Better Stack alternativeCompare the bill

Your whole team. One flat plan.

Monitoring, status pages and on-call without a license per responder. $74/mo covers 10 seats, 250 monitors and 3 status pages.

20 monitors free. No credit card required.

Hyperping dashboard showing six healthy monitors, 100% uptime and response times in a demo workspace. Hyperping dashboard showing six healthy monitors, 100% uptime and response times in a demo workspace.
Acme public status page showing all six services operational and 90 days of uptime history. Demo data. Acme public status page showing all six services operational and 90 days of uptime history. Demo data.

Trusted by teams that put uptime first.

Read customer stories

We’re on watch

Checks run today
28,480,000
Active monitors
19,600
Outages caught today
6,100
Alerts sent today
24,400
Heartbeats received today
160,000
Live status pages
1,700

Five responders. A third of the bill.

USD list prices · annual billing on both sides

Better Stack

Priced per responder, then per add-on.

5 responders
  • Responder licenses5 × $29, billed annually
    $145/mo
  • Monitor packs2 × 50 monitors, past the 10 included
    $42/mo
  • Extra status pages2 more pages at $12 each
    $24/mo
  • Browser checksPlaywright, billed by runtime
    $1/100 min
Before usage and add-ons

$211/month

$2,532 over 12 months

One plan, one line on the invoice.

Pro
  • 10 seats
  • 250 monitors, 30-second checks
  • 3 public or private status pages
  • On-call & escalations
  • 10 Playwright browser checks
  • 20 server agents
Billed yearly, nothing metered

$74/month

$890 over 12 months
65% less

Keep $137 a month, $1,642 a year, before Better Stack bills a Playwright minute or a private page.

Compare every plan
Pricing sources & assumptions

Better Stack prices read on its pricing page on , in USD.

  • Responder license (Uptime + Telemetry): $29 per month billed annually, $34 on monthly billing.
  • Uptime: 10 monitors included, then $21 per 50 monitors and $17 per 10 heartbeats a month. Playwright checks: $1 per 100 minutes.
  • Status pages: 1 included, then $12 per page a month. Password protection $42 a month; white label, IP allowlisting, SSO and audit logs $208 a month each.
  • Hyperping Pro: $74 per month billed yearly ($890 a year), $89 on monthly billing, with 10 seats and $9 per month for each extra seat.

List prices at annual billing. Better Stack’s total leaves out password protection, heartbeats, Playwright minutes, extra subscribers and the reporting add-on, which depend on your setup.

Hyperping vs. Better Stack, line by line.

Swipe to compare

Hyperping Pro and Better Stack with five responders compared. USD list prices, billed annually.
Team of 5, list pricesUSD, billed annuallyPro · $74/moBetter StackResponder · $29/mo each
Pricing
Pricing model
Flat plan10 seats, 250 monitors and 3 status pages in Pro
Per responder + add-ons$29/responder/mo annual, $34 monthly
5 responders, 100 monitors, 3 status pages
$74/moAll of it included in Pro
$211/mo5 licenses, 2 monitor packs, 2 extra pages
One more person on call
$9/seatAfter the 10 seats in Pro
$29/responderMembers who never take a page are free
Bill predictability
FixedPlan price plus any extra seats
Add-on drivenPacks, pages, Playwright minutes and subscribers
Where they differ
Uptime monitors
25030-second checks from 18 regions
10 includedThen $21/mo per 50
Status pages
3Each on its own custom domain
1 includedThen $12/mo per page
Private status pages
IncludedPassword or email access codes, on Pro
+$42/moPassword protection add-on
Playwright browser checks
10 includedEvery 5 minutes, no minutes to count
$1/100 minBilled by runtime
Cron job heartbeats
IncludedHealthchecks on every plan
10 includedThen $17/mo per 10
MTTA, MTTR and uptime reports
IncludedReporting dashboard and CSV export
$4/member/moReporting add-on
White labeling and audit logs
In Business$249/mo with 10 status pages and 20 seats
+$208/mo eachOn top of responder licenses
Server monitoring
20 agentsCPU, memory, disk and network, $2/mo per extra server
Telemetry bundleHost metrics billed with logs and traces
Phone and SMS alerts
IncludedPhone calls on every paid plan, 75 SMS credits a month on Pro
IncludedUnlimited, with each responder license
Logs
20 GB/mo on ProThen $0.25/GB, 30 days of search. In alpha
$0.10/GBEU region, 30 days. $0.15/GB in the US
Traces and error tracking
Not includedNot part of the product
IncludedPart of the Better Stack suite
What both do
HTTP, keyword, ping, port, SSL and DNS checks
Included
Included
Failures confirmed from other regions before alerting
IncludedOn every plan, free included
Included
On-call schedules and escalation policies
Included3 schedules on Pro
Included
Status page subscribers
Included1,000 on Pro, by email, SMS, Slack or Teams
Included1,000 included, then $40/mo per 1,000
Maintenance windows
Included
Included
Slack, Teams, PagerDuty and webhook alerts
Included
Included

Only used the uptime half? Start with 20 monitors, free.

Get started free
Alma

For teams who can’t
afford downtime.

Read the story
“Hyperping’s reputation in our company is that it’s more reactive than Datadog. We usually get notifications from Hyperping before Datadog.”
Fabrice GregoireSite Reliability Engineer, Alma

Everything in the plan. Nothing to top up.

  • team · 5 → 8 on callPro · 10 seats included

    Grow the rotation, not the invoice

    Pro includes 10 seats, and anyone can join the on-call schedule. The eleventh person is $9 a month, not another $29 license.

    On-call
  • monitors · 100 → 180Pro · 250 included

    Add monitors without buying packs

    Pro checks 250 endpoints every 30 seconds from 18 regions. A new service gets a monitor the day it ships, with nothing to top up.

    Uptime monitoring
  • status.acme.com · privateaccess code sent

    Private status pages in the plan

    Each of the 3 status pages on Pro can be public or private, behind a password or email access codes, on your own domain. No $42 add-on.

    Private status pages
  • api.acme.com · timeout (FRA)confirmed from 3 regions · paged

    Confirmed before anyone wakes up

    A failed check is re-run from the other regions you picked. Only a confirmed outage opens an incident and runs your escalation policy.

    Escalation policies
  • checkout flow · Playwrightpassed · every 5 min

    Browser checks without a meter

    Pro runs 10 Playwright scripts every 5 minutes, login or checkout included. You never estimate runtime minutes for next month.

    Browser checks
  • prod-web-01 · silent for 90 soutage opened · on-call paged

    Your servers, in the same plan

    Pro includes 20 server agents reporting CPU, memory, disk and network every 30 seconds. A server that goes quiet pages on-call like a failed check.

    Server monitoring

Moved over in an afternoon.

Or in none of yours: the Hyperping team migrates you for free, usually within 48 hours.

# Monitors
curl "https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/monitors" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BETTERSTACK_TOKEN"

# Heartbeats
curl "https://uptime.betterstack.com/api/v2/heartbeats" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BETTERSTACK_TOKEN"
Better Stack API

Pull your monitors out.

Better Stack has no CSV export of monitor settings, so list your monitors and heartbeats from its Uptime API with a team token.

Read the migration guide
resource "hyperping_monitor" "website" {
  name            = "Website"
  url             = "https://acme.com"
  protocol        = "http"
  check_frequency = 30
  regions         = ["paris", "frankfurt", "london"]
}
TerraformCommunity provider

Recreate them as code.

Declare every monitor with the Develeap provider and review the move in one pull request. Heartbeats become healthchecks with a ping URL.

Explore the provider
curl -X POST \
  https://api.hyperping.io/v1/monitors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Checkout API",
    "url": "https://api.acme.com/health",
    "check_frequency": 30
  }'
REST API

Run both, then switch.

Loop over your export with the API, rebuild on-call schedules and escalation policies, and keep Better Stack running for a few days. When the alerts match, move your status page domain and subscribers.

Explore the API

What each one costs to run. And when Better Stack is worth it.

  1. 01

    Five responders, priced both ways

    Better Stack: five responder licenses at $29 come to $145 a month. 100 monitors need two 50-monitor packs past the 10 included, $42, and two more status pages add $24. That is $211 a month before Playwright minutes, and $253 if one page must be private.

    Hyperping: Pro at $74 a month includes 10 seats, 250 monitors with 30-second checks, 3 public or private status pages, 10 browser checks, on-call and 20 server agents. An eleventh teammate is $9 a month.

    Smaller team? Essentials is $24 a month with 3 seats, 50 monitors, a status page on your domain and on-call. Every plan is on pricing.

  2. 02

    Where the Better Stack bill moves

    The responder line grows with the team, one $29 license per person who takes a page. The rest is sold by the pack: $21 per 50 monitors, $17 per 10 heartbeats, $12 per extra status page, $40 per extra 1,000 subscribers, $1 per 100 Playwright minutes.

    Then come the add-ons: password protection at $42 a month, reporting at $4 per member, and white labeling, IP allowlisting or SSO on status pages, or audit logs, at $208 a month each. The Better Stack pricing breakdown walks through each one.

    Hyperping sells plans. Seats, monitors, status pages and browser checks come with the plan, and the one line that grows by itself is a seat past the included ones, $9 a month on Pro.

  3. 03

    When Better Stack is the right call

    Better Stack is an observability suite. If you want traces, error tracking and session replays in the same place as your uptime checks, it does that and Hyperping does not.

    Each responder license also comes with unlimited phone and SMS alerts, where Hyperping Pro includes 75 SMS credits a month. A team that pages by text all night will notice.

    Logs are the closer call. Hyperping now takes them too, in alpha: 20 GB a month on Pro, then $0.25 per GB, against $0.10 per GB on Better Stack in the EU. Past a few hundred GB a month, its lower price per GB outweighs the responder licenses, so a team that sends terabytes of logs should stay.

    If you bought the suite for the monitors, the status page and the rotation, you are paying for the half you never open.

  4. 04

    Bottom line

    Most teams looking for a Better Stack alternative never used the telemetry. They use the monitors, the status page and on-call, and pay per responder with packs and add-ons on top.

    That setup is $74 a month on Hyperping, one plan on one line of the invoice, logs included up to 20 GB, and we move it over for free. If you need traces and error tracking, Better Stack is the better product. If you don’t, you are paying for one.

Hyperping vs. Better Stack, your questions.

How much does Better Stack cost for a team of 5?

At annual rates, five responder licenses are $145 a month. With 100 monitors and 3 status pages the total reaches $211 a month, before Playwright minutes and add-ons such as password protection at $42. Hyperping Pro is $74 a month with 10 seats, 250 monitors, 3 public or private status pages, 10 browser checks and on-call. The Better Stack pricing breakdown has every line.

What is a Better Stack responder license?

A responder is a team member who can be alerted and take part in on-call. Better Stack bills each one $29 a month on annual billing, $34 monthly, and members who never respond are free. Hyperping counts seats instead: 10 on Pro, then $9 a month each.

What is a cheaper alternative to Better Stack?

For uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call, Hyperping Pro is $74 a month billed yearly with 10 seats, 250 monitors and 3 status pages, where the same setup on Better Stack is $211. The free plan has 20 monitors and a status page. For a wider shortlist, see the best Better Stack alternatives.

How do I migrate from Better Stack to Hyperping?

Export your monitors and heartbeats from Better Stack’s Uptime API, recreate them in Hyperping by hand, with the API or with Terraform, then rebuild your on-call schedules and escalation policies. Run both side by side for a few days before you move your status page domain. Or let the Hyperping team do it for free, usually within 48 hours. See the migration guide.

Can I make a status page private without an add-on?

Yes. Each of the 3 status pages on Hyperping Pro can be public or private, protected by a password or by email access codes. On Better Stack, password protection is a $42 a month add-on. See private status pages.

Does Hyperping prevent false alerts like Better Stack?

Yes. When a check fails, Hyperping re-runs it from the other regions you selected and alerts only once the failure is confirmed. Verification runs on every plan, the free one included, so a network blip in one location never wakes your team.

Does Hyperping do logs like Better Stack?

Yes, in alpha since October 2026. Send logs over OpenTelemetry, a Vercel drain, syslog or HTTP, search them for 30 days, and find the matching lines inside every incident. Pro includes 20 GB a month, then each GB costs $0.25. Better Stack charges $0.10 per GB in the EU and $0.15 in the US, plus a responder license per person on call. Hyperping has no tracing or error tracking. See logs pricing.

Still comparing? Hyperping against the rest of your shortlist.

Monitoring, status pages and on-call. One flat plan.