PageHum vs Better Stack
Better Stack suits
Teams who need real on-call: phone alerts, schedules, escalations, 30-second checks, and logs.
PageHum suits
A small site’s owner who wants traffic, speed, errors, broken links, uptime, and a status page from one script, and the one problem worth fixing named each week.
| Compared | PageHum | Better Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 2 sites, 40,000 pageviews a month, the board, a status page, and the badge. source | 10 monitors and heartbeats every 3 minutes, 1 status page, Slack and email alerts. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Cheapest paid plan | Starter $9/mo ($90/yr): 5 sites, 100,000 pageviews, 90 days. source | Responder $34/mo ($29 yearly) per license, with unlimited phone and SMS alerts. source (opens in a new tab) |
| What it covers | Privacy analytics, real-visitor speed (load, LCP, INP, CLS), JavaScript error counts, broken links, uptime, page checks, browser flows, and a status page, from one script. source | Uptime, heartbeats, browser checks, status pages, on-call, logs, traces, error tracking, and RUM. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Cookies and identifiers | No cookies and no identifiers; counts only. The script is about 5 KB gzipped. source | Data in EU regions by default; RUM cookie model not stated. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Uptime checks | Homepage every 5 minutes from 1 region on Free, 3 on Starter, 4 on Pro and Ultra; extra pages every 30 to 5 minutes. source | Every 30 seconds at best, from at least 4 locations, an incident after 3 agree. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Status page | On every plan, with incidents and maintenance; your own domain from Starter. source | 1 included; more, custom CSS, passwords, and white-label as add-ons. source (opens in a new tab) |
| Alerts | Push on Free; email, Slack, Discord, Teams, and signed webhooks on paid plans. No SMS or phone calls yet. source | Phone, SMS, push, email, Slack, Teams, Zapier, webhooks. source (opens in a new tab) |
| API and MCP | REST API and an MCP server on every plan (60 calls an hour on Free). source | REST API, Terraform, and an MCP server. source (opens in a new tab) |
| History kept | 40 days on Free, 90 days on Starter, 13 months on Pro and Ultra. source | Unlimited incident history; telemetry 3 days free. source (opens in a new tab) |
Where Better Stack is better
- Real on-call: unlimited phone and SMS, schedules, and escalations.
- 30-second checks confirmed from several locations.
- Logs, traces, and metrics, and SOC 2.
Where PageHum is better
- Built for one owner or a small team: $9 covers 5 sites, where Better Stack's paid plan starts at $29 to $34 a responder.
- Privacy analytics and the week's one problem, not just availability.
- A status page on your own domain without add-ons.
What PageHum doesn’t do
- No session replay or heatmaps.
- Counts only: no per-visitor paths, user profiles, or cohorts.
- One funnel per site, not many.
- No stack traces: error messages, pages, browsers, and counts.
- Homepage checks every 5 minutes, and no SMS or phone alerts yet.
- Young: launched in 2026, so a short track record and short histories.
Switching
Point PageHum at the same homepage and pages. Keep Better Stack if you need phone escalations or logs.
Better Stack is a trademark of its owner; PageHum isn’t affiliated with it. Facts were checked October 13, 2026 and will be checked again by January 13, 2027. Something wrong or out of date? Write to hello@pagehum.com.