Better Stack vs Grafana
On the evidence we track, Better Stack leads this comparison with a composite score of 66/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for observability tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Better Stack
LeaderCloud-native observability platform that consolidates log management, metrics, distributed tracing, infrastructure monitoring, and incident management with built-in on-call scheduling and AI-powered incident investigation capabilities.
Grafana
A comprehensive observability solution that integrates metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources using OpenTelemetry-native standards, providing dashboards, alerting, and incident management capabilities for teams of any size.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Better Stack
LeaderFree tier for personal projects. Paid plans start at $29/month billed annually with per-component metered pricing.
- FreeFree
- 10 monitors & heartbeats
- 1 status page
- Slack & e-mail alerts
- 100,000 exceptions per month
- 3 GB logs retained for 3 days
- +1 more
- Standard with Single Responder$34/month or $29/month billed annually
- Single responder with unlimited phone call alerts
- Incident management
- On-call scheduling
- Monitoring
- Status pages
Grafana
Free forever tier always available. Pro plans from $19/month + usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year with custom terms.
- FreeFree
- All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
- Community support
- 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests
- ProFrom $19/month + usage with automatic volume discounts
- Everything in Free plan
- Pay as you go above free tier with volume discounts
- 8×5 email support
- 13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, k6 performance tests
- Adaptive Logs and Metrics cost optimization
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Premium support
- Custom retention policies
- Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
- As low as $3 per 1k series for metrics at scale
- Custom pricing based on annual commit and volume
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Prometheus
- AWS
- OpenTelemetry
Better Stack
Leader- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Linear
- GitHub
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Notion
- Sentry
- Zapier
- Zabbix
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- New Relic
- Mixpanel
- Intercom
- Front
- Drift
- Terraform Provider
- Terraform
- Helm
- NLog
- Google Calendar
- Outlook Calendar
- Webhooks
- +4 more
Grafana
- Loki
- Elasticsearch
- InfluxDB
- Postgres
- Kubernetes
- Tempo
- Azure Monitor
Better Stack or Grafana: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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