Great product — priced for funded startups, not indie founders.
Better Stack starts at Free / from $24/mo · StillUp starts free
| Feature | Better Stack | StillUp |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free (limited) | Free — 3 monitors |
| Pro price | $24/mo | $9/mo |
| Free check interval | 3 minutes | 1 minute |
| Custom domain | ✓ | ✓ |
| Telegram alerts | ✗ | ✓ |
| Discord alerts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Incident management | ✓ | ✓ |
Every plan including free checks your endpoints every 60 seconds.
Email, Slack, Discord, and Telegram on every plan. No paywalls.
status.yoursite.com on all plans. SSL provisioned automatically.
Public status page your users will actually trust and bookmark.
Post timestamped updates as incidents unfold. Full public timeline.
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.