Better Stack

Freemium

AI SRE and MCP server, incident management, on-call, logs, metrics, traces, and error…

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About Better Stack

Better Stack is a developer tools tool for building and shipping software. In its own words: AI SRE and MCP server, incident management, on-call, logs, metrics, traces, and error tracking. 7,000+ happy customers. 60-day money back guarantee.

What the free plan gives you

Free tier for monitoring and logs. Taken from Better Stack's own pricing page, the free plan includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page; slack & e-mail alerts; 100,000 exceptions per month; 5,000 session replays.

What it does

Better Stack covers aI SRE, robust MCP server, get an AI SRE, smart incident merging, aI written post-mortems.

When you would pay

The free plan is bounded (free tier for monitoring and logs), so treat it as a genuine trial of the product rather than a permanent home. It is enough to decide whether Better Stack fits before any money changes hands.

We list Better Stack because the free plan was checked against its own pricing page, not because a vendor asked. If it has changed, tell us and we will re-check it.

Key Features

AI SRE

Robust MCP server

Get an AI SRE

Smart incident merging

AI written post-mortems

Tracing

Incident management

Slack-based incident management

Pros & Cons

Free plan limits are published clearly

Covers aI SRE on the free plan

Free plan verified against the vendor's pricing page

Free plan is bounded: free tier for monitoring and logs

Hosted only — no self-hosting escape hatch

The free plan in practice

What you can actually do on Better Stack's free plan (Free tier for monitoring and logs), where it stops, and when it's worth paying.

What you can do free

10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page
Slack & e-mail alerts
100,000 exceptions per month
5,000 session replays
3 GB logs retained for 3 days
3 GB traces retained for 3 days
30 GB metrics
3 GB web events retained for 3 days

Where it stops

Free tier for monitoring and logs

When to upgrade to a paid plan

Stay on the free plan while you're comfortably under the free plan's limit (Free tier for monitoring and logs). It's worth moving to a paid plan once you consistently bump into that ceiling, need to remove branding, or want features the free tier holds back.