# Better Stack Uptime vs Uptrends

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

| Attribute | Better Stack Uptime | Uptrends |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 65 (60% (medium)) | 42.6 (26% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":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. | A cloud-based platform that monitors critical web services and user journeys from 230+ worldwide locations. It detects issues earlier through synthetic testing, including identity-driven flows with MFA and SSO, and integrates with observability platforms and incident management tools. |
| integrations.count | 10 | 11 |
| 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":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"StatusHub"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Splunk On-Call"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Statuspage"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"Uptrends API"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"GB","primaryMarkets":["GB","US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":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":"subscription","summary":"Free 30-day trial; no credit card required. Paid plans available (details not visible on provided pages).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.uptrends.com/changelog/january-2025-pricing-tiers-renamed/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T22:02:28.052Z","freeTrialDays":30}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | mid | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":29,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Uptime Monitoring)

| Capability | Better Stack Uptime | Uptrends |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-09-01T16:53:45.506Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*