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Better Stack vs Instatus
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
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Instatus
Create a free status page in seconds. Monitor your services, fix incidents with your team, and share your status with customers.
Signals score: 3.9 / 5 · not a hands-on test
Visit instatus.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: Starter plan is free: 15 monitors, 2-minute checks, email alerts, 5 team members, 2 on-call members, a public status page, no custom domain, 200 subscribers.
- 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: Pro from $20/month (yearly billing 25% off, paid up front): 50 monitors, 30-second checks, SMS alerts, 1+ custom domain, 5,000 subscribers. Business price not stated. Enterprise is custom.
- Signup
- A: Not stated. The privacy policy says accounts are created from information given at registration.
- B: Not stated; page has Sign up free calls to action.
- Watermark
- A: Not applicable.
- B: Not stated.
- 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 stored primarily in the United States; service providers may process it in other countries. After account deletion, data is removed from live systems within 30 days and from backups within 60 days. Billing records kept as tax law requires, typically up to 7 years.
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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