Better Stack Uptime vs Checkmate
Better Stack Uptime and Checkmate are both uptime monitoring software. Better Stack Uptime is a commercial product from Better Stack. Checkmate is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 11k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Better Stack Uptime when
- A small engineering team wants uptime checks, on-call and status pages in one inexpensive tool.
- Pick Checkmate when
- You want an Uptime Kuma-style monitor that also tracks server CPU, memory and disk.
Side by side
Uptime monitoring with heartbeats, on-call scheduling, phone and SMS alerts, incident management and status pages.
A self-hosted monitor for website uptime, response times, server hardware and incidents, with status pages.
It bundles many features, so check which plan includes the on-call and alerting you need.
AGPL license, and hardware monitoring needs its separate agent.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
TypeScript, JavaScript and MongoDB
Closed source, sold by Better Stack
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
No Wikipedia article of its own
11k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v3.13.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.