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Better Stack vs Hasura

Observability + uptime + incident management in one — modern alternative to Datadog
vs. Instant GraphQL + REST on your data sources — with permissions

Better Stack website ↗Hasura website ↗

Pricing tiers

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 ↗

Hasura

OSS (Community)
Free forever (Apache-2.0). Self-host GraphQL Engine v2.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
$0. 1 project. 60 req/min. Community support.
Free
Professional
$99/mo (starts). Usage-based compute + data pass-through. Production SLAs.
$99/mo
Advanced
Custom. Multi-region, dedicated, observability, SSO.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. On-prem / air-gap / advanced security.
Custom
Hasura website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Better Stack vs free on Hasura.

MetricBetter StackHasura
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

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.

Hasura · 14 features

  • Actions — Custom resolvers via HTTP.
  • Data Connector Hub — Build connectors to any source.
  • Event Triggers — DB changes → webhook.
  • GraphQL API — Auto GraphQL over relational + NoSQL.
  • Hasura DDN (v3) — Multi-source supergraph with OpenDD.
  • JWT Auth — Pluggable JWT verification.
  • Metadata Migrations — Git-versioned Hasura config.
  • Permissions — Row + column + session-based.
  • Query Caching — Edge caching with cache-control directive.
  • Remote Schemas — Merge external GraphQL into supergraph.
  • REST Endpoints — Turn any GraphQL op into REST.
  • Scheduled Triggers — Cron + one-off webhook triggers.
  • Subscriptions — Live queries via WS.
  • Webhook Auth — Custom auth via webhook.

Developer interfaces

KindBetter StackHasura
CLI—ddn CLI (v3), hasura CLI
SDKlogtail-ruby, pino-logtail / winston transport, python-logtail—
RESTBetter Stack REST API, Telemetry APIHasura REST Endpoints, Metadata API
GRAPHQL—Hasura GraphQL Engine
OTHEROTLP (OpenTelemetry), WebhooksData Connectors, Hasura Console
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