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RealUptime Errors vs Sentry

Sentry is a deep observability platform: error tracking plus distributed tracing, session replay, profiling, and logs, each metered separately with pay-as-you-go billing once a quota runs out. RealUptime Errors is deliberately narrower: issues, releases, and tags at a flat monthly price, so the bad deploy that made you need error tracking changes your week, not your bill.

The short version

Sentry does far more, at a price that moves with your traffic; RealUptime Errors does error tracking at a price that does not.

Sentry is a legitimately deep platform, and if your team needs tracing, session replay, or profiling it is the more complete tool; we do not pretend otherwise. The trade is the bill: separate meters across half a dozen product categories mean the traffic spike or bad deploy that made you need error tracking is the same event that inflates the invoice. RealUptime Errors keeps the job narrow: catch and group application errors, tie them to releases and tags, scrub sensitive values by default in the SDK and again on the server, and charge a flat monthly price you can budget on day one. And if you already run uptime checks or a status page here, your errors live in the same account instead of at a third vendor.

Start free: 10,000 events a month

Verified August 24, 2026. Sources: Sentry pricing, Sentry docs: server-side data scrubbing, Sentry: self-hosted documentation.

Flat, predictable monthly price

Have

$0, $23.99, or $58.99 a month; the plan price is the ceiling

Don’t have

usage-based per category (errors, spans, replays, logs, profiling) with pay-as-you-go billing beyond each quota, per sentry.io/pricing

Free tier

Have

10,000 events a month, 14-day retention

Partial

5,000 errors a month, limited to one user

Tracing, session replay, and profiling

Don’t have

deliberately out of scope; this product is error tracking only

Have

distributed tracing, session replay, and profiling, each with its own quota and meter

Data scrubbing on by default

Have

SDKs drop authorization headers, cookies, and card- and token-shaped strings before an event leaves your process; the server applies the same rules again

Have

server-side scrubbing of sensitive field names and card-like values is on by default, per Sentry's scrubbing docs

Self-hosted deployment option

Don’t have

hosted only today

Have

self-hosted Sentry is published and documented by Sentry itself

Paid retention

Have

90 days on Growth, 180 days on Scale

Have

90-day retention on paid plans, per the pricing page

Sentry pricing and the free tier in 2026

As published on Sentry's pricing page (verified September 2, 2026): the Developer plan is free with 5,000 errors a month, one user, and a 30-day lookback; Team starts at $26/mo billed annually with 50,000 errors and unlimited users; Business starts at $80/mo billed annually; Enterprise is custom. On top of each plan, errors, spans, replays, logs, and profiling are metered separately, with pay-as-you-go billing once a quota runs out, which is where the real bill is decided. We read the free tier's numbers line by line, including what happens on the day you exceed them, in Sentry's free tier: what 5,000 errors a month gets you.

RealUptime Errors is $0 for 10,000 events a month, $23.99/mo on Growth, or $58.99/mo on Scale, and the plan price is the ceiling: there is no per-event meter and no pay-as-you-go line. The trade is stated in the matrix above. Sentry's paid plans buy a far deeper platform; ours buys a bill that does not move on the day a bad deploy multiplies your error volume.

Looking for a Sentry alternative?

For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.

Start free: 10,000 events a month