Sentry Alternatives: Five Options for Error Tracking Compared
Prices and facts checked on vendor pages on Nov 8, 2026.
Sentry is an application monitoring platform built around errors, and most teams leave it for one of two reasons: error volume that makes the bill hard to predict, or a wish to see errors next to logs, users, or incidents instead of in a separate tool. This page compares five options with different strengths. Sazabi is one of them and wrote this page, so read its section knowing that. Sazabi is a log-centered product, not a one-to-one error tracker, and we say where Sentry is the better pick.
What Sentry Charges, For Reference
Sentry has four plans. Developer is free, for one user, with 5K errors and 5 GB of logs. Team is $26 per month when billed annually with default prepaid data, with unlimited users, 50K errors, and 5 GB of logs. Business is $80 per month on the same basis. Enterprise is custom. Errors above the included volume are billed per error. On Team, the page lists $0.0003625 per error from 50K to 100K, falling to $0.00015 per error above 20M. Extra logs are $0.50 per GB. Retention is a 30-day lookback on Developer and up to 90 days on Team. Seer, Sentry's AI debugging add-on, is $40 per active contributor per month. See Sentry Pricing Explained and Sazabi vs Sentry.
Five Sentry Alternatives At A Glance
How To Choose
- Do you need errors, logs, or both? An error tracker groups exceptions. A log-centered tool looks at everything your services write.
- Which SDKs do you run? Sentry SDK compatibility lowers the cost of switching.
- Who triages? Product teams may want replay context. On-call teams may want incident tooling in the same product.
- How spiky is your error volume? Per-error pricing rises with a bad deploy. Look for rate limits and billing caps.
PostHog
PostHog bills error tracking by the number of exception events ingested each month. The pricing page lists 100K exceptions free, with unlimited team members, one project, and one-year retention on Free. Pay-as-you-go adds unlimited usage, six projects, and two-year retention. Each issue comes with the affected user's session replay, events, and properties. Billing limits, suppression rules, and server-side rate limits cap what gets ingested and billed. The docs also describe an MCP server and a CLI for uploading source maps. See the PostHog integration and Sazabi vs PostHog.
Pick it when you want errors next to session replay and product analytics, with billing limits. Skip it when you want a dedicated error tracker with no analytics around it, since PostHog's pricing is organized around many products.
Better Stack
Better Stack's error tracking page lists 100,000 exceptions included, 90-day retention, and Sentry SDK compatibility. It adds snoozing, release tracking, configurable error merging, an MCP server, and Slack, Linear, Jira, and Microsoft Teams integrations. Additional exceptions are priced per exception, and the price depends on the region selected. Incident management is part of the same platform. Learn more on the Better Stack integration page and Sazabi vs Better Stack.
Pick it when you want to keep your Sentry SDK and get on-call and status pages in the same place. Skip it when you need a feature that is only in Sentry's own product, and check the integrations list first.
Datadog
Datadog lists Error Tracking as its own line item. On annual billing, the first 50K errors are $25 per month. Beyond that, it charges $0.25 per 1,000 errors from 50K to 100K, $0.21 from 100K to 500K, $0.17 from 500K to 10M, $0.12 from 10M to 20M, and $0.10 above 20M. Month-to-month and on-demand columns are higher. These are US-site prices. See the Datadog integration and Sazabi vs Datadog.
Pick it when your logs, traces, and infrastructure are already in Datadog. Skip it when error tracking is the only thing you need, since the price table is part of a much larger product list.
LaunchDarkly
The highlight.io site now serves LaunchDarkly, and LaunchDarkly's observability product covers session replay, errors, logs, and traces. The Developer plan is $0 per month with unlimited seats and 5K errors captured free each month. On the pay-as-you-go Foundation plan, extra errors are $0.25 per 1,000 billed yearly or $0.30 per 1,000 billed monthly. Errors reach LaunchDarkly through its observability SDK or OpenTelemetry. The errors view shows counts, affected users, first and last seen times, and stack traces built from source maps. See Sazabi vs Highlight.
Pick it when you already use LaunchDarkly feature flags. Skip it when you need to run Sentry SDKs unchanged, because LaunchDarkly's docs describe plugins for its own JavaScript SDK.
Sazabi
Sazabi approaches errors differently from Sentry. Sentry starts with an exception and groups it. Sazabi starts with all your logs and structured events and investigates them, opening an issue when something is wrong and attaching what happened and why. Errors can enter that same store through a Sentry SDK. Point the SDK at a Sazabi DSN and it forwards errors, exceptions, stack traces, and structured logs. Sazabi is AI-native observability and security. It hands root cause to your coding agent through MCP, CLI, or API.
Plans are $50, $200, and $1,000 per 30-day cycle, with 200 GB of logs ingested, 50 GB scanned, and 20 issues included, then $0.10 per GB and $4 per extra issue. Nothing is billed per error. Retention is 7, 30, or 90 days.
Pick it when your problems show up in logs as much as in exceptions and you want them found without writing alert rules. Skip it when you need release health or source map uploads, which Sazabi's public pages do not describe, or session replay. Sazabi's Browser and React Native SDKs capture errors, console output, network calls with trace context, user interactions, navigation and session identity from web and mobile apps. They do not capture Core Web Vitals or session replay. See Sazabi pricing.
Try Sazabi Without Dropping Sentry
For JavaScript and Node.js, the Sentry SDK's multiplexed transport sends every event to your Sentry DSN and a Sazabi DSN, so Sentry dashboards and alerts stay as they are. Set enableLogs to also send structured logs. In Python, the SDK has no multiplexed transport, so Sazabi documents a before_send hook that copies error events only, and logs stay with Sentry. Go, Ruby, Java, and .NET SDKs also work with the Sazabi DSN.
You can also connect the other way. Sazabi has a Sentry MCP connector that lets its agent browse Sentry issues, stack traces, and breadcrumbs during an investigation, so you can try Sazabi over your existing Sentry data first. See the Sentry integration.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best Sentry alternative?
It depends on what you need. PostHog attaches session replay to errors, Better Stack accepts Sentry SDK traffic and adds on-call, Datadog suits teams already on its platform, and Sazabi suits teams whose signal lives in logs. Check each tool on your own error volume.
Can I keep using the Sentry SDK if I switch?
Often yes. Better Stack lists Sentry SDK compatibility, and Sazabi documents pointing a Sentry SDK at a Sazabi DSN for errors and structured logs. Check each vendor for the SDKs it supports.
Is Sazabi an error tracker?
Not in the full sense. Sazabi can receive Sentry SDK errors and stack traces next to your logs and investigate them, but its public pages do not describe release health or source map upload. Sazabi's Browser and React Native SDKs capture errors, console output, network calls with trace context, user interactions, navigation and session identity from web and mobile apps. They do not capture Core Web Vitals or session replay. Keep Sentry if you rely on those.
Can I run Sazabi and Sentry together?
Yes. The Sentry SDK has a multiplexed transport that sends to Sazabi and Sentry at once in JavaScript. In Python, a hook forwards a copy of error events only. Sazabi can also read Sentry issues through an MCP connector.
Sources
- Sentry plans, included errors and logs, retention, per-error rates, Seer add-on price (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- PostHog free allowances, plans, retention, team members, billing limits (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- PostHog error tracking features, replay context, MCP and CLI (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- How PostHog bills error tracking and what reduces the bill (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- Better Stack error tracking allowance, retention, Sentry SDK compatibility, integrations (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- Datadog Error Tracking list prices by volume, annual, monthly and on-demand columns (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- LaunchDarkly observability free allowances and per-error rates (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- LaunchDarkly error monitoring views and stack trace handling (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- highlight.io now serves LaunchDarkly branding (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- Sazabi plans, allowances, per-unit rates, retention (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- Sentry SDK DSN setup, multiplexed transport, Python limitation (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- Sentry MCP connector capabilities (accessed Nov 8, 2026)