March 29, 2026 (3mo ago)
Written by Temps Team
Last updated March 29, 2026 (3mo ago)
Sentry's free plan caps at 5,000 errors/month. The Developer plan costs $26/month, and the Team plan is $31/seat/month — $155/month for a 5-person team. If that pricing model doesn't fit, the best alternatives in 2026 are: Temps (best all-in-one self-hosted), GlitchTip (lightest Sentry-compatible drop-in), Highlight.io (best open-source full-stack), Bugsnag (best for mobile), Rollbar (best automated grouping), Airbrake (simplest lightweight option), Honeybadger (best noise reduction), and LogRocket (best session-replay-first debugging).
Temps is the standout self-hosted pick: it exposes a Sentry-compatible DSN, so you migrate by changing one URL in your existing Sentry SDK — your error data stays on your own server — and it bundles analytics, session replay, uptime monitoring, and git-push deploys into one Rust binary at ~$6/mo (free to self-host). For pure error-tracking-only with a Sentry SDK swap, GlitchTip is a zero-code migration that runs on 512MB RAM.
Related: How to set up error tracking without Sentry | Sentry vs Temps cost breakdown
This is the question driving most teams to look for alternatives. Sentry's pricing has changed significantly in the last 18 months:
| Sentry Plan | Monthly Cost | Error Limit | Session Replay | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 5,000 errors/mo | Not included | 1 |
| Developer | $26/mo | 50,000 errors/mo | Add-on ($29/mo) | 1 |
| Team | $31/seat/mo | 100,000 errors/mo | Add-on | Per seat |
| Business | Custom | Unlimited | Included | Custom |
For a 5-person engineering team: Sentry Team = $155/month for error tracking only. Add the session replay add-on and you're past $200/month. Add performance monitoring and the price climbs further. The per-event cap means one noisy endpoint on a busy Friday can burn through your monthly quota in an hour.
That's the math that pushes teams toward alternatives. The rest of this guide covers eight of the best options in 2026.
| Tool | Type | Free Tier | Paid Starting Price | Per-Event Pricing | Self-Hosted | Session Replay | Analytics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temps | Bundled PaaS | Unlimited (self-hosted) | ~$6/mo (Cloud) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GlitchTip | Open Source | Unlimited (self-hosted) | $15/mo (hosted) | No | Yes | No | No |
| Highlight.io | Open Source SaaS | 500 sessions/mo | $150/mo (Business) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Bugsnag | SaaS | 7,500 events/mo | $47/mo (Team) | Yes | No | No | No |
| Rollbar | SaaS | 5,000 events/mo | $31/mo (Essentials) | Yes | No | No | No |
| Airbrake | SaaS | None | $19/mo (Dev) | Yes | No | No | No |
| Honeybadger | SaaS | None | $41/mo (Solo) | Yes | No | No | No |
| LogRocket | SaaS | 1,000 sessions/mo | $69/mo (Team) | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Prices reflect published rates as of March 2026. Every tool except Temps and GlitchTip charges more as your error volume or team size grows.
The application performance monitoring market reached $10.28 billion in 2025 and is growing at 11.2% annually (Grand View Research, 2025). Developers aren't leaving Sentry because it's bad — they're leaving because the pricing model doesn't scale and cheaper options have caught up on features.
Per-event pricing means you pay more when things go wrong. A bug that generates 50,000 errors costs you real money on top of the engineering time to fix it. Some teams admit to sampling errors at 10–20% to control costs — effectively ignoring 80–90% of their errors to avoid a bill.
The average development team uses 6.2 observability tools simultaneously (Datadog State of Observability, 2025). Each tool has its own pricing page, billing cycle, and SDK. Consolidating error tracking, analytics, session replay, and uptime monitoring into one platform cuts both cost and cognitive overhead.
Temps is the standout self-hosted Sentry alternative because it exposes a Sentry-compatible DSN — a true drop-in: you change one URL in your existing Sentry SDK and your error data stays on your own server. On top of that drop-in error tracking, it replaces six paid SaaS tools with a single Rust binary: deployments, web analytics, session replay, error tracking, uptime monitoring, and managed databases. Self-hosting on a Hetzner VPS costs about $6/month — with everything included, no per-event caps.
Sentry-compatible DSN — Temps exposes a Sentry-compatible DSN endpoint, so you migrate by changing a single URL in your existing @sentry/react, @sentry/node, or sentry-python config. No code changes needed, no proprietary SDK to learn. The official Sentry SDK continues to work as-is, pointed at your Temps instance.
Auto-rollback on health failure — Health checks poll every 5 seconds, require 2 consecutive successes to mark a deployment healthy. If HTTP errors persist for 60 seconds, the proxy route reverts automatically. This is verified behavior in crates/temps-deployments/src/jobs/deploy_image.rs. Standalone error trackers like GlitchTip can't auto-rollback your deployment; Temps can because it is the deployment platform.
Pingora reverse proxy (1T+ req/day) — Temps uses Pingora, the reverse proxy Cloudflare built and open-sourced. Cloudflare uses it to handle over a trillion requests per day. This is the same proxy layer handling your deployments, SSL termination, and health check routing.
| Capability | Sentry | Temps |
|---|---|---|
| Error tracking | ✅ | ✅ |
| Sentry SDK compatible | ✅ (native) | ✅ (DSN swap) |
| Session replay | Add-on ($29/mo) | Included |
| Web analytics | ❌ | Included |
| Uptime monitoring | ❌ | Included |
| Git-push deployments | ❌ | Included |
| Auto-rollback on errors | ❌ | Included |
| Per-event pricing | Yes | No |
| Self-hosted | Yes (complex) | Yes (single binary) |
| Cost (5-person team) | $155+/mo | ~$6/mo |
| Tool Category | SaaS Cost | With Temps |
|---|---|---|
| Error Tracking (Sentry Team) | $155/mo (5 seats) | Included |
| Analytics (Plausible) | $9/mo | Included |
| Session Replay (FullStory) | $99/mo | Included |
| Uptime Monitoring (Pingdom) | $15/mo | Included |
| Deployments (Vercel Pro) | $100/mo (5 seats) | Included |
| Total | $378/mo | ~$6/mo |
Teams that want error tracking, analytics, session replay, and deployments in one self-hosted tool. Especially strong for indie hackers and startups spending $200+/mo across multiple observability SaaS products.
Temps is newer than Sentry, so its community is smaller and it ships fewer language-specific SDK integrations of its own (though the Sentry-compatible DSN means the 100+ official Sentry SDKs already work against it). That newness is also why it ships the bundled observability stack — analytics, session replay, uptime, deployments — that older error trackers were never built around. Enterprise extras like SSO/SAML are in development (available in Temps EE). If you need the full Sentry feature set for a large enterprise today, Sentry or Highlight.io may fit better.
GlitchTip is a lightweight, open-source error tracker compatible with Sentry's SDK ecosystem. It runs on 512MB of RAM and works with any Sentry SDK — change one DSN URL, keep everything else. No code changes required.
Sentry has SDKs for over 100 platforms. GlitchTip inherits all of them. Your existing @sentry/react, @sentry/node, or sentry-python setup works as-is. That makes migration a five-minute job instead of a weekend project.
| Plan | Price | Events |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted | Free | Unlimited |
| Basic (hosted) | $15/mo | 100,000 |
| Pro (hosted) | $30/mo | 500,000 |
| Enterprise (hosted) | $50/mo | 2,000,000 |
Teams already using Sentry SDKs who want to self-host without changing application code. GlitchTip is the fastest, lowest-friction migration path away from Sentry.
Highlight.io combines error tracking, session replay, and log management in a single open-source platform. They raised $8M in Series A funding in 2023 and have built a product that competes with Sentry + LogRocket combined.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | 500 sessions/month |
| Startup (under $1M raised) | Free |
| Business | $150/mo |
| Enterprise | Custom |
Teams that want session replay and error tracking in one open-source tool and have the infrastructure expertise to self-host it.
Bugsnag processes over 1 billion errors daily across mobile and web applications (Bugsnag, 2026). It's the most mobile-focused error tracker on this list, with first-class SDKs for iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, and Unity.
Stability scoring is the standout feature: Bugsnag assigns each release a stability score based on the percentage of sessions that are error-free. Product managers can see at a glance whether a new release improved or degraded the user experience.
| Plan | Price | Events |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 7,500/mo |
| Team | $47/mo | 25,000/mo |
| Business | $99/mo | 100,000/mo |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
Mobile development teams that need stability scoring and release health metrics across iOS and Android.
Rollbar uses machine learning to group errors with 95% accuracy and automatically links errors to the code change that introduced them. The "Suspected Deploy" feature cross-references error timestamps with deployment history to identify which release caused each issue.
The average MTTR for software incidents is 5.1 hours (Atlassian, 2025). Tools that shorten that window directly save money — downtime costs businesses an average of $5,600 per minute (IBM, 2025).
| Plan | Price | Events |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 5,000/mo |
| Essentials | $31/mo | 25,000/mo |
| Advanced | $71/mo | 100,000/mo |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
Teams that deploy frequently and need automated root cause analysis. Rollbar's AI-assisted grouping and deploy correlation reduce triage time significantly.
Airbrake has tracked errors since 2008 — one of the oldest tools in this space. It's deliberately minimal: error tracking and performance monitoring without feature bloat.
| Plan | Price | Events |
|---|---|---|
| Dev | $19/mo | 10,000/mo |
| Team | $59/mo | 50,000/mo |
| Business | $99/mo | 250,000/mo |
Small teams that want straightforward error tracking without learning a complex tool. No self-hosted option, no free tier.
Honeybadger tracks errors, uptime, and cron job check-ins in a single tool. Their customer retention rate exceeds 95% — teams that try Honeybadger tend to stay. Default settings are tuned to minimize alert fatigue: aggressive error grouping, auto-reopen on recurrence, and a dashboard that prioritizes new issues.
| Plan | Price | Events |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | $41/mo | 25,000/mo |
| Team | $83/mo | 100,000/mo |
| Business | $166/mo | 500,000/mo |
Small bootstrapped teams that value signal over noise. Strong cron and background job monitoring.
LogRocket records every user session as a video-like replay and layers error events on top. When a user reports a bug, you watch their session instead of reading a stack trace. This catches layout glitches, confusing UX flows, and timing-dependent bugs that traditional error tracking misses.
| Plan | Price | Sessions |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1,000/mo |
| Team | $69/mo | 10,000/mo |
| Professional | $199/mo | 25,000/mo |
Frontend teams that debug through user behavior rather than stack traces. Error tracking is secondary to session replay in LogRocket's design.
| If you need... | Best choice |
|---|---|
| Error tracking + analytics + session replay + deployments in one | Temps (~$6/mo all-in, or free self-hosted) |
| Sentry SDK swap with zero code changes, lightest self-hosted | GlitchTip (512MB RAM, MIT license) |
| Full-stack observability with session replay in open source | Highlight.io |
| Mobile error tracking with stability scores | Bugsnag |
| Automated error grouping and deploy correlation | Rollbar |
| Smallest footprint, no free tier required | Airbrake |
| Background jobs and cron monitoring | Honeybadger |
| Visual debugging through session replay | LogRocket |
The core question: are you paying to fix bugs, or paying just to know bugs exist? Per-event pricing models (Sentry, Bugsnag, Rollbar) charge you more the worse your production is behaving. GlitchTip and Temps eliminate per-event pricing entirely. If you're also paying for separate analytics, session replay, and uptime monitoring, Temps eliminates those bills too.
Related: How to set up error tracking without Sentry | Vercel cost savings with Temps
Temps leads the self-hosted options because it is the only one here that exposes a Sentry-compatible DSN and bundles analytics, session replay, uptime, and deployments — point your existing Sentry SDK at your Temps instance by changing one DSN URL, and your error data stays on your own server (free to self-host, ~$6/mo on Temps Cloud, Apache-2.0). GlitchTip is the lightest pure-error drop-in, running on 512MB of RAM under an MIT license. Highlight.io is the heavier full-stack open-source option, combining error tracking, session replay, and logs but requiring its own SDK rather than a DSN swap.
Sentry's free plan caps at 5,000 errors/month. The Developer plan costs $26/month (50,000 errors, 1 user). The Team plan is $31/seat/month — a 5-person team pays $155/month for error tracking only. Session replay is a separate add-on at $29/month. The Business plan has custom pricing with unlimited errors.
GlitchTip and Temps are both Sentry-SDK-compatible: each exposes a Sentry-compatible DSN endpoint, so you change a single configuration URL and keep using the official Sentry SDK — @sentry/react, @sentry/node, sentry-python, or any of the 100+ other Sentry SDKs. No code modifications needed. Highlight.io requires switching to its own SDK, which typically takes 30–60 minutes per service.
For self-hosted: both Temps and GlitchTip are completely free with no event limits. Temps adds analytics, session replay, and deployments; GlitchTip is lighter and simpler. For managed SaaS: Bugsnag's free tier (7,500 events/month) is the most generous, followed by Rollbar (5,000/month) and LogRocket (1,000 sessions/month).
A 5-person team on Sentry Team pays $155/month for error tracking alone. GlitchTip's hosted plan starts at $15/month — a 90% reduction. Self-hosting GlitchTip or Temps drops software cost to $0, with only VPS costs (~$6/month on Hetzner). If you're also paying for separate analytics, session replay, and uptime monitoring, consolidating with Temps saves $300–500/month compared to a typical SaaS stack.
Yes. GlitchTip runs on 512MB of RAM and handles millions of events monthly. Temps processes errors alongside deployments, analytics, and session replay on a single server. The key responsibility shift is that you handle backups, updates, and infrastructure — the same tradeoff as any self-hosted service.
Sentry's free plan limits you to 5,000 errors per month with 1 user. There's no session replay on the free plan. Paid tiers start at $26/month (Developer plan, 50,000 errors) and $31/seat/month (Team plan, 100,000 errors).
Last updated June 7, 2026. Sentry pricing and competitor rates verified from public sources. Always verify current pricing with each provider before committing.
