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PostDeploy as a Better Stack alternative

PostDeploy is $29 a month, flat, for 5 members, 100 uptime monitors, 200 cron jobs, error tracking and analytics. Better Stack charges $34 a month per responder seat, so two people cost $68 before the first extra monitor or heartbeat block. Stop paying per head. Switch to PostDeploy.

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Better Stack against PostDeploy

Their entry plan, line by line, against the package that also runs your error tracking and analytics.

Uptime and API monitors
Better Stack
10
PostDeploy
100
Cron and heartbeat jobs
Better Stack
10
PostDeploy
200
Alert channels
Better Stack
Slack and email
PostDeploy
Email, Slack, Discord
Analytics in the same package
Better Stack
Not offered
PostDeploy
Included
Pricing model past free
Better Stack
Metered per seat, monitor, heartbeat and page
PostDeploy
One package, $29 a month

Pricing, tier by tier

Free is 10 monitors, 10 heartbeats, 3-minute checks. Above it there is no plan, only a basket: $34 a month per responder seat, $25 per additional 50 monitors, $20 per additional 10 heartbeats, $15 per extra status page, plus per-GB telemetry. Unbranding one status page is $250 a month.

Price two people. Free members cannot see monitors, incidents or status pages, so both need a responder licence: 2 x $34 is $68 a month. Ten more heartbeats add $20, and the team sits at $88.

PostDeploy charges once, per organisation. PostDeploy is $29 a month: 10 projects, 5 members, 100 uptime monitors and 200 cron jobs.

Metering taxes every person who looks

For a small team the seat model taxes visibility. The teammate who only glances at a monitor still burns a $34 licence, and every new scheduled job moves you toward the next $20 heartbeat block.

Flat means the invoice stays the same whether you watch three things or 100. Going over an allowance blocks the next create until you remove something, never a surprise line on the invoice.

Move off Better Stack

Each step happens once. Your agent recreates the checks through MCP, and the 14-day trial covers the move.

  1. 1 Export monitors through the REST API or the Terraform provider: check frequency, method, headers, body, keyword assertions and expected status codes.
  2. 2 Let your agent recreate each check in PostDeploy through MCP.
  3. 3 Swap every heartbeat URL (uptime.betterstack.com/api/v1/heartbeat/<token>) in its script or CI job. A /fail call becomes ?state=fail, and an exit code goes in the URL path.
  4. 4 Point alerts at email, Slack, Discord, a webhook or Telegram.

Questions

How does PostDeploy compare with Better Stack's free tier?

PostDeploy has 100 uptime monitors and 200 cron jobs against Better Stack's 10 and 10, adds Discord to email and Slack, and includes error tracking and analytics in the same package.

What does Better Stack cost for two people?

$68 a month in responder seats, because free members cannot see monitors, incidents or status pages. Ten more heartbeats add $20. PostDeploy is $29 a month, flat, for 5 members.

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