Teams look past Sentry when the base plan stops being the whole bill, when one seat on the free plan is too few, or when data has to stay on their own servers under a license they can read. Most go to GlitchTip for a self-hostable, Sentry-compatible tool, to Honeybadger or AppSignal for a calmer bill, and to Datadog or New Relic when errors belong inside a wider monitoring contract.
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What each alternative does differently
1. GlitchTip
Open-source, Sentry-compatible error tracking you can host yourself · United States
GlitchTip receives events from Sentry's open source SDKs, so the application code can stay as it is. Its page lists error tracking, performance, uptime and logs, and does not list replay or profiling. The code is open source and runs in Docker Compose or Helm, which suits a data-residency brief.
Switch from Sentry if you want to keep the Sentry SDKs but host the receiving end yourself or pay a flat tier.
Pricing: Free for 1,000 events a month; Small is $15 a month for 100,000 events, Medium $50 for 500,000 and Large $250 for 3 million, all with unlimited projects and team members; self-hosting the open-source code costs only your own server. (free plan)
Full review: #12 of 12 in our ranking ·
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2. Honeybadger
Exception, uptime and log monitoring from a small independent shop · United States
Honeybadger's Team plan matches the Sentry Team plan on price and on 50K errors, then adds uptime monitors, cron checks and a status page to the same subscription. Its log product is capped per day rather than per month. Session replay is not on the plan page we checked.
Switch from Sentry if you want errors, uptime and a status page on one flat bill instead of per-feature meters.
Pricing: Developer is $0 with 5,000 errors a month, Team is $26 a month and Business $80 a month (both 50K errors), unlimited users on paid plans, overage of $0.0003 or $0.0006 per notification. (free plan)
Full review: #4 of 12 in our ranking ·
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3. Bugsnag
Stability monitoring for mobile and web releases · United States
Bugsnag is priced on event volume, with a free plan of one user, 7.5K events and 1M spans. Paid plans add automatic error prioritization and stability benchmarks, a release-health idea aimed at mobile and web apps. Enterprise is quoted.
Switch from Sentry if stability scoring per release matters more to you than SDK breadth.
Pricing: Free plan with 7.5K events and 1M spans a month for 1 user; Select and Preferred plans scale by event and span volume with monthly or yearly billing, and Enterprise is quoted with on-premises deployment available. (free plan)
Full review: #7 of 12 in our ranking ·
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4. Rollbar
Error grouping and workflow for production code · United States
Rollbar charges by occurrences and session replays, shown on one volume slider with monthly or annual billing. The free plan gives 5,000 occurrences. Grouping and deploy tracking are the core of it. Prices for paid tiers appear only after you choose a volume, so budgeting takes a quote step.
Switch from Sentry if you want an occurrence-based meter with deploy tracking and no extra product menu.
Pricing: Free plan includes 5,000 occurrences and 1,000 sessions a month with 30-day retention; Essentials scales from 10K to 50M occurrences with monthly or annual billing, and Advanced and Enterprise are higher tiers; paid prices are shown only after picking a volume. (free plan)
Full review: #5 of 12 in our ranking ·
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5. AppSignal
Application monitoring from an Amsterdam company · Netherlands
AppSignal sells application monitoring per request, with unlimited users, teams, applications and dashboards on every plan. It states that usage over plan will not produce a surprise invoice. It is a request-metered APM with errors inside it, not a replay or mobile tool.
Switch from Sentry if you want unlimited seats and a request-based bill without overage arithmetic.
Pricing: Free plan with 30K requests, 1 GB logging and 5-day retention; the paid plan is a published per-request price (EUR 219 a year, which works out at EUR 18.25 a month, for 250K requests), a 30-day trial needs no card, and usage over plan is not billed as a surprise. (free plan)
Full review: #1 of 12 in our ranking ·
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6. Airbrake
Error and performance monitoring on a tiered ladder · United States
Airbrake sells five error tiers, each with a set monthly error count, and treats performance monitoring as a separate price. The entry tier allows one user and one team, so seat limits come back at the bottom. A card is required to open a trial account.
Switch from Sentry if you prefer a fixed monthly error tier over a pay-as-you-go budget.
Pricing: Five monthly error tiers from $19 for 25,000 errors to $799 for 5 million, 10 percent off annual plans, with performance monitoring priced separately; a trial offers unlimited errors with 30-day retention. (free trial)
Full review: #8 of 12 in our ranking ·
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7. Datadog Error Tracking
Error tracking inside the Datadog observability platform · United States
Datadog Error Tracking bills by error volume, with a flat $25 a month below 50k errors, and is included for errors that arrive through APM traces and RUM events. Backend support lists Java, NodeJS, .NET, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP and C++. Value rises only if you already pay Datadog.
Switch from Sentry if you already run Datadog APM or RUM and want errors under that one contract.
Pricing: Error Tracking is billed by monthly error volume, with a flat $25 a month on annual billing for volumes below 50,000 errors; it is included at no extra cost for APM traces and RUM events. (none)
Full review: #9 of 12 in our ranking ·
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8. Raygun
Crash reporting, RUM and APM from Wellington · New Zealand
Raygun sells Crash Reporting, Real User Monitoring and APM as separate products with their own tiers. Crash Reporting has unlimited apps and members, priced per 100,000 errors with a 14-day trial. The split suits teams that want only one of the three and not the full platform.
Switch from Sentry if you only need crash reporting and want to buy real user monitoring on its own.
Pricing: Crash Reporting, Real User Monitoring and APM are sold separately in Basic, Team, Business and Enterprise tiers; Basic starts at $40 to $80 per 100K events on annual billing, with a 14-day free trial and overage of $0.001 to $0.002 per event. (free trial)
Full review: #2 of 12 in our ranking ·
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9. New Relic
Observability platform with an errors inbox · United States
New Relic prices the whole platform by data ingest and user type rather than by error count, with a perpetual free tier of 100 GB a month. Errors are one capability among more than fifty. Cost is hard to forecast from a single use case.
Switch from Sentry if errors should sit inside a full-stack observability platform with ingest-based pricing.
Pricing: Usage-based: a free tier of 100 GB data ingest a month and one full platform user, then $0.40 per GB (Standard) or $0.60 per GB (Data Plus), with full platform users from $10 to $418.80 a month depending on tier. (free plan)
Full review: #10 of 12 in our ranking ·
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10. LogRocket
Session replay with front-end error and log capture · United States
LogRocket is built around session replay and prices by captured sessions. Error events, logs and analytics events are unlimited on every plan, so a noisy release does not raise the bill. It is a front-end product first and does not replace back-end tracing or profiling.
Switch from Sentry if front-end user sessions explain your bugs better than stack traces do.
Pricing: Priced on captured sessions, starting at $176 a month for 25,000 sessions, with unlimited error, log and analytics events included; a 14-day trial needs no card, and Enterprise adds self-hosted deployments. (free trial)
Full review: #11 of 12 in our ranking ·
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11. Bugfender
Remote logs and crash reports from user devices · Spain
Bugfender is a mobile-first remote logging tool with crash reporting and user feedback, counted in log lines and devices. Retention on the free plan is 24 hours, and Team lifts it to 7 days. It is a poor fit for server-side web services.
Switch from Sentry if you ship iOS or Android apps and want remote device logs next to crash reports.
Pricing: Free plan with 100K daily log lines, 24-hour retention and up to 2,000 devices; Team from $39 a month, Pro from $89 and Premium from $449, with on-premises licensing starting at EUR 3,000 a month. (free plan)
Full review: #3 of 12 in our ranking ·
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Questions and answers
Can I export my issues and events from Sentry?
Yes, through the issues API and the Discover CSV export. The API returns up to 100 issues per call and needs a token with the event:read scope. The CSV is limited to 10 million rows or 1 GB. Neither moves alert rules, so rebuild those in the new tool.
Can I keep my Sentry SDKs after leaving Sentry?
Only with a tool that accepts them. GlitchTip states it is compatible with Sentry client SDKs, so changing the DSN is the main step. Honeybadger, Bugsnag, Rollbar, AppSignal, Airbrake, Raygun and the rest ask for their own SDK, so plan code changes per service.
Is cancelling by email enough to stop a Sentry renewal?
No. Sentry's terms say an email or phone request to cancel is not notice of non-renewal; you must cancel from account settings. Cancellation then applies only at the end of the current term, and fees including any on-demand usage are owed until that date.
How long does Sentry keep my error data?
On the Developer plan error data is kept for 30 days, and on Team, Business and Enterprise for 90 days. Logs, profiles and crons are kept for 30 days on all plans. If you need longer history, export before you cancel or ask the new vendor what its plan keeps.
Can I move my Sentry data to the EU region?
Not in place. Sentry says the data storage location, US (Iowa) or EU (Frankfurt), cannot be changed after you choose it, and the only way is a new organization. For a residency requirement, compare a different vendor or the self-hosted route in the same exercise.
Is the self-hosted Sentry free to run?
The software is, under the Functional Source License, which becomes Apache 2.0 after two years, but you pay for the servers and the time. Sentry says the self-hosted setup comes with no guarantees or dedicated support, and relies on the community for help.
