A simpler Better Stack alternative
Better Stack bundles uptime monitoring, incident management, status pages and log management into one platform. Uptime Dog covers the same ground at a smaller scale, with flat plans. Here's how to decide.
Based on public information as of October 2026. Check Better Stack's own site for current plans and prices. Better Stack is a trademark of its owner; Uptime Dog isn't affiliated with it.
Uptime Dog and Better Stack at a glance
| Area | Uptime Dog | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Uptime, status pages, incidents, on-call, logs and an AI assistant | A broad observability platform: uptime, incidents, status pages, logs and more |
| Pricing model | Flat plans in GBP: £0, then £9, £29, £79 a month | A plan plus per-responder and usage-based add-ons; see their site |
| On-call | Rotations, overrides and escalation policies on paid plans | Included |
| Logs | Included, with volume and retention by plan | A major product in its own right |
| Company | Making Stuffs Ltd, a UK company | See their site |
The main differences
How the bill is worked out
Uptime Dog has four plans with fixed prices in pounds, and each includes seats, SMS and call credits, status pages and log volume. You can see exactly what next month costs. Platforms that charge per responder, per status page or by usage give more room to grow but take more working out.
Depth against breadth
Better Stack's logging and observability go much further than ours: Uptime Dog's logs are for searching what happened around an incident, and are kept for Free 1 day, Essentials 7 days, Pro 14 days and Business 30 days. If logs and dashboards are central to how you work, that matters.
Size of team
Uptime Dog is built for small and medium teams who want one tool that does the essentials well. Our largest plan has 25 seats and 1,000 monitors.
What Uptime Dog includes
Four plans, priced in pounds sterling and billed monthly or yearly through Paddle. Limits per plan, from Free to Business:
- Monitors: Free 20, Essentials 50, Pro 200 and Business 1,000, checked as often as every 20 seconds.
- Status pages: Free 1, Essentials 1, Pro 5 and Business 20, with custom domains from Essentials.
- Seats: Free 1, Essentials 3, Pro 10 and Business 25.
- SMS and call credits a month: Essentials 20, Pro 100 and Business 300.
- Logs a month: Free 100 MB, Essentials 5,000 MB, Pro 20,000 MB and Business 50,000 MB.
- Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, webhook, PagerDuty and Opsgenie alerts, the REST API and the AI assistant (with your own key) on every plan.
See the full pricing table or the feature overview.
When Better Stack is the better choice
No tool is right for everyone. Better Stack is likely to suit you better if:
- Logs, metrics and dashboards are central to your work and you need long retention.
- You need a larger team or more monitors than our biggest plan.
- You want a wide catalogue of integrations beyond the alert channels we support.
Moving from Better Stack
Recreate monitors with the REST API, add your alert channels and on-call schedules, and send logs to the ingest endpoint (JSON, NDJSON or plain lines all work). Move the status page domain last, once the new page shows what you expect.
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Uptime Dog is free for up to 20 monitors. No card needed.
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