Nowlark and Better Stack compared
What a team of ten pays on each, and when you want monitoring and paging from one company rather than one price for the team.
Better Stack combines uptime monitoring, logs and on‑call. Nowlark is on‑call for a small team, at one price for the whole team, and takes alerts from the monitors you already run.
What 10 people pay#
| Tool and plan | 10 people a month |
|---|---|
Nowlark Team Plus: $49 a month for the whole team |
$49 |
Better Stack Responder: $34 a responder a month, or $29 billed yearly |
$340 |
Read on 6 November 2026 from each pricing page: monthly billing, before tax.
Better Stack's free plan includes 10 monitors with Slack and email alerts; on‑call scheduling comes with each paid responder licence.
What both do#
- A rota for who is on call, and escalation when nobody responds.
- Alerts on your phone from your monitoring.
- Company sign‑in.
Where they differ#
| Nowlark | Better Stack |
|---|---|
One price for the whole team |
Priced per responder |
No monitors or logs of its own: alerts come from Uptime Kuma, Healthchecks.io, Datadog, Grafana and others |
Uptime monitors and logs built in |
No phone calls or texts |
Unlimited phone calls and texts |
Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch; Android and Windows in the browser |
Apps for iPhone and Android |
Choose Better Stack if you want monitoring and paging from one company, with phone calls. Choose Nowlark if your monitoring is already in place and you want the whole team on call for one price.
Try it#
A team is free for 14 days, with no card. Point Uptime Kuma or Healthchecks.io at it to see your first alert.