# Better Stack Uptime vs Blackbox Exporter

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Better Stack Uptime

| Attribute | Better Stack Uptime | Blackbox Exporter |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 63 (60% (medium)) | 48.5 (32% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 13 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 17 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 5,841 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Better Stack combines uptime monitoring, incident management, on-call scheduling, status pages, and log analysis in a single platform. It provides automated alerting, incident response workflows, and observability tools to help teams detect and resolve infrastructure issues faster. | - |
| integrations.count | 10 | 1 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Google Calendar"},{"name":"Outlook"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Datadog"}]` | `[{"name":"Prometheus"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","Email and Slack alerts","Status page","Exception tracking"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes 10 monitors, 10 heartbeats, 1 status page, and 100k exceptions per month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monitors":"10","exceptions":"100,000/month","heartbeats":"10","status_pages":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Uptime","summary":"$29/month billed annually ($34/month monthly)","features":["Unlimited monitors","Incident management","On-call scheduling","Status page included","Slack and Teams integration","SMS, email, push alerts","Incident timeline and collaboration"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Base plan with unlimited monitors, incident management, and on-call capabilities","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Responder License","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"responder","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional Status Page","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":12,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Phone Call Routing","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":208,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Log Storage","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB/month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Error Tracking","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"exception"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.00005,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Session Replay","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"session"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0015,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"KPI Tracking","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"team member","amount":4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Admin & Compliance","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Uptime monitoring and incident management starts at $29/month billed annually. Modular add-ons for logs, errors, responders, and other features.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T21:58:06.678Z","startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T21:59:48.980Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | mid | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":29,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 122 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.28.0","date":"2025-12-06T13:32:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.27.0","date":"2025-06-30T13:45:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.27.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.26.0","date":"2025-02-26T13:51:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.26.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.25.0","date":"2024-04-09T13:30:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.25.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.24.0","date":"2023-05-16T11:23:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.24.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.23.0","date":"2022-12-02T20:59:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.23.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.22.0","date":"2022-08-02T14:26:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.22.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.1","date":"2022-06-23T16:09:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.21.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.0","date":"2022-05-30T15:06:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.21.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.0-rc.0","date":"2022-05-11T11:14:26Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.21.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.20.0","date":"2022-03-16T23:52:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.20.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.20.0-rc.0","date":"2022-02-17T20:34:32Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.20.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.19.0","date":"2021-05-10T13:18:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.18.0","date":"2020-10-12T10:13:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.17.0","date":"2020-06-19T12:14:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.16.0","date":"2019-11-11T18:16:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.15.1","date":"2019-09-17T12:52:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.15.0","date":"2019-09-11T13:09:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.14.0","date":"2019-03-15T13:49:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.13.0","date":"2018-12-04T15:20:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.13.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 7 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fprometheus%2Fblackbox_exporter&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (Uptime Monitoring)

| Capability | Better Stack Uptime | Blackbox Exporter |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment model | - | - |
| HTTP HTTPS checks | - | - |
| Ssl expiry monitoring | - | - |
| Cron heartbeat monitoring | - | - |
| Synthetic browser checks | - | - |
| DNS monitoring | - | - |
| Multi location checks | - | - |
| Slack teams alerting | - | - |
| SMS voice alerting | - | - |
| Incident pagerduty integration | - | - |
| Bundled status page | - | - |
| SOC2 type ii | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:47:01.085Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*