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 Instatus if teams who will stay on Starter Free forever at $0 (15 monitors, 2-minute checks, 5 members, 200 subscribers) while they publish a first status page, then
Best for
Better Stack A public status page you start at $0
Instatus A public status page 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
Instatus No free plan
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
Instatus Pro $20/mo
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
Instatus
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
Instatus Local or hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
Instatus Starter is 15 monitors and 2-minute checks
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
Instatus 2026-10-23 · instatus.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 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 pageteams who will stay on Starter Free forever at $0 (15 monitors, 2-minute checks, 5 members, 200 subscribers) while they publish a first status page, then Pro at $20/month when they need 50 monitors, 30s checks, and a custom domain.
Read the Instatus page
