Pingdom vs Better Stack Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
| Pingdom | Better Stack | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $16/mo | Custom |
| Number of plans | 3 | 1 |
| Free plan | — | |
| Free trial | ||
| Pricing model | usage-based | hybrid |
Synthetic Monitoring
- Transaction monitoring
- Page speed monitoring
- Uptime monitoring
- Email and SMS alerting
- Maintenance windows
- Public status pages and reports
- Unlimited users
Real User Monitoring
- Unlimited number of sites
- Unlimited users
- Shareable reports
- Performance filtering
- 13-month data retention
Enterprise
Free for personal projects
- 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
Pingdom vs Better Stack FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- One or both use custom pricing, so it depends on your specific needs.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Better Stack has a free plan. Pingdom doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Pingdom uses usage-based pricing, while Better Stack goes with hybrid. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Pingdom: At $16.5/mo per module, Pingdom sits in the mid-range — cheaper than Datadog's full observability stack but pricier than bare-bones uptime tools like Better Uptime or UptimeRobot. They're clearly targeting teams that want more than a ping checker but aren't ready to commit to a full APM platform. Better Stack: At $29/responder, they're undercutting PagerDuty and Opsgenie on incident management while bundling observability that Datadog charges a premium for separately. They're going after mid-market engineering teams who are tired of stitching together three tools and paying enterprise prices for the privilege.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Pingdom and Better Stack and let you know when something moves.