Better Stack
Log management, tracing, metrics and uptime monitoring built on ClickHouse, billed per GB ingested plus per GB retained, with no per-host fees.
For log-heavy teams that want no per-host metering (incident-management responder seats are a separate $34/month), the bill is simply ingestion plus retention: $0.15/GB in and $0.08/GB per month kept in the US region. The EU region is cheaper at $0.10 and $0.05, the reverse of New Relic, which adds $0.05/GB for its EU data centre. Operations sit in Prague, but the contracting entity is Better Stack, Inc., a Delaware corporation under New York law.
- Headquarters
- 馃嚚馃嚳 Czechia
- Parent jurisdiction
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- 3 GB logs and 3 GB traces retained for 3 days; 30 GB metrics included.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- betterstack.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Log ingestion + retention / GB |
|---|
| $0.23 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included logs / month (GB)
- 0
- Log ingestion + retention / GB
- $0.23
- Monitored host / month
- $0
Pay-as-you-go logs, US region: $0.15/GB ingestion plus $0.08/GB per month of retention, so ~30 days of searchable retention costs about $0.15 + $0.08 = $0.23 per GB ingested. The EU region is cheaper: $0.10 ingest + $0.05/GB-month = $0.15/GB (Singapore $0.35 + $0.18). No per-host pricing: metrics are billed by data volume (30 GB included, then $0.75/GB-month US, $0.50 EU), so per_host_month is 0. Telemetry bundles with 30-day log retention also exist (e.g. Tera: 700 GB each of logs, traces and metrics for $750/month US, or $630/month billed yearly; $500/$420 in the EU), but they work out dearer per GB than pay-as-you-go for logs alone. Responder seats for incident management ($34/month) are separate. Operations are in Prague (Better Stack s.r.o.), but the contracting entity is Better Stack, Inc., a Delaware corporation, under New York law. DPA at betterstack.com/dpa is part of the terms.
Managed alternatives
At 3,000 GB log ingest / month, 50 monitored hosts. Adjust usage and requirements.
Better Stack: $8,280/yr estimated.
- ClickStack (ClickHouse Cloud): $1,080/yr estimated 路 $7,200/yr bill differenceEstimated ratesVendor ingest-cost claim, not a per-GB list price. Query compute is extra; the managed service is in beta.
- Axiom: $3,252/yr estimated 路 $5,028/yr bill differenceModeled ratesAssumes 10脳 log compression and 30 days of retention. Query compute overages are excluded.
- Elastic Observability: $3,924/yr estimated 路 $4,356/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you鈥檇 need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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