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Better Stack vs Checkly
Both do 1 of the same developer tools task. Below is what each says about its own limits and pricing, and how each ranks on signals we can measure or quote.
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Better Stack
AI SRE and MCP server, incident management, on-call, logs, metrics, traces, and error tracking. 7,000+ happy customers. 60-day money back guarantee.
Signals score: 3.8 / 5 · not a hands-on test
Visit betterstack.comB
Checkly
The only monitoring platform built from the ground up to be operated by developers and agents to give teams a clear signal of application health.
Signals score: 4.0 / 5 · not a hands-on test
Visit www.checklyhq.comPricing, limits and privacy
- Free tier
- A: Free plan at $0/month for personal projects: 10 monitors and heartbeats (shared), 1 status page, Slack and email alerts. Check frequency for the free tier is not listed.
- B: Hobby plan costs $0: 10 uptime monitors, up to 1,000 browser check runs and 10,000 API check runs per month (hard-capped), 6 locations, 2-minute maximum frequency, 1 user, 1 dashboard. Email, Slack and webhook alerts. Raw data kept 7 days.
- Paid plan
- A: Uptime monitoring includes 10 monitors; each extra block of 50 monitors is $25/month billed monthly or $21/month billed yearly. Prices in $ (currency not named). Other paid plans were not read.
- B: Prices in $ (currency not named). Starter: Detect (uptime and synthetic) $24/month billed annually. Team: Detect $64/month billed annually. Status pages, AI root cause and Platform bundles are priced separately. Enterprise is a custom quote. The page says save up to 20% on annual billing.
- Signup
- A: Not stated. The privacy policy says accounts are created from information given at registration.
- B: Sign-up is through a Get Started link to the signup page; the page does not explicitly say an account is required. The FAQ says no credit card is needed to get started.
- Watermark
- A: Not applicable.
- B: Not applicable.
- Where files go
- A: Privacy policy says personal data is processed primarily in the European Union and may be transferred outside the EEA with safeguards. No specific retention period is given; data is kept where legally permitted and necessary. Erasure requests can be emailed.
- B: Data may be processed in the United States. Test results are kept by plan: Hobby and Starter 7 days raw and 30 days aggregated; Team 30 days raw and 1 year aggregated; Enterprise 180 days raw and 25 months aggregated. No retention period is given for account data.
From each tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them. Sources are listed on each tool's page.
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- Only Checkly: API testing
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