# Temps vs Sentry

> Sentry is a dedicated error tracking platform. Temps includes Sentry-compatible error tracking alongside deployments, analytics, session replay and uptime monitoring — so you keep the Sentry SDK and drop the separate subscription.

Last updated 2026-10-09 · Competitor prices checked October 2026

Canonical: https://temps.sh/compare/vs-sentry

Same SDK. One less subscription.

## Short answer

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 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.

## TL;DR

| Dimension | Temps | Sentry | Better fit |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |

## Key differences

- **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.

## Features

| Feature | Temps | Sentry |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Error tracking | Yes (Sentry-compatible ingest) | Yes (Best-in-class) |
| Official Sentry SDKs work unchanged | Yes (Same DSN format) | Yes |
| Error grouping and fingerprinting | Yes (Basic grouping) | Yes (Far more sophisticated) |
| Breadth of language/framework SDKs | No (Sentry's SDKs, so broad in practice) | Yes (Official SDKs for most popular languages and frameworks) |
| Performance monitoring / tracing | Yes (OpenTelemetry ingest) | Yes (Deeper, with profiling) |
| Profiling | No | Yes (Continuous profiling) |
| Session replay | Yes (rrweb-based, unlimited self-hosted) | Yes (50 replays on all listed plans) |
| Web analytics | Yes (Privacy-first, built in) | No (Not an analytics product) |
| Uptime monitoring | Yes (60s checks, built in) | Yes |
| Deployments | Yes (Git-push PaaS) | No (Not a deployment platform) |
| Managed PostgreSQL | Yes (HA clusters) | No |
| Self-hostable | Yes (MIT / Apache 2.0, first-class) | Yes (Self-hosted option available) |
| Data stays on your infrastructure | Yes (When self-hosted) | No (On sentry.io unless self-hosted) |
| Unlimited users | Yes | Yes (Team and Business are unlimited too) |

## Pricing

| Item | 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 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.

## Choose Temps if

- 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

- 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)

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.

[Step-by-step: migrate from Sentry to Temps](https://temps.sh/docs/from-sentry)

## FAQ

### 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.

## Sources

- [Sentry pricing](https://sentry.io/pricing/)
- [Sentry self-hosted licence (FSL)](https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted/blob/master/LICENSE.md)

## Further reading

- [Migrate from Sentry to Temps Error Tracking](https://temps.sh/docs/from-sentry): Swap the DSN, run both side by side, move source maps and alert rules, then cut over.
- [Self-Hosted Error Tracking in Temps](https://temps.sh/error-tracking): 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](https://temps.sh/docs/error-tracking): Point the official Sentry SDK at a Temps DSN: setup per framework, source maps and alerts.
- [8 Best Sentry Alternatives for Error Tracking](https://temps.sh/blog/8-best-sentry-alternatives-error-tracking-2026): Hosted and self-hosted error trackers compared on pricing, SDK support and data residency.
- [How to Set Up Error Tracking Without Sentry](https://temps.sh/blog/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](https://temps.sh/blog/best-error-tracking-without-per-seat-pricing-2026): Which error trackers charge per seat, per event or not at all.
- [Replace Sentry and Plausible with one self-hosted tool](https://temps.sh/blog/self-hosted-sentry-and-plausible-alternatives-2026): Error tracking and web analytics from one install instead of two services.

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