus if small teams who will stay on Hobby $0 (1 monitor, 1 status page, 10-minute interval, no card) while they publish a first page, then buy Starter at $30/month (14-day
hosted uptime-plus-telemetry desk
Best for
Better Stack Monitors you start at $0
OpenStatus Monitors you start on Hobby at $0 (1 monitor, 1 page)
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
OpenStatus $0 · no card. 1 monitor. 1 status page with 3 components. Minimum interval 10 minutes
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
OpenStatus Pro $100/mo
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
OpenStatus Scale $500/mo
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
OpenStatus
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
OpenStatus Hobby is 1 monitor and a 10-minute interval
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
OpenStatus 2026-10-22 · openstatus.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 pagesmall teams who will stay on Hobby $0 (1 monitor, 1 status page, 10-minute interval, no card) while they publish a first page, then buy Starter at $30/month (14-day trial) when they need 20 monitors and a 1-minute check.
Read the OpenStatus page