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 Rootly if on-call teams who will buy Incident Response at $20 / user / month, then add On-Call at another $20 when they want Rootly to own the roster.
hosted uptime-plus-telemetry desk
hosted incident-and-on-call desk
Best for
Better Stack Monitors you start at $0
Rootly Incidents you pay per user
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
Rootly No free plan
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
Rootly Incident Response $20/user/mo
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
Rootly Startup discounts (“<100 employees / <$50m raised / <5 years”; “pay what you can <25 employees”) print as a form, not a dollar. $50
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
Rootly Hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
Rootly $20 is per user per product
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
Rootly 2026-10-23 · rootly.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 buy Incident Response at $20 / user / month, then add On-Call at another $20 when they want Rootly to own the roster.
Read the Rootly page