Better Stack alternatives
Every error tracking and observability provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Better Stack's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Better Stack's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Grafana Cloudvs Better StackEntry paid plan: $19/month platform fee for Pro, which includes 10,000 active series before usage billing…
- Sentryvs Better StackEntry paid plan: $26/month for Team, the cheapest paid plan
- Axiomvs Better StackKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- GlitchTipvs Better StackEntry paid plan: $15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million
- Datadogvs Better StackKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
- Elastic Cloudvs Better StackEntry paid plan: Elastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per mon…
- SigNozFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
- OpenObservevs Better StackKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
Where Better Stack stands against these 8
Better Stack's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 5 of the 8 alternatives that document it have one: Axiom, Datadog, GlitchTip, Grafana Cloud, Sentry.
- What the free plan includes
- 3 GB of logs a month retained 3 days, 100,000 exceptions, and uptime monitoring with on-call and status pages…3rd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: Axiom — 500 GB of data loading a month, 10 GB-hours of query compute, 25 GB of storage and 30-day retention, with no…
- Entry paid plan
- From $29/month, or $34/month depending on the plan selected; Better Stack advertises both figures as starting…5th cheapest of the 6 that document it. Cheapest: GlitchTip — $15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.