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Better Stack Alternative

StillUp vs Better Stack

Great product — priced for funded startups, not indie founders.

Better Stack starts at Free / from $24/mo · StillUp starts free

Why people look for Better Stack alternatives

Paid plans start at $24/mo — more than double StillUp Pro
Free tier is very limited in terms of retention and features
Check interval on free is 3 minutes vs StillUp's 1 minute
More product than most indie founders need (on-call scheduling, etc.)
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Better Stack vs StillUp — feature by feature

FeatureBetter StackStillUp
Starting priceFree (limited)Free — 3 monitors
Pro price$24/mo$9/mo
Free check interval3 minutes1 minute
Custom domain
Telegram alerts
Discord alerts
Incident management

What you get with StillUp

1-min checks, free

Every plan including free checks your endpoints every 60 seconds.

All alert channels

Email, Slack, Discord, and Telegram on every plan. No paywalls.

Custom domain

status.yoursite.com on all plans. SSL provisioned automatically.

Beautiful status page

Public status page your users will actually trust and bookmark.

Incident management

Post timestamped updates as incidents unfold. Full public timeline.

2-minute setup

Add a URL, configure alerts, share your status page. That's it.

Bottom line

Better Stack is a genuinely excellent product. If you need on-call rotation, advanced escalation policies, or a big enterprise team — it's worth the price. If you're a solo founder or small SaaS team who wants 1-minute checks and a clean status page, $24/mo is hard to justify when StillUp does the same for $9.

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