vioscaleAI
Comparison

Airbrake vs AppSignal

No clear leader: AppSignal (59.3) and Airbrake (56.2) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Airbrake full profile →AppSignal full profile →
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Airbrake56
AppSignal59
Score
vioscaleAI score
Airbrake56 / 100medium · 71%
AppSignal59 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Model
Airbrakefreemium
AppSignalfreemium
Price level
Airbrakemid
AppSignallow
Transparent
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Integrations
Count
Airbrake12
AppSignal10
Security
Disclosure policy
Airbrake–
AppSignal✓
Gdpr
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Hipaa
Airbrake–
AppSignal✓
Iso27001
Airbrake–
AppSignal✓
Soc2
Airbrake✓
AppSignal–
Reliability
Status page
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Airbrake7 items
AppSignal6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for error tracking software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Coverage
Platforms covered
AirbrakeFull-stack
AppSignalBackend
Language / SDK coverage
AirbrakeOver 50 languages including JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, .NET, PHP, Node.
AppSignalRuby, Elixir, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, PHP, Rust
Core
Automatic error grouping
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Release health / regression tracking
Airbrake-
AppSignal✓
Enrichment
Source-map de-minification
Airbrake-
AppSignal-
Native crash symbolication
Airbrake-
AppSignal-
PII data scrubbing
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Bundled signals
Bundled session replay
Airbrake-
AppSignal-
Bundled performance / APM
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Workflow
Issue-tracker integration
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Alert rules / on-call routing
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓
Deployment
Hosting
AirbrakeCloud only
AppSignalCloud only

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Airbrake

Error notification and monitoring platform that provides visibility into application health and performance across multiple programming languages and platforms.

Independently observed

AppSignal

AppSignal helps developers monitor and debug web applications by automatically tracking errors, performance metrics, logs, and deployment information in a single unified interface.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Airbrake

from $19/moUsage-basedFree tier

From $19/month. Usage-based with 10% annual discount. On-demand charges for excess units.

  • Dev + errors$19/month or $17/month billed annually
    • 1 user
    • 1 team
    • Unlimited projects
    • Account Dashboard
    • Advanced Search Filters
    • +2 more
  • Basic + errors$38/month or $34/month billed annually
    • Unlimited users
    • 3 teams
    • Unlimited projects
    • Account Dashboard
    • Advanced Search Filters
    • +2 more
  • Pro + errors$76/month or $68/month billed annually
    • Unlimited users
    • Unlimited teams
    • Unlimited projects
    • Audit Logs
    • Spike forgiveness
as of verify ↗

AppSignal

from $279/moSubscriptionFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 50K requests. Paid plans from $279/year. Add-ons from $89/month.

  • FreeFree
    • 50K requests/month
    • 1GB logging
    • 5-day retention
  • Paid$279/year ($23.25/month billed yearly)
    • 250K requests/month
    • 1GB logging free
    • Error tracking with backtrace
    • Performance monitoring
    • Host monitoring
    • +10 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Airbrake✗
AppSignal✓
iOS
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✗
CLI
Airbrake✗
AppSignal✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Airbrake✓
AppSignal✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Airbrake

12 total
  • Bitbucket
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Jira
  • LogRocket
  • Okta
  • OneLogin
  • PivotalTracker
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Webhooks
  • Zapier
Independently observed

AppSignal

16 total
  • Linear
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Faraday
  • ROM
  • Excon
  • Claude
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon ECS
  • Amazon EC2
  • AWS Fargate
  • Amazon RDS
  • Elixir
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Node.js
  • Grape
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Airbrake or AppSignal: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.