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Temps vs Sentry

Researched and updated 2026-08-07

Same SDK. One less subscription.

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.

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Monthly cost at a glance

Temps
Sentry
Free tier
$0 self-hosted, unlimited
$0 Developer
Team / standard
$0
$26/mo billed annually, unlimited users, 50k errors
Business
$0
$80/mo billed annually
Infrastructure
~$6/mo on your own VPS
$0
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The short answer

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

Choose Sentry if you…

  • 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

Why teams switch from Sentry

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

    Yes
    Sentry-compatible ingest

    Sentry

    Yes
    Best-in-class

  • Official Sentry SDKs work unchanged

    Temps

    Yes
    Same DSN format

    Sentry

    Yes

  • Error grouping and fingerprinting

    Temps

    Yes
    Basic grouping

    Sentry

    Yes
    Far more sophisticated

  • Breadth of language/framework SDKs

    Temps

    No
    Sentry's SDKs, so broad in practice

    Sentry

    Yes
    100+ officially maintained

  • Performance monitoring / tracing

    Temps

    Yes
    OpenTelemetry ingest

    Sentry

    Yes
    Deeper, with profiling

  • Profiling

    Temps

    No

    Sentry

    Yes
    Continuous profiling

  • Session replay

    Temps

    Yes
    rrweb-based, unlimited self-hosted

    Sentry

    Yes
    50 replays on all listed plans

  • Web analytics

    Temps

    Yes
    Privacy-first, built in

    Sentry

    No
    Not an analytics product

  • Uptime monitoring

    Temps

    Yes
    60s checks, built in

    Sentry

    Yes

  • Deployments

    Temps

    Yes
    Git-push PaaS

    Sentry

    No
    Not a deployment platform

  • Managed PostgreSQL

    Temps

    Yes
    HA clusters

    Sentry

    No

  • Self-hostable

    Temps

    Yes
    Apache 2.0, first-class

    Sentry

    Yes
    Self-hosted option available

  • Data stays on your infrastructure

    Temps

    Yes
    When self-hosted

    Sentry

    No
    On sentry.io unless self-hosted

  • Unlimited users

    Temps

    Yes

    Sentry

    Yes
    Team 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.

ScenarioTempsSentry
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~$6/mo on your own VPS$0 — hosted for 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 Apache 2.0 from the start. For most internal use the FSL restrictions never bite, but they are not the same licence.

How we researched this comparison

Sentry plan prices and included quotas read from Sentry's public pricing page. Temps capabilities from this repository. No benchmarks were run.

Disclosure: Temps publishes this page and is one of the products being compared.

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