When Better Stack is the right choice
You want on-call scheduling and Better Uptime's incident workflows integrated with the monitoring, and the price fits the budget.
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Better Stack
A modern uptime + incident management platform, popular with dev teams.
Pricing at a glance
Publicly listed prices as of the page publication date. Both vendors update pricing over time — verify on the vendor's own site before purchasing.
Free10 monitors, 3-minute checks, 1 status page
PaidFrom $20/month for 30-second checks and team featuresbilled monthly
ZnowPulse$0 on free. $5.99/month or $59.99/year on Pro.billed monthly
Feature comparison
Read across the rows; columns are vendors. Cells are short facts — links go to the vendor's own documentation where the answer is anything more nuanced than a single line.
| Feature | Better Stack | ZnowPulse |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited monitors on free | 10 monitors | Unlimited monitors |
| Check interval (free) | 3 minutes | 5 minutes (10s on Pro) |
| Alert channels on free | Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, webhooks (SMS is paid) | 15 integrations on Free; PagerDuty and Opsgenie on Pro |
| Hosted status page on free | 1 status page on free | Hosted status page on free |
| Custom status-page domain | Custom domain on paid plans | Custom domain on Pro |
| Incident management / post-mortems | On-call, post-mortems on paid | Incident timeline + post-mortems |
| SSO / SAML | Paid | On Pro |
| Public API | Public REST API | Public REST API |
When ZnowPulse is the right choice
You'd rather not pay for an SMS per-incident or for SSO, or you want unlimited monitors without negotiating a plan increase every time you add a service.
Try ZnowPulse on the free plan.
Unlimited monitors, one Nexus Point on Free, unlimited Nexus Points on Pro, and alert delivery options. No card, no countdown.