# Better Stack vs Sematext

| Attribute | Better Stack | Sematext |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 66 (72% (medium)) | 65 (49% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Better Stack provides observability tools including a collector that uses eBPF technology to instrument Kubernetes and Docker environments, gathering logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry traces without requiring code modifications. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://betterstack.com","question":"What is Better Stack?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $25 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Is Better Stack free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Better Stack support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Better Stack, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Can Better Stack be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 23 integrations for Better Stack, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub, Grafana, Datadog, Notion and Sentry, plus 15 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://betterstack.com","question":"What does Better Stack integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Better Stack. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Better Stack not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://betterstack.com/security","question":"What security certifications does Better Stack have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Better Stack is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Where is Better Stack available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"A managed cloud platform providing monitoring of infrastructure metrics, application performance, logs, traces, and user interactions designed for DevOps teams. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What is Sematext?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $1.68 per host per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Is Sematext free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Sematext support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Sematext, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Can Sematext be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 21 integrations for Sematext, including Syslog, Angular, Custom Webhooks, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Microsoft Teams, Akka and Ember, plus 13 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What does Sematext integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Sematext available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Cloud-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. | Comprehensive platform that provides visibility into application and API performance, logs, metrics, and end-user experience. Uses synthetic monitoring and real-time alerting to detect performance degradation and downtime before they impact users. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 100 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Notion"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Zabbix"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Mixpanel"},{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Front"},{"name":"Drift"},{"name":"Terraform Provider"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Helm","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"NLog","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Calendar","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Outlook Calendar","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Webhooks","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"REST API","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Codex","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Cursor","native":false,"direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Syslog"},{"name":"Angular"},{"name":"Custom Webhooks"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"GitLab CI/CD"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Akka"},{"name":"Ember"},{"name":"Next.js"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Kibana"},{"name":"Apache Solr"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat"},{"name":"AlertOps","native":true,"category":"alerting"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Docker","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Postman","native":true,"category":"api"},{"name":"Solr","native":true,"category":"search"},{"name":"SolrCloud","native":true,"category":"search"},{"name":"OpsGenie","category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Zapier","category":"automation"},{"name":"VictorOps","category":"incident_management"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["10 monitors & heartbeats","1 status page","Slack & e-mail alerts","100,000 exceptions per month","3 GB logs retained for 3 days","30 GB metrics"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Personal projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"metrics":"30 GB","monitors":"10","status_pages":"1","logs_retention":"3 GB for 3 days","exceptions_per_month":"100,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard with Single Responder","summary":"$34/month or $29/month billed annually","features":["Single responder with unlimited phone call alerts","Incident management","On-call scheduling","Monitoring","Status pages"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":34,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Incident management with single responder","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Logs","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.08,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Logs (Annual)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Metrics","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Metrics (Annual)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"External Monitoring","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"External Monitoring (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":21,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Transaction Monitoring (Playwright)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Transaction Monitoring (Playwright, Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":17,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Status Page","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Status Page (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":12,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Call Routing","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":250,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Call Routing (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":208,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Per Responder License","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"responder","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Reporting & Analytics","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"member","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Reporting & Analytics (Annual)","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"member","amount":4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"User Management","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier for personal projects. Paid plans start at $29/month billed annually with per-component metered pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T11:11:16.207Z","startingPrice":{"amount":34,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Infrastructure Monitoring","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Network Map","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":1.68,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"AI Agent Watch","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":1.68,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"summary":"From $5/month for infrastructure monitoring. Metered pricing for logs and traces based on volume and retention. 14-day free trial available for Status Pages.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T15:53:45.118Z","startingPrice":{"amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | mid | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":34,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":5,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27001","status":"active","auditor":"DIN"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Better Stack | Sematext |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Signals** |  |  |
| Metrics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application performance monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Response** |  |  |
| Alerting | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-call / incident management | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry-native | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:58:02.355Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*