Better Stack vs Hostim.dev

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Better Stack compared with Hostim.dev
Detail	Better Stack	Hostim.dev
What it does	The AI SRE observability stack at a fraction of your current costs	Docker hosting on bare metal in Germany with managed databases and flat pricing
Stage	Established	Startup
Founded	Not given	2025
Based in	Not given	DE
Pricing model	Not given	Freemium
Pricing	Free tier includes 10 monitors, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions per month, and basic alerts. Responder licenses start at $29-34/month including unlimited phone/SMS. Telemetry bundles (Nano $25-38, Micro $100-150, Mega $210-315, Tera $420-630/month) provide logs, traces, and metrics retention. Addi	Apps from €2.50/mo (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), €4.50/mo (2 vCPU, 2 GB), €7.50/mo (3 vCPU, 4 GB), €13.50/mo (4 vCPU, 8 GB) for shared instances; dedicated app plans €18, €26, €36, €44 per month. Managed databases: PostgreSQL and MySQL free tier (256 MB), larger sizes from €1/mo up to €100/mo (100 GB). Redis
Key features	eBPF-based service map with network flow visualization OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation with no code changes AI SRE agent for agentic root cause analysis Smart incident merging for batch alerts Session replay with 2x speed playback Playwright-based transaction monitoring Unlimited phone call alerts and SMS SQL and drag-and-drop log querying Custom CSS and JavaScript status pages MCP server for LLM workflow integration	Deploy from Docker images, Git repositories, or Docker Compose files Managed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with daily backups kept 7 days Managed Redis cache service Persistent volumes with daily backups Resize CPU and RAM without downtime Automatic HTTPS with free SSL certificates Live logs and basic metrics for all apps Project isolation with private internal networking Automatic app restart on crashes Database replication with automatic failover on all plans
What makes it different	30x cheaper than Datadog with predictable pricing Agentic AI SRE for automated incident investigation No sampling or 80x more data ingestion for same cost 60-day money-back guarantee Sentry-compatible at 1/6th the price	Flat hourly pricing with no usage-based billing for bandwidth or requests Bare-metal EU infrastructure with GDPR compliance and no US cloud lock-in No Kubernetes knowledge required; simplified deployment and management
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	1
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	91 no change since last check	51 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	52	25
Citation Flow (Majestic)	61	34
Referring domains (Majestic)	16191	377

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