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Auth0 vs Better Stack

Customer identity platform from Okta
vs. Observability + uptime + incident management in one — modern alternative to Datadog

Auth0 website ↗Better Stack website ↗

Pricing tiers

Auth0

B2C Essentials
Starting at 500 MAUs. Pro MFA, RBAC, passwordless, SAML, 10 orgs.
$35/mo
B2B Essentials
Unlimited orgs, 3 SSO connections, RBAC.
$150/mo
B2C Professional
Starting at 500 MAUs. Includes attack protection, custom DB, enterprise MFA.
$240/mo
B2B Professional
5+ SSO connections, attack protection, custom DB.
$800/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 99.99% SLA, dedicated support.
Custom
Auth0 website ↗

Better Stack

Pay-as-you-go
Ingest $0.15/GB, retention $0.08/GB/month. Metrics $0.75/GB/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free
10 monitors + heartbeats, 1 status page. 3GB logs @ 3-day retention. 30GB metrics. 100K exceptions/mo. 5k session replays.
Free
Telemetry — Nano
$30/mo ($25 annual). 40 GB logs/traces/metrics. 30-day retention.
$30/mo
Responder License
$34/mo ($29 annual) per responder. Unlimited phone + SMS alerts. Required for on-call.
$34/mo
Telemetry — Micro
$120/mo. 160 GB.
$120/mo
Telemetry — Mega
$250/mo. 340 GB.
$250/mo
Telemetry — Tera
$500/mo. 700 GB.
$500/mo
Better Stack website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing b2c-essentials on Auth0 vs free on Better Stack.

MetricAuth0Better Stack
mau start500 MAU—
sso connections0 conns—

Features

Auth0 · 14 features

  • Attack Protection — Bot detection, brute-force protection, breached-password detection, suspicious I…
  • Auth0 Actions — Node.js + TS hooks that run during auth flows (login, post-login, signup, MFA). …
  • Auth0 FGA (OpenFGA) — Fine-grained relationship-based authorization (ReBAC). Based on Google Zanzibar.
  • Custom Database — BYO user DB: scripts in Actions read from your database and create Auth0 users o…
  • Custom Domain — Serve auth at auth.yourbrand.com with managed cert.
  • Enterprise SSO — SAML 2.0 + OIDC + AD/LDAP enterprise connections. Per-tenant or per-org.
  • Log Streaming — Stream tenant logs to Datadog, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Azure Sentinel, HTTP, Mixpane…
  • Machine-to-Machine — Client-credentials grant for backend services.
  • Multi-Factor Auth — SMS, Voice, Email, TOTP, WebAuthn (biometrics), Push (Guardian app), Duo.
  • Organizations — Multi-tenant B2B: orgs with invitations, roles, branding, enterprise connections…
  • Passkeys — FIDO2/WebAuthn passkey sign-in.
  • Passwordless — Email magic link + code, SMS code, WebAuthn.
  • RBAC — Roles, permissions, API scopes — attach to users or orgs.
  • Universal Login — Hosted login page with customization, multi-factor flows, passwordless, social, …

Better Stack · 13 features

  • Dashboards — SQL + chart-based dashboards.
  • Distributed Tracing — OpenTelemetry traces with span analysis.
  • Error Tracking — Sentry-style error capture per $0.000075/exception.
  • Heartbeats (Cron) — Dead-man-switch style alerts for cron/scheduled jobs.
  • Logs (formerly Logtail) — Centralized structured logging with live tail + SQL.
  • Metrics — Prometheus-compatible metrics ingest + visualization.
  • On-Call & Incidents — Schedules, escalations, incident response with postmortems.
  • Phone + SMS Alerts — Unlimited phone + SMS on Responder license.
  • Reporting & Analytics — +$5/member/month add-on.
  • Session Replay — Integrated with error events.
  • SQL Queries over Logs — ClickHouse-backed SQL on all ingested telemetry.
  • Status Pages — Hosted status pages with custom domain + brandable.
  • Uptime Monitoring — HTTP, keyword, ping, TCP, UDP monitors. Global checkpoints.

Developer interfaces

KindAuth0Better Stack
CLIAuth0 CLI—
SDKAuth0 Android, Auth0 iOS/Swift, @auth0/nextjs-auth0, Auth0 React SDK, Auth0 SPA.js SDK, Go Auth0 SDK, Node Auth0 Backend SDK, Python Auth0 SDKlogtail-ruby, pino-logtail / winston transport, python-logtail
RESTAuthentication API, Management APIBetter Stack REST API, Telemetry API
OTHER—OTLP (OpenTelemetry), Webhooks
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