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Sentry

Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

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The Lens

By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Oct 2026

Sentry catches errors in production and tells you exactly where they happened: stack trace, request, user, and the release that broke it. It also does tracing, session replay, profiling, logs, uptime and cron monitoring, with SDKs for most languages and frameworks. The code is source-available under the Functional Source License, and each release becomes Apache 2.0 two years later.

Self-hosting runs on Docker Compose with a heavy stack (Kafka, ClickHouse, Redis, Postgres, Snuba, Relay and more) and wants 4 cores and 16 GB of RAM plus 16 GB of swap, ideally 32 GB. An errors-only profile cuts that to about 7 GB. Sentry itself pitches self-hosted for low-volume and proof-of-concept use, and it leaves out the Seer AI debugger, spike protection and some mobile symbolication.

The cloud free plan is one user with 5,000 errors, 5 million spans and 50 replays a month. Team is $29 a month ($26 billed annually) for unlimited users and 50,000 errors; Business is $89 ($80 annually) with the same base quotas plus SAML and SCIM, unlimited dashboards and advanced quota management. Seer is $40 per active contributor on top. Solo: free cloud. Small teams: Team is cheap insurance. Large orgs: Business for SAML and SCIM.

The catch: the license. You can self-host for internal use, but you can't offer Sentry, or anything substantially similar built on it, as a commercial product, so it isn't open source until each version's two-year clock runs out. GlitchTip (glitchtip/glitchtip-backend) is the lighter, open option.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

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Free (cloud Developer): 1 user, 5,000 errors, 5M spans, 50 replays, 5 GB logs, 5 GB metrics, 1 uptime and 1 cron monitor, 30-day lookback.

Self-hosted: FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0: internal use allowed, competing commercial use prohibited, each release converts to Apache 2.0 after two years. Docker Compose; 4 cores, 16 GB RAM plus 16 GB swap minimum (32 GB recommended), or about 7 GB for the errors-only profile. No Seer AI, spike protection or spend allocation.

Paid (cloud, USD): Team $29/mo monthly or $26/mo annual: unlimited users, integrations, 50,000 errors, 5M spans, 50 replays, 90-day lookback, metered overage. Business $89/mo monthly or $80/mo annual: Team quotas plus SAML and SCIM, unlimited dashboards, advanced quota management, anomaly detection. Enterprise custom with a technical account manager. Seer AI debugger add-on $40 per active contributor per month.

Free cloud tier for one person. Teams pay $26 to $29 a month; SAML and SCIM need Business at $80 to $89.

What to do by team size

Solo
free cloud Developer plan
Small team
Team at $26-29/month; cheaper than self-hosting the stack
Medium team
Business at $80-89/month for SAML and SCIM
Large team
Enterprise, or self-host for internal use if you can run Kafka and ClickHouse
Self-hosting ops:heavy
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