Better Stack Uptime vs Uptime Kuma
Better Stack Uptime and Uptime Kuma are both uptime monitoring software. Better Stack Uptime is a commercial product from Better Stack. Uptime Kuma is open source under MIT, with 93k 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 Uptime Kuma when
- You want an easy, UptimeRobot-style monitor on your own server for a homelab or small business.
Side by side
Uptime monitoring with heartbeats, on-call scheduling, phone and SMS alerts, incident management and status pages.
A self-hosted monitoring tool that checks HTTP, TCP, ping, DNS, Docker and more, sends alerts through 90+ notification services and publishes status pages.
It bundles many features, so check which plan includes the on-call and alerting you need.
Single-instance design, so it does not monitor from multiple locations or scale to very large numbers of checks.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
JavaScript, Vue, Node.js, SQLite and Socket.IO
Closed source, sold by Better Stack
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
No Wikipedia article of its own
93k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release 2.5.9.
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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.