vsBetter StackThe free Better Stack alternative
OrgOrg vs Better Stack · Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages
Free for teams of up to 5. Every app, no feature gates, no credit card. Past 5 people, Pro is $10 per member per month.
Better Stack combines uptime monitoring, on-call, log management, and a status page in one developer-focused product, with a free tier and a price per unit. OrgOrg's Status app covers the status page and the probes behind it, with On-Call in the same suite, free for up to 5 people. This page lays out the honest tradeoffs.
When OrgOrg is the right pick
Teams that want a customer-facing status page backed by real checks, without a logging platform to adopt. They would rather have profiles, go links, feedback, and on-call in the same suite. OrgOrg is the right pick when the status page is an internal-tools decision, not an observability one.
When Better Stack is the right pick
Engineering teams that want monitoring, logs, and status in one developer tool, with 30-second checks from several regions, Playwright checks by the minute, and a generous free tier. Better Stack is the safe pick when observability is the purchase and the status page is one output of it.
Where OrgOrg wins
- Synthetic Playwright flows that drive a real browser through login and signup as a standard probe kind, not a metered add-on.
- Upstream provider health for Convex, Cloudflare, GCP, and Vercel on the same page.
- The worst probe sets the service, so a partial outage cannot hide behind one healthy check.
- A custom hostname, logo, brand color, and support email on the free plan, with no 'powered by' footer to buy out.
- The status page is one of 20 or more apps: on-call, go links, org chart, and feedback come with it, for one flat price.
Where Better Stack wins
- Checks every 30 seconds on paid plans from at least four locations, with an incident only after three locations fail.
- Log management, tracing, and metrics in the same product, priced by the gigabyte.
- Unlimited phone and SMS alerts, on-call schedules, and escalation policies on the Responder seat.
- A free tier with 10 monitors and heartbeats, one status page, and 3-minute checks.
- A REST API and a Terraform provider for every resource.
Feature comparison
12 of 14 rows link to Better Stack's own pricing or documentation, each read on or after 2026-10-31. The rest are marked unverified: we could not find the claim stated on their site.
| Feature | OrgOrg | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Every app, up to 5 people | Free: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, 3-minute checks, Slack and email alertsSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| HTTP and keyword uptime checks | yes | yes, every 30 seconds on paid plans and every 3 minutes on the free tierSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Synthetic browser flows (login, signup) | yes, included | yes, Playwright minutes at $1 per 100Source, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Multi-region probes | no | yes, at least four locations per monitorSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Upstream provider health on the page | yes | noUnverified |
| Hosted status page with a custom domain | yes | yes, one page free, with a CNAMESource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Incident updates and maintenance windows | yes | yesSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Subscriber notifications | no | yes: email, Slack, webhooks, and RSS; 1,000 subscribers includedSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Remove the vendor's footer | no footer to remove | paid: white-label at $250 a page a monthSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| On-call schedules and paging | yes | yes, on the Responder seat: unlimited phone calls and SMSSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Log management and tracing | no | yes, priced by the gigabyteSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| API and Terraform provider | partial: incidents open from the On-Call API | yes, bothSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| SSO | Google and Microsoft sign-in | Google included; Azure and Okta $5 per user a month; SAML on enterprise termsSource, checked 2026-10-31 |
| Bundled with profiles, go links, feedback, recognition… | yes | noUnverified |
- Free plan: Better Stack prices by unit after that: a Responder seat is $29 a month on yearly billing, 50 more monitors $21, another status page $12.
- Synthetic browser flows (login, signup): Better Stack meters Playwright transaction monitoring by the minute. OrgOrg runs the flows as a standard probe kind.
- On-call schedules and paging: OrgOrg's On-Call is a separate app in the same suite, with Twilio text and voice pages: 100 a month free, 1,000 on Pro.
OrgOrg pricing
Included in the flat-priced suite. Free for teams of up to five, then $10 per member per month.
Better Stack pricing
A free tier for basic monitors and one status page, then a price per unit: seats, monitors, heartbeats, Playwright minutes, status pages, subscribers, and gigabytes of telemetry.
Better Stack plans, as its pricing page lists them
Read on 2026-10-31 at Better Stack's pricing page. OrgOrg has one price: Free for teams of up to 5. Every app, no feature gates, no credit card. Past 5 people, Pro is $10 per member per month.
| Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, 3-minute checks, Slack and email alerts, 3 GB of logs for 3 days. |
| Responder seat | $29 a month billed yearly, $34 monthly | On-call scheduling, escalations, unlimited phone and SMS alerts. A team member with telemetry access only is $0. |
| Monitors and checks | 50 more monitors $21 a month, 10 more heartbeats $17, Playwright $1 per 100 minutes | Checks every 30 seconds, keyword checks, transaction monitoring. |
| Status page add-ons | Another page $12 a month, 1,000 more subscribers $40, white-label $208, SSO $208 | Yearly billing; the monthly prices are $15, $40, $250, and $250. Custom CSS and JavaScript is $12 a page. |
Telemetry (logs, traces, metrics) is priced in bundles from $25 a month in Europe and $38 in the US, with 30 days of retention. Better Stack offers a 60-day money-back guarantee.
How to move from Better Stack to OrgOrg
A status page moves in an afternoon when the services and their checks are listed first. Keep the Better Stack page up until the OrgOrg page shows a day of real health, then move the domain.
- List the monitors behind each service. Each resource on the Better Stack page becomes a service in OrgOrg. Note the URL of each monitor and the keyword it asserts on. The Uptime API lists every monitor, if the list is long.
- Create the services and attach probes. Add each service, then attach an HTTP check, a synthetic login or signup flow, or an upstream provider's health. A Playwright scenario becomes a synthetic flow with no minutes to meter.
- Brand the page. Add your logo, brand color, support email, and website link, and set the custom hostname. The domain is a CNAME, as it was with Better Stack.
- Move the on-call rotation. For each Better Stack schedule, a rotation in OrgOrg with its cadence, handoff day and time, timezone, and the order of people, then the escalation wait and path. Send a test page before the switch.
- Tell your subscribers and move the domain. OrgOrg's page has no subscriber list. Post one last update on Better Stack with the new address, then point the CNAME at OrgOrg after a day of green probes.
The verdict
Better Stack is the better pick when observability is the purchase: logs, traces, 30-second checks from several regions, and a pager, with the status page as one output. OrgOrg is the better pick when the status page is the purchase: real browser flows and upstream health included, your own domain free, no footer to buy out, and on-call, the people directory, and the rest of the suite for one price per member.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Better Stack free?
- Yes, with limits. The free tier gives 10 monitors and heartbeats, one status page on a Better Stack subdomain, checks every 3 minutes, and alerts by Slack and email. Phone and SMS alerts come with the Responder seat at $29 a month. OrgOrg is free for teams of up to 5 people, with every app included.
- Is there a free Better Stack alternative for a status page?
- OrgOrg's Status app serves the page on your own hostname with your logo, brand color, and support email on the free plan. HTTP checks, synthetic browser flows, and upstream provider health back it. There is no 'powered by' footer to buy out.
- How much does Better Stack cost?
- Better Stack prices by unit. A Responder seat is $29 a month on yearly billing, 50 extra monitors $21, another status page $12, 1,000 more subscribers $40, and white-labeling $208 a page. Logs, traces, and metrics come in bundles from $25 a month. OrgOrg is $10 per member a month for the whole suite past 5 people.
- Does OrgOrg run Playwright checks like Better Stack?
- Yes. OrgOrg runs synthetic Playwright flows through login and signup as a standard probe kind, included in the plan. Better Stack meters transaction monitoring at $1 per 100 Playwright minutes.
- What does OrgOrg lack that Better Stack has?
- Checks from several regions, 30-second intervals, log management and tracing, subscriber notifications, a Terraform provider, and unlimited phone alerts on a seat. OrgOrg covers the page, the probes, and the on-call pager, and adds the rest of the suite.
- Can OrgOrg notify my subscribers?
- No. Better Stack sends status updates by email, Slack, webhooks, and RSS, with 1,000 subscribers included. OrgOrg's page is read-only for visitors today. A team whose customers expect an email on each incident should weigh that first.