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 Uptime Kuma if operators who will self-host at $0 (Docker / binary) while they add a first louislam.net monitor, not a hosted Business $ we would invent.
Best for
Better Stack A public status page you start at $0
Uptime Kuma A Docker/local status desk you run 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
Uptime Kuma $0 · mIT license. Docker / non-Docker install on the README
Lowest paid
Better Stack Uptime overage $25/mo
Uptime Kuma Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Better Stack Telemetry Nano (Europe) $30/mo
Uptime Kuma
Runs where
Better Stack Hosted
Uptime Kuma Local or hosted
Watch out
Better Stack Free is 10 monitors and 3 GB / 3 days
Uptime Kuma You run the box
Last checked
Better Stack 2026-10-23 · betterstack.com/pricing
Uptime Kuma 2026-10-23 · uptime.kuma.pet
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 self-host at $0 (Docker / binary) while they add a first louislam.net monitor, not a hosted Business $ we would invent.
Read the Uptime Kuma page
