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Temps vs Sentry
Same SDK. One less subscription.
Monthly cost at a glance
The short answer
Is Temps better than Sentry? It depends on what you need. Here is what each one is, and what Sentry has that Temps doesn't.
- Sentry
- Sentry is a dedicated error tracker at $26/month for Team and $80/month for Business, both with unlimited users rather than per-seat pricing.
- Temps
- Temps accepts the official Sentry SDKs through a Sentry-compatible DSN, keeps stack traces and request payloads on your own infrastructure, and carries analytics, session replay and uptime monitoring alongside error tracking at no additional cost.
- What Sentry has that Temps doesn't
- Deeper error tracking: profiling, release health and more advanced grouping. The split is scope — one deep product on a subscription, or four signals bundled into the platform you deploy on.
Scored, dimension by dimension
SDK compatibility
TieTemps
Official Sentry SDKs, Temps DSN
Sentry
Official Sentry SDKs
Error tracking depth
SentryTemps
Groups, stack traces, source context, alerts
Sentry
Profiling, release health, advanced grouping
Cost
TempsTemps
$0 — included in the platform
Sentry
$26/mo Team, $80/mo Business (annual)
Where your stack traces live
TempsTemps
Your own server
Sentry
Sentry's cloud (or self-host their stack)
Analytics, replay and uptime
TempsTemps
Included in the same binary
Sentry
Separate products or vendors
| Dimension | Temps | Sentry | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDK compatibility | Official Sentry SDKs, Temps DSN | Official Sentry SDKs | Tie |
| Error tracking depth | Groups, stack traces, source context, alerts | Profiling, release health, advanced grouping | Sentry |
| Cost | $0 — included in the platform | $26/mo Team, $80/mo Business (annual) | Temps |
| Where your stack traces live | Your own server | Sentry's cloud (or self-host their stack) | Temps |
| Analytics, replay and uptime | Included in the same binary | Separate products or vendors | Temps |
Why teams switch from Sentry
Sentry is the better error tracker, and it is not close on depth. Temps' argument is different: its DSN is Sentry-compatible, so you keep the official SDK and your existing instrumentation, and error tracking arrives with the platform you already deploy to instead of as another bill.
- Sentry-compatible DSN — keep your SDK
- Temps accepts events from the official Sentry SDKs. Migration is a DSN change, not a rewrite: the same @sentry/node, @sentry/nextjs or @sentry/python code keeps working, and you can point it back at Sentry whenever you want.
- Your errors stay on your server
- Self-hosted Temps means stack traces, request payloads and user context never leave your infrastructure. This is the reason most teams give for self-hosting error tracking, and it is a data-residency decision rather than a cost one.
- Included, not added
- Error tracking comes with deployments, analytics, session replay and uptime monitoring in one binary. Sentry is one subscription in a stack that usually also has an analytics tool and an uptime tool beside it.
- Errors joined to deploys
- Because Temps deploys the app and receives its errors, an error group sits next to the deployment that introduced it without configuring a release integration.
Feature comparison
What each platform includes out of the box, and what needs a separate subscription.
Error tracking
Temps
YesSentry-compatible ingestSentry
YesBest-in-classOfficial Sentry SDKs work unchanged
Temps
YesSame DSN formatSentry
YesError grouping and fingerprinting
Temps
YesBasic groupingSentry
YesFar more sophisticatedBreadth of language/framework SDKs
Temps
NoSentry's SDKs, so broad in practiceSentry
YesOfficial SDKs for most popular languages and frameworksPerformance monitoring / tracing
Temps
YesOpenTelemetry ingestSentry
YesDeeper, with profilingProfiling
Temps
NoSentry
YesContinuous profilingSession replay
Temps
Yesrrweb-based, unlimited self-hostedSentry
Yes50 replays on all listed plansWeb analytics
Temps
YesPrivacy-first, built inSentry
NoNot an analytics productUptime monitoring
Temps
Yes60s checks, built inSentry
YesDeployments
Temps
YesGit-push PaaSSentry
NoNot a deployment platformManaged PostgreSQL
Temps
YesHA clustersSentry
NoSelf-hostable
Temps
YesMIT / Apache 2.0, first-classSentry
YesSelf-hosted option availableData stays on your infrastructure
Temps
YesWhen self-hostedSentry
NoOn sentry.io unless self-hostedUnlimited users
Temps
YesSentry
YesTeam and Business are unlimited too
What it actually costs
Sentry does not charge per seat: Team is $26/mo and Business $80/mo billed annually, both with unlimited users. That is genuinely good value for a dedicated error tracker, and any comparison claiming Sentry is expensive because of seats is wrong. The saving from Temps is not the $26 on its own — it is that error tracking, analytics, session replay and uptime monitoring stop being four subscriptions.
| Scenario | Temps | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 self-hosted, unlimited | $0 Developer — 1 user, 5k errors |
| Team / standard | $0 (included) | $26/mo billed annually, unlimited users, 50k errors |
| Business | $0 (included) | $80/mo billed annually |
| Infrastructure | Free on your own VPS | $0 — hosted for you |
Sentry prices as of October 2026, from its published pricing page. Temps prices from /pricing.
Which one should you choose?
Choose Temps if you…
- You want error tracking included with the platform you deploy to, not as a separate bill
- Stack traces and request payloads must stay on your own infrastructure
- You already use the Sentry SDKs and want to keep them
- You are also paying for analytics, session replay and uptime monitoring separately
- You want more than 50 session replays without moving up a plan
What Sentry does better than Temps
- Error tracking is your primary need and you want the deepest product available
- You rely on Sentry's profiling, release health or advanced grouping
- You need one of Sentry's more unusual language or framework SDKs, fully supported
- You want a hosted service with no server to operate — $26/mo is a small price for that
- Your team is large and Sentry's flat unlimited-user pricing already suits you
Migrating from Sentry
Easy difficulty
Change the DSN. Temps accepts events from the official Sentry SDKs, so the instrumentation you already have keeps working and no application code changes. Historical events do not migrate — Sentry's export is not importable here — so run both in parallel until you have the history you need. Expect grouping to differ: Temps' fingerprinting is simpler, so issues that Sentry merges may appear separately.
Frequently asked questions
Is Temps a replacement for Sentry?
For teams that want error tracking bundled with their deployment platform and their data kept in-house, yes. For teams that need Sentry's depth — profiling, advanced grouping, release health, the full SDK matrix — no. Sentry is a specialist product and Temps' error tracking is one feature of a platform.
Do I have to change my code to send errors to Temps?
No. Temps exposes a Sentry-compatible DSN, so the official Sentry SDKs work unchanged. You point the DSN at your Temps instance.
How much does Sentry cost?
The Developer plan is free for one user with 5k errors. Team is $26/month billed annually and Business is $80/month billed annually, both with unlimited users. Sentry does not charge per seat.
Can I self-host Sentry instead?
Yes. Sentry publishes a self-hosted distribution, though it is a substantially heavier deployment than a single binary. There is also a licensing difference worth knowing: self-hosted Sentry is under the Functional Source License, which forbids using the code to compete with Sentry or to sell it as a hosted offering, and converts to Apache 2.0 after two years. Temps is MIT / Apache 2.0 from the start. For most internal use the FSL restrictions never bite, but they are not the same licence.
Further reading
Migrate from Sentry to Temps Error Tracking
Swap the DSN, run both side by side, move source maps and alert rules, then cut over.
Self-Hosted Error Tracking in Temps
Sentry-compatible error tracking built into Temps: what it covers, what it costs and where Sentry goes deeper.
Error Tracking With a Sentry-Compatible DSN
Point the official Sentry SDK at a Temps DSN: setup per framework, source maps and alerts.
8 Best Sentry Alternatives for Error Tracking
Hosted and self-hosted error trackers compared on pricing, SDK support and data residency.
How to Set Up Error Tracking Without Sentry
Keep the Sentry SDKs and send events to a self-hosted, Sentry-compatible endpoint.
Error Tracking Without Per-Seat Pricing
Which error trackers charge per seat, per event or not at all.
Replace Sentry and Plausible with one self-hosted tool
Error tracking and web analytics from one install instead of two services.
How we researched this comparison
Sentry plan prices and included quotas read from Sentry's public pricing page on 2026-10-08 (Team is $26/month billed annually, $29 billed monthly). The self-hosted licence terms are from the LICENSE file in getsentry/self-hosted. Temps capabilities from the Temps source. No benchmarks were run.
Disclosure: Temps publishes this page and is one of the products being compared. Reviewed by David Viejo, founder of Temps.
Ready to switch from Sentry?
Self-host Temps for free, or run it with a Premium licence. Temps Cloud, a hosted control plane for your own servers, is $29/month in an invite-only beta, with your servers billed separately.