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Comparison

Better Stack vs Thanos

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.

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★Better Stack66
Thanos59
Score
vioscaleAI score
Better Stack66 / 100medium · 72%
Thanos59 / 100medium · 52%
Pricing
Free tier
Better Stack✓
Thanos✓
Model
Better Stackfreemium
Thanosopen_source
Price level
Better Stackmid
Thanosfree
Starting price
Better Stack$34
Thanos–
Transparent
Better Stack✓
Thanos–
Integrations
Count
Better Stack15
Thanos8
Security
Certifications
Better StackSOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001
Thanos–
Disclosure policy
Better Stack✓
Thanos–
Gdpr
Better Stack✓
Thanos–
Iso27001
Better Stack✓
Thanos–
Scorecard
Better Stack–
Thanos8.3
Soc2
Better Stack✓
Thanos–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Better Stack✓
Thanos–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Better Stack–
Thanos1,266
Github stars
Better Stack–
Thanos14,234
Activity
Commits last 30d
Better Stack–
Thanos52
Release
Cadence days
Better Stack–
Thanos6
History
Better Stack–
Thanos20 items
License
Spdx
Better Stack–
ThanosApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Better Stack–
ThanosGo
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Better Stack7 items
Thanos6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for observability tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Signals
Metrics
Better Stack✓
Thanos✓
Log management
Better Stack✓
Thanos✗
Distributed tracing
Better Stack✓
Thanos✓
Application performance monitoring
Better Stack✓
Thanos✗
Real-user monitoring
Better Stack✓
Thanos-
Response
Alerting
Better Stack✓
Thanos✓
On-call / incident management
Better Stack✓
Thanos-
Insight
Dashboards
Better Stack✓
Thanos✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Better Stack✓
Thanos✓
Deployment
Hosting
Better StackCloud only
ThanosSelf-hosted only

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Better Stack

Leader

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.

Independently observed

Thanos

CNCF Incubating project extending Prometheus with global query view across multiple servers, unlimited retention via object storage, and downsampling capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Better Stack

Leader
from $34/moHybridFree tier

Free 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
as of verify ↗

Thanos

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Better Stack✓
Thanos✓
iOS
Better Stack✓
Thanos✗
Android
Better Stack✓
Thanos✗
CLI
Better Stack✗
Thanos✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Better Stack✓
Thanos✗
Self-hosted
Better Stack✗
Thanos✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (3)
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Azure

Better Stack

Leader
31 total - 28 not shared
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Linear
  • GitHub
  • Datadog
  • Notion
  • Sentry
  • Zapier
  • Zabbix
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • New Relic
  • Mixpanel
  • Intercom
  • Front
  • Drift
  • Terraform Provider
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • NLog
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Google Calendar
  • Outlook Calendar
  • Webhooks
  • +4 more
Independently observed

Thanos

9 total - 6 not shared
  • OpenTSDB
  • S3
  • GCP
  • Swift
  • Tencent COS
  • Alertmanager
Independently observed
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