PostShip or Better Stack
Better Stack wakes up the on-call. PostShip avoids having to wake them.
Better Stack is made for a team that has an on-call schedule and logs to dig through. PostShip is made for whoever deploys and wants to know, within the minute, whether the payment page still works.
What Better Stack does
An on-call and observability platform: monitors every 30 seconds, unlimited phone calls, incident management, logs and traces, billed per responder.
Line by line
| What you need to know | Better Stack | PostShip |
|---|---|---|
| The server answers (HTTP 200) | Yes | Yes |
| A 30-second intervalPro Plus probes every page every 30 seconds and runs the full check at the slightest change (on top of a full pass every minute); PostShip also checks on every deploy. | Yes | Yes |
| Phone call and SMS, unlimitedPostShip alerts by email, Slack or Discord. | Yes | No |
| On-call schedule, escalation between peopleWith PostShip, escalation moves to a second channel, not to a second person. | Yes | No |
| Logs, traces, application errors | Yes | No |
| Screenshot of the error | Yes | No |
| A scheduled task that didn't run | Yes | Yes |
| Public status page | Yes | Yes |
| Checks the second you deploy, previews includedA probe passes at its own pace and hopes to stumble on the failure. | No | Yes |
| The price, the button, the payment script are actually on the pageWith them, a keyword, or a Playwright test to write. | Partly | Yes |
| The checkout journey, replayed in orderWith them, Playwright tests to write, billed by the minute. | Partly | Yes |
| The domain actually serves the new build (CDN cache, alias, DNS) | No | Yes |
| A deploy that breaks is withdrawn, by hand or on its ownVercel, through the integration. | No | Yes |
| The share image, indexability, the sitemap | No | Yes |
| The monthly report sent to your clients | Not found on their site | Yes |
| Interface, alerts and support in French and English | Not found on their site | Yes |
What it costs
Their prices, recorded on October 6, 2026 on their pricing page, excluding VAT. Ours are those of the pricing page, to the day.
Free
Better Stack · 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, every 3 min, Slack and email alerts
PostShip · 5 URLs, 1 project, every 5 min, no card
One person on call
Better Stack · Responder $34/month ($29 yearly), per person
PostShip · Pro Plus €49/month — 100 URLs, 10 projects
More monitors
Better Stack · 50 more monitors: $25/month
PostShip · Pro €19/month — 25 URLs, 3 projects, every 2 min
Which one to choose
Better Stack is the right choice if
- You have an on-call rota, with a schedule and people to call at night.
- You want logs and traces next to the monitors.
- You want unlimited phone calls, from $29 per person per month.
PostShip is the right choice if
- You're one or 4 people, no on-call, and a per-person price makes no sense for you.
- The risk, for you, is Friday's deploy, not Sunday's outage.
- You want the pricing page, the checkout and the payment script checked the way a customer would see them.
Both, often. A team that has Better Stack for on-call can plug PostShip into its host: it checks every deploy and only alerts if that deploy broke something. The 2 tools don't wake up for the same reasons.