One price per site
5 sites cost €10 a month, excl. VAT, with every check type. One Better Stack responder license costs $34 a month, and monitors and heartbeats count separately.
UptimeVanguard vs Better Stack: uptime monitoring without license fees
UptimeVanguard does uptime monitoring and status pages, and does them in one price per site: €10 a month for 5 sites, excl. VAT, with every check type, up to 5 status pages and unlimited team members. A second region confirms a website or API outage before we alert you, and we are an EU company that keeps your data in Germany.
- Free plan for 3 sites
- No responder licenses
- Last checked 2026-11-11
Why UptimeVanguard
What you get when you switch from Better Stack
No responder licenses
Unlimited team members with Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer roles, and nothing to license per responder. Better Stack charges $34 a month for each responder.
Up to 5 status pages included
Subscribers get an email when a component goes down or recovers, and when you post an update. Better Stack includes 1 page and charges $15 a month for each extra public page.
Data in Germany
The application, databases and check results run at Hetzner in Falkenstein, Germany. Better Stack’s DPA allows processing in the United States. Our GDPR data processing agreement is public.
Outages confirmed from a second region
Choose from 10 regions. A second region confirms a website, API, ping or DNS failure before you are alerted.
Checks Better Stack does not list
SSL score (a testssl.sh grade), broken-link and mixed-content scans and application health. We did not find these on its pricing page.
30-second checks
Up to 10 HTTP or ping checks per team every 30 seconds, every other check every 60 seconds.
SMS through your own provider
Send SMS alerts through your own Vonage, Twilio or CM.com account, at that provider’s rate. Or send alerts to PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams and more.
Free plan and free tools
Monitor 3 sites free. Use our free SSL checker, Is it down? and SLA calculator without an account.
Side by side
Features compared
Better Stack facts come from its own public pages, checked on 2026-11-11. Products change: check their pages before you decide.
| Area | UptimeVanguard | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Company and data | EU company from the Netherlands (KvK 42017143). Hosted in Germany: the application, databases and check results run at Hetzner in Falkenstein. | Better Stack, Inc. Its DPA allows processing in the United States; infrastructure sub-processors are AWS (United States), Google Ireland, Hetzner (Europe) and Cloudflare (global). |
| Pricing unit | Per site: one host name with all its checks. | Per responder license, with 10 monitors included; more monitors in packs of 50. |
| Free plan and trial | Free plan: 3 sites with every check type and every alert channel, 5-minute checks from one region, 1 status page, 30 days of history. 7-day trial of every check type on 5 sites. No card. | Free plan: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, Slack and email alerts, 3-minute checks. |
| Fastest interval | 30 seconds for up to 10 HTTP or ping checks per team on the paid plan; 60 seconds for other checks; 5 minutes on the Free plan. | 30 seconds on paid plans; 3 minutes on the free plan. |
| Regions | 10 regions; a second region confirms a website, API, ping or DNS failure before you are alerted. | Each monitor is checked from at least 4 locations by default; an incident needs failures from at least 3. The pages we checked give no total count. |
| Check types | HTTP, ping, TCP port, DNS, SSL certificate, SSL score, broken links and mixed content, application health, cron heartbeats. | HTTP(S) and keyword, ping, TCP and UDP ports, POP3, IMAP and SMTP, SSL and domain expiry, heartbeats, Playwright transaction checks billed by the minute. |
| Alert channels | Email, SMS through your own Vonage, Twilio or CM.com account, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, ntfy and webhooks. Every channel is on the Free plan too. | Email, Slack, Teams, unlimited phone calls and SMS, and many integrations. |
| On-call and escalation | Alerts go to PagerDuty for on-call schedules, escalation and phone calls. | On-call scheduling for responders included. |
| Status pages | Up to 5 hosted pages on the paid plan, 1 on Free. Email subscribers get incident and update emails. | 1 included, $15 a month per extra public page; 1,000 subscribers included; custom sub-domain; white label $250 a month per page. |
| Team | Unlimited members on every plan; Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer roles. | Unlimited team members; responders are licensed at $34 a month each. |
| Sign-in | Two-factor sign-in with an authenticator app. | Not compared: we did not find it on the pricing page. |
Price
Better Stack pricing against ours at 5, 25 and 100 sites
Our prices are in euro, a month, excl. VAT, the same billed monthly or prepaid. One HTTP monitor per site unless the row says more. Better Stack lists US dollars; we did not convert them. It publishes component prices, so the amounts below are our sum for one responder license plus the monitor packs needed, one monitor per site. Monthly price, then the yearly-billed price per month after the slash.
| Sites | UptimeVanguard | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 5 sites, HTTP only | €10.00 | $0 on Free (3-minute checks), or $34 / $29 for one responder |
| 25 sites, HTTP only | €40.00 | $59 / $50 (one responder, 10 + 50 monitors) |
| 100 sites, HTTP only | €130.00 | $84 / $71 (one responder, 10 + 100 monitors) |
UptimeVanguard costs less up to about 25 sites, with up to 5 status pages and every check type included. Each extra Better Stack responder adds $34 a month, and each extra public status page $15.
When Better Stack may fit better
- If you need on-call scheduling with phone call and SMS alerts in the same tool as your monitoring, Better Stack includes them.
- If you want logs, traces, error tracking and browser transaction checks on the same platform as uptime monitoring, Better Stack combines them.
For everything else, UptimeVanguard covers it in one price per site. See every feature and the full price list, compare us with Hyperping, UptimeRobot and Pingdom, or see all comparisons. Use cases: agencies, e-commerce and MSPs.
Sources
All Better Stack facts on this page come from these public pages, last checked on 2026-11-11:
- Better Stack pricing
- Better Stack docs: check frequency
- Better Stack docs: locations and regions
- Better Stack DPA
- Better Stack DPA schedules
Better Stack is a trademark of its owner. UptimeVanguard is not affiliated with Better Stack, Inc.. Something here out of date or wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.
Questions
Questions about switching from Better Stack
Is UptimeVanguard cheaper than Better Stack?
Up to about 25 sites, yes. 5 sites cost €10 a month and 25 sites €40, excl. VAT, with every check type, up to 5 status pages and unlimited team members. One Better Stack responder costs $34 a month with 10 monitors, and 50 more monitors cost $25. At 100 monitors, Better Stack’s monitor packs cost less.
Can UptimeVanguard alerts reach my on-call tool?
Yes. On the paid plan, send alerts to PagerDuty for on-call schedules, escalation and phone calls, or to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram, ntfy, webhooks, email and SMS through your own Vonage, Twilio or CM.com account.
Does UptimeVanguard have a free plan?
Yes: 3 sites checked every 5 minutes, with every check type and every alert channel. No card. Better Stack’s free plan has 10 monitors and heartbeats at a 3-minute interval.
Where is my data?
With us, the application, its databases and your check results are at Hetzner in Falkenstein, Germany, and our GDPR data processing agreement is public. Better Stack’s DPA allows processing in the United States.
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Monitor your first sites today, free.
Start with seven days with every check type on 5 sites, then the Free plan: 3 sites with every check type and every alert channel. No card. Website and API outages confirmed from a second region, from an EU company that keeps your data in Germany.