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Pricing from
$26 per month
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User industry
  1. Media and communications
  2. Information technology and software
  3. Accommodation and food services

What is Sentry

Sentry is an application monitoring platform focused on error tracking, crash reporting, and performance monitoring for web, mobile, and backend applications. It is used by engineering and DevOps teams to detect, triage, and resolve production issues using stack traces, releases, alerts, and performance traces. The product combines error monitoring with APM-style insights (transactions, spans, and profiling) and supports both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployments. It also offers capabilities such as session replay and user-impact context to help reproduce issues.

pros

Strong error and crash triage

Sentry provides detailed exception grouping, stack traces, breadcrumbs, and release context to speed up root-cause analysis. It supports source maps and symbolication for JavaScript and native mobile crashes, which improves readability of production errors. Workflow features such as issue assignment, ownership rules, and integrations help teams operationalize triage. These capabilities align well with teams that need engineering-focused debugging rather than primarily product-analytics workflows.

Broad SDK and platform coverage

Sentry supports many languages and frameworks across frontend, backend, and mobile, including native crash reporting for iOS and Android. This breadth makes it practical for organizations with heterogeneous stacks and multiple client types. It also fits use cases in games and connected-device applications where crashes and performance regressions must be tracked across versions. Coverage reduces the need to stitch together separate tools for different runtimes.

Unified monitoring with context

Sentry combines errors, performance transactions/spans, and (optionally) session replay in a single product, enabling correlation between user experience and technical failures. Alerting and dashboards support operational monitoring and incident response without requiring a separate alerting layer for basic use cases. The product emphasizes developer-centric context (code-level traces, releases, commits) alongside user-impact signals. This can reduce time spent switching between tools when diagnosing production issues.

cons

Not a full product analytics suite

While Sentry includes session replay and some user-impact context, it is not primarily designed for experimentation, feature flagging, or deep behavioral analytics. Teams focused on conversion optimization and funnel analysis may need additional specialized tools. Event schemas and reporting are oriented toward engineering observability rather than marketing or growth analytics. This can create gaps for stakeholders who expect end-to-end CRO workflows.

Cost and data volume management

Pricing and quotas are typically tied to event volume (errors, transactions, replays), which can become significant for high-traffic applications. Teams often need to tune sampling, filtering, and retention to control ingestion and storage. These controls add operational overhead and can reduce visibility if configured too aggressively. Budgeting can be less predictable when traffic patterns change.

Self-hosting adds operational burden

Sentry offers self-hosted deployment, but running it at scale requires maintaining multiple components (storage, queues, workers) and handling upgrades. Organizations without strong platform engineering support may find the operational requirements non-trivial. Some advanced capabilities and managed reliability are easier to obtain in the hosted offering. This trade-off can influence adoption in smaller teams.

Plan & Pricing

Plan Price Key features & notes
Developer $0 (Free) Limited to 1 user; Error Monitoring & Tracing; Alerts via email; 10 custom dashboards; Included quotas shown on Sentry: 5k errors, 5GB logs, 5M spans, 50 session replays; 1 uptime monitor; 1 cron monitor; 1GB attachments; 100 builds.
Team $26/mo (when billed annually with default pre-paid data) Unlimited users; Third-party integrations; 20 custom dashboards; Included quotas: 50k errors, 5GB logs (+$0.50/GB additional), 5M spans, 50 session replays; 1 uptime monitor (+$1.00 additional); 1 cron monitor (+$0.78 additional). Seer (AI) available by subscription; additional events and pay-as-you-go purchasing available.
Business $80/mo (when billed annually with default pre-paid data) Team features + Insights (90-day lookback); Unlimited custom dashboards; Unlimited metric alerts with anomaly detection; Advanced quota management; SAML + SCIM support; Included quotas: 50k errors, 5GB logs (+$0.50/GB additional), 5M spans, 50 session replays.
Enterprise Custom pricing Business features + Technical account manager, dedicated support, custom quotas and SLAs — contact sales for pricing.

Additional pay-as-you-go / add-on pricing (from Sentry pricing page):

  • Logs: $0.50/GB additional
  • Cron Monitoring: $0.78/monitor
  • Uptime Monitoring: $1.00/uptime alert
  • Continuous Profiling: $0.0315/hr
  • UI Profiling: $0.25/hr
  • Seer (AI Debugging Agent): $40/active contributor/month (active contributor = opens ≥2 PRs/month on connected repos)

Notes: Pricing page indicates "Start with Sentry's 14-day free Business plan trial" on the signup page; pay-as-you-go and add-on SKU prices are listed on the official pricing page. All information sourced from Sentry's official pricing and signup pages.

Seller details

Sentry, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
2012
Private
https://sentry.io/
https://x.com/sentry
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentry/

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