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Better Stack ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 17 ads from Better Stack appeared on screen (all text ads), in 10 distinct ad copies across 3 industries and 12 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

betterstack.comLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3⁠–⁠4, 2026

ads shown
17
distinct ad copies
10
industries
3
topics
12

Logged-out ChatGPT from US connections, Oct 3⁠–⁠4, 2026. Each ad came after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad, so the counts show where Better Stack advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

Better Stack ad copies, most shown first

Each distinct ad copy in our capture, most shown first: the headline of a text ad, or the product and price of a shopping ad. Under each, up to five questions asked in conversations where it appeared, as we asked them; in every one, the ad appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

10 ad copies

  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    OpenTelemetry-native Tracing

    Text ad · shown 5 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how much does logrocket cost for a saas with 100,000 monthly sessions”Error Tracking · Oct 4, 3:06 am ET

    +4 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    Respond to Incidents Faster

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “knowbe4 training reminders not sending fix”Security Awareness Training · Oct 3, 10:52 pm ET
    2. “zenduty vs pagerduty pricing”Incident Management & On-Call · Oct 3, 11:30 pm ET

    +1 more conversation with this ad copy

  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    Modern Log Management

    Text ad · shown 2 times

    Our export holds no question text for these conversations.

  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    eBPF-powered Tracing

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is glitchtip good enough”Error Tracking · Oct 3, 11:23 pm ET
  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    Sentry at 1/6th the Price

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is sentry business plan worth it”Error Tracking · Oct 3, 11:23 pm ET
  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    Distributed Tracing (APM)

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    Free Uptime Monitoring

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “my xfinity internet drops every night around 9pm, how do i figure out if it's the modem or the line”Cable Internet · Oct 4, 12:08 am ET
  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    Log More, Pay Less

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how much do aiops tools like bigpanda cost for a large enterprise”Incident Management & On-Call · Oct 4, 3:03 am ET
  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    Never Miss Downtime

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • Better Stack, Inc.Sponsored

    OpenTelemetry-native Logs

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

Method

How this data was captured

What we ran, what counts as a shown ad, and what these numbers cannot tell you.

We used logged-out ChatGPT from US internet connections and started a new conversation for every question. Message 1 was the question. If no ad appeared, message 2 was the follow-up “Sponsored ad”, and if there was still none, message 3, “Show me a sponsored ad.”, was a last try. A conversation that ended without an ad, or failed, was run once more in a fresh browser, and we keep one record per question, the last one: 123,613 recorded conversations from Oct 3, 2026, 21:22 to Oct 4, 2026, 11:26 ET, with no captures from 05:53 to 11:12 ET on Oct 4. Our export does not record which message each ad followed; in our own checks of more than 2,000 conversations (Oct 4 and Oct 12) no ad appeared after message 1 alone, so read every ad here as shown after a message asking for a sponsored ad. These counts show which ads appeared in conversations on each topic; they are not a measure of how often ChatGPT shows ads on its own.

Only ads drawn on screen count as shown. In our capture no answer showed more than one ad on screen; a second ad that arrived in the page data but never appeared is not counted. Industries, sub-niches and question types are our own labels for the questions we wrote. Independent; not affiliated with OpenAI. Full methodWhy this is not an ad rateWhat the ads looked like