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Better Stack
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Where it stands
3.8 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Facts stated4.2 / 5 · weight 30%
How many of the five facts the tool's own pages state
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Better Stack yet. Facts checked 2026-11-01. How tests work
Disclosure: agathox makes some of the tools listed here. They are labelled and scored by the same method as every other tool.
Should you use Better Stack?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-01.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “Free plan at $0/month for personal projects: 10 monitors and heartbeats (shared), 1 status page, Slack and email alerts. Check…”
Check first
- Its pages do not state: signup, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Uptime monitoring
Measured signals
4 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Better Stack's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 20 ms.
- Security5 / 55 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
- Privacy1 / 56 third-party tracking services found: Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight, X (Twitter) Pixel.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
We found no public discussion of this tool to read.
A score needs at least 12 different commenters across 2 threads.
- Free tier
- 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.
- Paid plan
- 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.
- Signup
- Not stated. The privacy policy says accounts are created from information given at registration.
- Watermark
- Not applicable.
- Where files go
- 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.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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Tasks and scores
- Uptime monitoringNot tested yet
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