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Sentry vs UptimeRobot

Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.

Entry price

From $26 per month (Team plan, indicative)

Free tier

From €9 per month (Solo, billed annually; €10 monthly)

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Event-volume pricing. A noisy application can consume the quota quickly, so filtering matters.

One of the best free tiers in infrastructure tooling, and paid plans are still inexpensive: Solo €9, Team €35 and Scale €65 a month on annual billing. Solo buys the 60-second interval.

Free tier

Free developer plan with a monthly error and replay allowance.

50 monitors at 5-minute intervals, free forever, with SSL and domain-expiry checks and one status page.

Open source

BSL / FSL

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPSwiftKotlinDart
Codeless

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroidDesktop
WebAPI

Fits teams

Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-market

Adoption

Category standard

Functional Software (Sentry) · since 2012

Widely used

UptimeRobot · since 2010

Strengths

  • Release and commit attribution tells you which deploy introduced the error, and often who to ask.
  • Excellent SDK coverage across essentially every language and framework.
  • Self-hosting is genuinely supported for teams that need it.
  • Free tier covers what most small projects actually need.
  • Five-minute setup with no configuration to learn.
  • Status pages included even on lower tiers.

Limitations

  • Event-based pricing punishes noisy applications until you invest in filtering.
  • The product has broadened a lot; some newer modules are shallower than the error core.
  • Self-hosting is resource-hungry.
  • No browser-based transaction monitoring — availability only.
  • Basic alerting logic; expect some noise from transient failures.
  • Limited reporting and no observability integration.

Best for

Essentially every engineering team — error tracking is the highest-value monitoring you can add first.

Side projects, small businesses and anyone who currently has no monitoring at all.

All of these integrate with: Slack, PagerDuty.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.