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 Status page Structure, then buy a Responder seat at $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly) when someone has to be paged. Pick Cronitor if operators who will stay on Hacker at $0 forever (5 monitors, email alerts, one basic status page) while they open a first Jobs list, then Business at
Best for
Better Stack A public status page you start at $0
Cronitor A cron/job list you start at a public $
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
Cronitor $0 · forever. 5 monitors. Email alerts. 1 dashboard user. 1 basic status page (50 subscribers)
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
Cronitor Synthetics $1
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
Cronitor SAML $5/user/mo
Coding agent
Better Stack
Cronitor Job cards
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
Cronitor Hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
Cronitor Hacker is 5 monitors
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
Cronitor 2026-10-23 · cronitor.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 Status page Structure, then buy a Responder seat at $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly) when someone has to be paged.
Read the Better Stack pageoperators who will stay on Hacker at $0 forever (5 monitors, email alerts, one basic status page) while they open a first Jobs list, then Business at $2/month per monitor plus $5/month per user when they need more than five jobs — not Enterprise from $6,000/year unless they need a quoted contract.
Read the Cronitor page
