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Okayline: a one-time-price alternative to Better Stack
Better Stack is a full observability platform: uptime, on-call, logs and status pages. If all you need is a clean public status page, Okayline runs on your own GitHub account for a one-time price.
Okayline vs Better Stack, side by side
From Better Stack's public pricing page. An honest look, including where Better Stack does more.
| Okayline | Better Stack | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $99 one-time (Pro) · $0 (Lite) | Free tier for personal projects (10 monitors, 1 status page); Responder licence $34/mo ($29/mo yearly); extra public status page $15/mo ($12/mo yearly) |
| Automatic uptime checks | About every 5 minutes, via GitHub Actions (Pro) | Up to 30-second checks, multi-location |
| Subscriber notifications | RSS feed | 1,000 subscribers included; extra 1,000 for $40/mo |
| Custom CSS | Edit the files directly | $15 per page per month |
| On-call, phone/SMS alerts | No | Yes |
| Hosting | Your GitHub repo + GitHub Pages | Vendor-hosted |
| Your data | Plain files in your repo | In the vendor's account |
What a status page subscription costs you over time
Pick the plan you pay for now, or the one you were about to buy. List prices from each vendor's own pricing page, checked October 17, 2026.
Okayline Pro is $99 once per organization, with lifetime updates and a 14-day refund. The Lite version is free (MIT).
What's counted: list price × years, nothing else. Not counted: intro or promo discounts, taxes, currency conversion, and:
- Better Stack: One responder licence, which includes 1 status page. Leaves out its free tier (10 monitors and heartbeats plus 1 status page, for personal projects), extra responders, extra status pages ($15/mo, $12/mo yearly), extra subscribers ($40 per 1,000 a month), white-label and other add-ons, and telemetry usage.
- Okayline: The $99 assumes free GitHub Pages and Actions on a public repo. Pages on a private repo needs a paid GitHub plan, and a custom domain costs whatever your registrar charges. Higher-tier plans include things Okayline doesn't do (email/SMS subscribers, on-call, 30-second checks), so only compare a plan whose features you'd actually drop.
Sources: betterstack.com/pricing (checked October 17, 2026). Prices can change; check each vendor's site. Orvian Market isn't affiliated with Better Stack.
Which one fits you?
Both are good tools. Here's how to pick.
Pick Okayline if…
- You want a public status page without per-page or per-responder fees
- Your team already lives on GitHub
- RSS updates are enough for your users
Stay with Better Stack if…
- You need on-call schedules, phone or SMS alerts, or 30-second checks
- You want logs, metrics and incidents in one hosted platform
FAQ
Is Okayline a one-time payment?
Yes. $99 once for the Pro template. Hosting on GitHub Pages is free for public repos.
Is there a free version?
Yes. Okayline Lite is MIT-licensed on GitHub.
Are there free alternatives to Better Stack?
Yes. Better Stack's free tier includes 10 monitors and 1 status page for personal projects, and its docs show a custom status.yourdomain.com setup. Open-source options are worth a look too: Upptime (MIT) also runs on GitHub Actions and Pages and is the closest free match; Gatus (Apache-2.0) and Uptime Kuma (MIT) are self-hosted apps you run on your own server or container; cState (MIT) is a static Hugo status page you update yourself. Our own Okayline Lite (MIT) is a free manual-status page. What the $99 gets you: a dependency-free template (Node 20, no npm install) set up from one config file, automatic checks about every 5 minutes, 90-day uptime bars, Markdown incidents and scheduled maintenance, a fill-in form at /admin for posting incidents, RSS, a JSON API and a status badge, plus a 14-day refund. If a free tool already does what you need, use it.
Does Okayline cost anything beyond $99?
Not if your status repo is public: GitHub Pages and Actions are free there. GitHub Pages on a private repo needs a paid GitHub plan, and a custom domain costs whatever your registrar charges.
Is Okayline affiliated with Better Stack?
No. It's an independent product built from scratch.
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Better Stack pricing is from its public pricing page (https://betterstack.com/pricing), checked October 17, 2026, and may change. Always confirm on the vendor's site. Orvian Market is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Better Stack or its owners. Better Stack is a trademark of its owner, used here only to describe and compare.
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