YakGuard vs Better Stack
An honest comparison. The short version: Better Stack's free tier is generous but its paid monitoring starts at $29/mo plus per-seat Responder licenses for phone alerting; YakGuard's Pro is $14/mo annual flat, with verified alerts and broken-link crawling Better Stack doesn't have.
| YakGuard | Better Stack | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan checks | 20 @ 5 min | 10 @ 3 min |
| Entry paid plan | $14/mo annual — 50 checks @ 1 min | $29/mo — 50 monitors @ 30s |
| Phone/SMS alert pricing | credits included per plan | per-seat Responder license ($29-34/seat/mo) |
| Verified (multi-location) alerts | ✓ before every page | ✓ |
| Fastest check interval | 1 min | 30s (paid) |
| SSL + domain expiry monitoring | ✓ free | ✓ |
| Broken-link crawling | ✓ | ✗ |
| Security-header & Core Web Vitals checks | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI incident post-mortems | ✓ | ✓ (AI features) |
| Status pages | ✓ + subscribers + badges | ✓ (1 free) |
| Escalation & on-call | ✓ Pro plan, no per-seat fees | ✓ per-seat |
| White-label status pages | ✓ Business plan | paid add-on |
Switch in minutes
Recreate your monitors with one script against the
REST API
— POST /api/v1/monitors
with a label and URL is all it takes.