One subscription instead of four
Teams running their own servers usually buy server management, log search, uptime checks and an on-call rota from four vendors, on four invoices nobody adds up. For 3 people on the rota that comes to $164 a month. Provisore Scale includes all four for $59. Prices checked 12 September 2026.
The four things, and what they cost separately
A team running a dozen sites across a few servers, with somebody carrying the phone.
| Capability | Bought separately | Monthly | Included from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Server management and zero-downtime deploys | Laravel Forge$19/month on Growth | $19 | Every planProvisioning, hardening, atomic releases with instant rollback, managed databases, daemons, cron, firewall and free SSL. On every plan, because it all runs on hardware you already pay for. |
| Log shipping, search across servers, and retention | Better Stack Logs$45/month for the Nano bundle, 40 GB and 30-day retention | $45 | ProShip the files you choose from each server and search them across the fleet, with a daily budget of 500,000 lines per monitored server. Provisore counts lines and Better Stack sells gigabytes, so the two do not convert. |
| Uptime checks made from outside your server | Better Stack Uptime10 monitors free, then $25/month for 50 more | $25 | ProHTTP, WebSocket and TCP checks made from outside the server, so they catch failures a check on the box cannot see. No per-monitor charge. |
| On-call rotations and escalation policies | PagerDuty$25/user/month on Professional, billed monthly | $75 | ScaleRotations, overrides and escalation policies, with incidents opened automatically by an alert rule crossing a threshold or a monitor failing to answer. Team members are unlimited, so the rotation does not get more expensive as more people join it. |
| Total, 3 people on the rota | $164 |
Four subscriptions
Plus your provider’s bill for the machines, which is the same on both sides and left out of both.
Provisore Scale
All four for unlimited team members, with 20 monitored servers included and 30-day log retention. About $1260 a year less.
Where the separate tools are still the right answer
The swap holds while everything you page on is a server or site Provisore manages.
Their tools monitor anything. Ours monitors your servers.
Better Stack and PagerDuty are general-purpose. They will watch a third-party API, a Kubernetes cluster, a payment provider's status page. Provisore's alerting covers the servers and sites it manages. If your on-call surface is wider than your own estate, buy the general-purpose tool.
PagerDuty does more than rotate a rota
Hundreds of integrations, incident workflows with conditionals, round-robin scheduling, custom incident roles. Provisore has rotations, overrides, escalation policies and incidents opened from your own alert rules and monitors. That covers paging for your own servers. It does not replace an incident practice built around PagerDuty.
Log volume is measured differently, and at scale that matters
Provisore budgets lines per server per day. Better Stack sells gigabytes, with pay-as-you-go above the bundle. The line budget covers a busy web server. For a high-volume pipeline, something priced in gigabytes fits better.
Questions about this arithmetic
Is this comparing like with like?
For a team that wants deploys, log search, uptime checks and a rota for its own servers, yes. Better Stack and PagerDuty also cover systems Provisore does not manage, and past that line they are the better buy.
Why 3 responders on the on-call line?
PagerDuty is priced per user, and 3 is the smallest rota that gives each person nights off. Provisore's price does not move with headcount, so the same rota costs the same with ten people in it.
What if I only need one or two of these?
Then buy one or two of these. A solo developer with 3 servers and no rota wants Solo and none of this page. The arithmetic pays off once you already hold several subscriptions.
Are these prices current?
Every third-party figure was read from the page it links to on 12 September 2026. Follow the links before you decide on them, and tell us if one has drifted.
What one application costs here against a platform that runs it for you is on the comparison page.
Cancel three things instead of adding a fourth.
Fourteen days on any plan, card required, and moving between plans deletes nothing.