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Better Stack vs telemetry.dev
Short answer: Pick Better Stack if you want all-in-one observability with AI assistance; pick telemetry.dev if you want LLM tracing with OpenTelemetry. Better Stack has a free plan, paid from $25/month; telemetry.dev has a free plan, paid from $25/month.
Better StackUptime monitoring, incidents, logs and status pages
telemetry.devTrace LLM calls and AI agents with OpenTelemetry.Which to pick
Pick Better Stack if you want…
- All-in-one observability with AI assistance
- Uptime & incident monitoring
- Integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams or Linear (on Better Stack's list, not telemetry.dev's)
Pick telemetry.dev if you want…
- LLM tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Integrations with TypeScript SDK, Python SDK or OpenAI (on telemetry.dev's list, not Better Stack's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Better Stack:Better Stack provides unified uptime monitoring, incident management, logs, metrics, traces and AI-native error tracking.
- telemetry.dev:Telemetry.dev provides OpenTelemetry-based observability for LLM calls and AI agents, tracking latency, cost, token usage and errors.
- Best for
- Better Stack:All-in-one observability with AI assistance
- telemetry.dev:LLM tracing with OpenTelemetry
- Who it’s for
- Better Stack:DevOps, SREs and engineering teams needing full-stack observability.
- telemetry.dev:Developers building AI applications and agents who need tracing and cost monitoring.
- Pricing
- Better Stack:Freemium
- telemetry.dev:Freemium
- Starting price
- Better Stack:$25/month (Telemetry bundles – Nano)
- telemetry.dev:$25/month (Pro)
- Free plan or trial
- Better Stack:Free plan (Free (personal projects)) · Free trial
- telemetry.dev:Free plan (Free)
- Plans
- Better Stack:Free (personal projects) $0 · Responder $34 per month · AI SRE tokens $5 per million tokens · Slack & Teams incident $9 per responder license per m per month · Telemetry bundles – Nano $25 per month billed yearly
- telemetry.dev:Free $0 per month · Pro $25 per month · Team $50 per month
- Works with
- Better Stack:Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
- telemetry.dev:TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude SDK, Google Gen AI, Amazon Bedrock, Vercel AI SDK
Better Stack features
- AI-native SRE. Claude-style AI analyzes logs, metrics, traces and suggests tickets, merges incidents and writes post-mortems.
- eBPF service map. Zero-code instrumentation creates a live service map for tracing and SLO tracking.
- Slack/Teams incident workflow. Resolve incidents directly in Slack or Microsoft Teams with templated automations.
- Unified telemetry bundles. Logs, traces and metrics are ingested together with OpenTelemetry support and SQL/PromQL query builder.
- Real-user monitoring. Session replay, auto-captured events and web-vitals with correlation to backend telemetry.
telemetry.dev features
- Unified Traces. Shows model calls, tool steps and retrievals in a single trace with duration per step.
- Cost & Latency Metrics. Displays token usage, spend and latency per model, provider and environment.
- SDKs & Exporters. First-party TypeScript and Python SDKs plus OTLP/HTTP exporter support for any language.
- Prompt Redaction. Option to disable prompt capture per environment to keep sensitive data out of storage.
- Filtering & Search. Search traces by name and filter by status, environment, framework or session.
- Retention Controls. 14-day retention on Free plan, configurable longer retention on paid plans.
Better Stack vs telemetry.dev FAQ
What is the difference between Better Stack and telemetry.dev?+
Better Stack: General uptime, logs and incident monitoring, not specialized for LLM traces.
Should I use Better Stack or telemetry.dev?+
Pick Better Stack if you want all-in-one observability with AI assistance, uptime & incident monitoring or integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams or Linear (on Better Stack's list, not telemetry.dev's). Pick telemetry.dev if you want LLM tracing with OpenTelemetry or integrations with TypeScript SDK, Python SDK or OpenAI (on telemetry.dev's list, not Better Stack's).
Is Better Stack or telemetry.dev free?+
Better Stack has a free plan (Free (personal projects)); paid plans start at $25/month (Telemetry bundles – Nano). telemetry.dev has a free plan; paid plans start at $25/month (Pro).
Which is cheaper, Better Stack or telemetry.dev?+
They start at the same price: Better Stack's Telemetry bundles – Nano plan ($25/month) and telemetry.dev's Pro plan ($25/month) cost the same.
Do Better Stack and telemetry.dev integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Better Stack lists Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub and 8 more; telemetry.dev lists TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, OpenAI, Anthropic and 6 more.
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