YT · YOUTUBE// 4h agoPRODUCT UPDATE

Better Stack shifts metrics billing to GB

Better Stack now bills new metrics sources and 2026+ accounts by retained data volume, using a GB-based model with 30 GB included free each month and rates of $0.50/GB/month billed annually or $0.75/GB/month billed monthly. The company says this makes telemetry pricing easier to understand and aligns metrics with its logs and traces billing. Existing customers on pre-2026 accounts can remain on the legacy datapoints model, with an opt-in path to switch if GB pricing is a better fit.

// ANALYSIS

Clearer billing is the actual product here: Better Stack is turning metrics pricing into something customers can estimate without reverse-engineering datapoints or cardinality rules.

–New metrics billing is based on retained GB per month, not datapoints, for new accounts and new sources.
–Better Stack keeps legacy datapoints billing for older accounts to avoid surprise increases.
–Existing users can request a one-way migration to GB pricing if it is cheaper or simpler for them.
–The move makes Better Stack’s telemetry stack more internally consistent because logs, traces, and metrics now follow the same volume-based mental model.
–Competitive angle: this is a direct bet that observability buyers value predictability over pricing schemes that are harder to model up front.

// TAGS

observabilitypricingmetricsbillingtelemetrybetter-stacksaas

DISCOVERED

4h ago

2026-04-24

PUBLISHED

4h ago

2026-04-24

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

Better Stack