Alternatives
A Better Stack alternative for client websites
Better Stack offers uptime monitoring together with on-call scheduling, status pages and phone alerts. Pingtier is uptime and TLS certificate monitoring for web agencies and MSPs that look after many client websites. It does not include on-call or status pages. This page compares the two. Better Stack facts come from Better Stack's own public pages, as of November 2026 (checked 2026-11-08).
Pingtier opens as a free beta soon. Sign-up is not open yet.
Who each tool fits
Better Stack can fit you better if you need:
- On-call scheduling and alerting in the same tool.
- Phone call and SMS alerts.
- Status pages, with paid add-ons such as password protection and white-label.
- Heartbeat monitors for cron jobs.
- Checks from Australia.
- A screenshot and the error message recorded with each incident.
Pingtier can fit you better if you:
- Look after websites for clients and want monitors grouped per client.
- Want one price per client, with no separate seat licences.
- Use bot protection, and want a Blocked status instead of a false Down alert.
- Want one daily email about certificates that expire soon.
- Want draft messages to tell clients about an incident.
Pingtier has no on-call rotations, status pages, phone, SMS or push alerts, or public API.
Pingtier and Better Stack compared
Better Stack facts are as of November 2026 (checked 2026-11-08). Each Better Stack cell links its source. Better Stack's pricing page shows prices with the $ symbol only. Pingtier facts describe the beta.
| Pingtier | Better Stack | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 3 clients, 5 monitors each, 15 per organisation, checks every 3 minutes, one user | $0: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, Slack and email alerts (pricing). 3-minute checks (uptime), both checked 2026-11-08 |
| Paid price | Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT. | 10 monitors included. 50 more monitors: $25/month billed monthly or $21 billed yearly. Responder licence: $34/month monthly or $29 yearly (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Fastest check interval | Every 3 minutes on the free plan. Every 30 seconds on the paid plan, after beta | 30 seconds (API docs, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Regions | EU, US and Asia. Each monitor selects its regions, all by default | US, EU, Asia and Australia. Without a setting, checks run from all of them (API docs, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Outage confirmation | Down needs failures from at least 2 probes on different providers | Its website monitoring page says each HTTP incident is verified from at least 3 locations before an alert (website monitoring). A confirmation period sets how long to wait after a failure (docs), both checked 2026-11-08 |
| When a firewall or bot protection blocks checks | Blocked status, with the probe IP addresses and User-Agent to allow. No Down alert | The docs recommend allowlisting by User-Agent, because its IPs change without notice (FAQ, checked 2026-11-08) |
| TLS certificate expiry | Notices at 30, 14 and 7 days in one daily digest at 08:00 your time. An SSL issue opens at 14 days or less. Chain and hostname are checked too | Validity checked with every check. Expiry checked every hour (SSL docs). Alert lead time of 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 30 or 60 days, off by default in the API (API docs), both checked 2026-11-08 |
| Domain expiry | Not offered | Same lead time values as SSL expiry (API docs, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Alert channels | Slack and email, for Down and for recovery | SMS, email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, push and voice calls (uptime). The free plan has Slack and email only (pricing), both checked 2026-11-08 |
| On-call | Not offered | On-call scheduling built in (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Status pages | Not offered | 1 included. Each extra page $15/month. Password protection $50 per page a month. White-label $250 per page a month (pricing, checked 2026-11-08) |
| Team | One user on the free plan. The team comes with the paid plan, after beta. Roles: Owner, Admin, Technician | Several teams per organisation, with roles set per team. Custom roles need Enterprise (docs, checked 2026-11-08) |
Prices and features change. Check the linked pages for current details.
What Pingtier does for agencies
- Clients first. You add a client, then its hostnames. Add one hostname or paste a list.
- One price per client. Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT. The paid plan allows up to 10 enabled monitors per client.
- Checks. HTTP(S) status, keyword, response time (shown as charts) and TLS certificate (expiry, chain, hostname).
- A Today list. Down, Blocked and SSL issues appear in one list. You can acknowledge, assign and snooze them. You resolve a Down issue by hand. Blocked and SSL issues close by themselves.
- Client message drafts. Each incident has a draft for the client. Use Copy, Open in email or Mark as told. Pingtier never sends anything to your clients.
- Your time zone. Times show in your organisation's time, with the zone.
- Passwordless sign-in. Use a magic link, a passkey, Google or GitHub.
See pricing for the free and paid limits.
Moving from Better Stack
- List the website monitors you have today. Heartbeat monitors have no match in Pingtier.
- Group the sites by client.
- In Pingtier, add each client and paste its hostnames.
- Connect Slack, or use the email alerts.
- Allow the Pingtier probes in your bot protection. How Pingtier checks lists the IP addresses and the User-Agent.
How Pingtier confirms an outage
One failed check does not send an alert. Pingtier asks up to 3 more probes, each on a different provider, to check the site. It opens a Down incident only when at least 2 probes on different providers see the failure. Then it sends the Slack and email alert at once. It sends another alert when the site recovers.
Pingtier runs 8 IPv4 probes on 4 providers: 4 in Europe, 2 in the US and 2 in Asia. Each region has probes on at least 2 providers. If a site blocks visitors from a region, unselect that region for its monitor. The incident shows the result per region.
If bot protection answers every probe with a challenge, the monitor shows Blocked. Pingtier sends one email with the probe IP addresses and the User-Agent to allow. It does not open a Down incident.
Read the details on outage confirmation. Also compare Pingtier with Pingdom.
Start free beta
Pingtier opens as a free beta soon. Sign-up is not open yet.
Free during beta. Then EUR 4 per client a month, excl. VAT.
FAQ
Is this page about Better Uptime? It compares Pingtier with Better Stack's uptime monitoring, as described on betterstack.com. Better Stack's docs name its monitoring User-Agent 'Better Stack Better Uptime Bot'.
Can I sign up for Pingtier today? Not yet. Sign-up opens soon. The Start free beta button takes you to a page that says when sign-up opens.
Does Pingtier have on-call scheduling or phone alerts? No. Pingtier sends Slack and email alerts. It has no on-call rotations, phone calls, SMS or push alerts.
When did you check the Better Stack facts? We checked Better Stack's public pages on 2026-11-08. Prices and features can change, so check the linked pages for current details.