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Penpot vs Better Stack

Open-source design + prototyping platform — Figma alternative, self-hostable
vs. Observability + uptime + incident management in one — modern alternative to Datadog

Penpot (OSS) ↗Better Stack website ↗

Pricing tiers

Penpot

Free (Cloud)
$0. Unlimited files, unlimited projects, unlimited users. Full feature set.
Free
Self-Hosted (OSS)
Free forever. MPL 2.0 license. Docker Compose deploy. Full feature parity with cloud.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Self-hosted support contract, SLA, training.
Custom
Penpot (OSS) ↗

Better Stack

Pay-as-you-go
Ingest $0.15/GB, retention $0.08/GB/month. Metrics $0.75/GB/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free
10 monitors + heartbeats, 1 status page. 3GB logs @ 3-day retention. 30GB metrics. 100K exceptions/mo. 5k session replays.
Free
Telemetry — Nano
$30/mo ($25 annual). 40 GB logs/traces/metrics. 30-day retention.
$30/mo
Responder License
$34/mo ($29 annual) per responder. Unlimited phone + SMS alerts. Required for on-call.
$34/mo
Telemetry — Micro
$120/mo. 160 GB.
$120/mo
Telemetry — Mega
$250/mo. 340 GB.
$250/mo
Telemetry — Tera
$500/mo. 700 GB.
$500/mo
Better Stack website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Penpot vs free on Better Stack.

MetricPenpotBetter Stack
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Penpot · 16 features

  • Accessibility Checks — Contrast + color blindness.
  • Animations — Transitions + effects.
  • Auto Layout — Responsive components.
  • Comments — In-file discussion.
  • Components + Variants — Reusable elements.
  • Design Canvas — Vector drawing + layout.
  • Design Tokens (W3C) — Named design variables.
  • Figma File Import — Migrate from Figma.
  • Flex + Grid Layout — Layout constraints.
  • Inspector + Code Export — CSS/HTML/React/Flutter code.
  • Native SVG — Not a proprietary blob.
  • Plugins API — Extend Penpot.
  • Prototyping — Interactive flows.
  • Self-Host (MPL-2.0) — Docker deploy.
  • Shared Libraries — Team asset libraries.
  • Version History — File revisions.

Better Stack · 13 features

  • Dashboards — SQL + chart-based dashboards.
  • Distributed Tracing — OpenTelemetry traces with span analysis.
  • Error Tracking — Sentry-style error capture per $0.000075/exception.
  • Heartbeats (Cron) — Dead-man-switch style alerts for cron/scheduled jobs.
  • Logs (formerly Logtail) — Centralized structured logging with live tail + SQL.
  • Metrics — Prometheus-compatible metrics ingest + visualization.
  • On-Call & Incidents — Schedules, escalations, incident response with postmortems.
  • Phone + SMS Alerts — Unlimited phone + SMS on Responder license.
  • Reporting & Analytics — +$5/member/month add-on.
  • Session Replay — Integrated with error events.
  • SQL Queries over Logs — ClickHouse-backed SQL on all ingested telemetry.
  • Status Pages — Hosted status pages with custom domain + brandable.
  • Uptime Monitoring — HTTP, keyword, ping, TCP, UDP monitors. Global checkpoints.

Developer interfaces

KindPenpotBetter Stack
SDKPenpot Plugins APIlogtail-ruby, pino-logtail / winston transport, python-logtail
REST—Better Stack REST API, Telemetry API
OTHERDesktop App, Export + Inspect, Penpot Web, Self-Host (Docker)OTLP (OpenTelemetry), Webhooks
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