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 Vantage if finOps / platform teams who will stay on Starter Free (up to $2,500 cloud spend, 3 users) while they open a first Cost Report, then pay Pro at $30 / month (up to $7,500
hosted uptime-plus-telemetry desk
Best for
Better Stack Monitors you start at $0
Vantage Accrued-cost charts 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
Vantage $0 · up to $2,500 of cloud spend. 40+ providers. Email support. SAML SSO. 3 users
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
Vantage Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
Vantage
Coding agent
Better Stack
Vantage Agent + Tab inside the editor
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
Vantage Hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
Vantage Starter spend caps at $2,500
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
Vantage 2026-10-23 · vantage.sh/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 pagefinOps / platform teams who will stay on Starter Free (up to $2,500 cloud spend, 3 users) while they open a first Cost Report, then pay Pro at $30 / month (up to $7,500 spend) or Business at $200 / month (up to $20,000 spend).
Read the Vantage page