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Comparison

AppSignal vs Highlight.io

No clear leader: AppSignal (56.5) and Highlight.io (52.4) 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.

AppSignal full profile →Highlight.io full profile →
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AppSignal57
Highlight.io52
Score
Vioscale score
AppSignal57 / 100medium · 73%
Highlight.io52 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Model
AppSignalfreemium
Highlight.iocommercial
Price level
AppSignallow
Highlight.iomid
Transparent
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Integrations
Count
AppSignal1
Highlight.io19
Security
Disclosure policy
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io–
Gdpr
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Hipaa
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io–
Iso27001
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io–
Scorecard
AppSignal–
Highlight.io6.5
Soc2
AppSignal–
Highlight.io✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
AppSignal–
Highlight.io5
Github stars
AppSignal–
Highlight.io9,371
Package downloads weekly
AppSignal–
Highlight.io5,623
Activity
Commits last 30d
AppSignal–
Highlight.io4
Release
Cadence days
AppSignal–
Highlight.io11
History
AppSignal–
Highlight.io20 items
License
Spdx
AppSignal–
Highlight.ioApache-2.0
Language
Primary
AppSignal–
Highlight.ioTypeScript
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

Coverage
Platforms covered
AppSignalBackend
Highlight.ioFull-stack
Language / SDK coverage
AppSignal-
Highlight.ioJavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, C# .NET, Elixir, React
Core
Automatic error grouping
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Release health / regression tracking
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io-
Enrichment
Source-map de-minification
AppSignal-
Highlight.io✓
Native crash symbolication
AppSignal-
Highlight.io-
PII data scrubbing
AppSignal-
Highlight.io✓
Bundled signals
Bundled session replay
AppSignal-
Highlight.io✓
Bundled performance / APM
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Workflow
Issue-tracker integration
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Alert rules / on-call routing
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Deployment
Hosting
AppSignalCloud only
Highlight.ioCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

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

AppSignal

A cloud-based monitoring platform that tracks application errors, monitors performance metrics, and correlates issues to specific deployments. Provides automatic error grouping, distributed tracing, log search, and custom metrics for developers.

Independently observed

Highlight.io

A comprehensive observability platform that captures session replays, error tracking, logs, and distributed traces across your web applications, with both cloud and self-hosted deployment options.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 ↗

Highlight.io

from $50/moHybridFree tier

From $0 (free) to $800+/month (business); usage-based add-ons for overage

  • FreeFree
    • 500 monthly sessions
    • AI error grouping
    • Up to 15 seats
  • Pay-as-you-goFrom $50/month
    • Up to 3 dashboards
    • Up to 2 projects
    • Up to 15 seats
    • Up to 7 day retention
  • BusinessFrom $800/month
    • Unlimited dashboards
    • Unlimited projects
    • Unlimited seats
    • Custom retention policies
    • Filters for data ingest
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • SAML & SSO
    • Custom MSAs & SLAs
    • RBAC & audit logs
    • Data export & user reporting
  • Self-Hosted EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AppSignal✓
Highlight.io✓
Self-hosted
AppSignal✗
Highlight.io✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Linear

AppSignal

1 total - 0 not shared
  • Linear
Independently observed

Highlight.io

19 total - 18 not shared
  • Amplitude
  • ClickUp
  • Discord
  • Electron
  • Front
  • GitHub
  • Grafana
  • Height
  • Intercom
  • Jira
  • LaunchDarkly
  • Mixpanel
  • Nuxt
  • Pendo
  • Segment
  • Slack
  • Vercel
  • WordPress
Independently observed

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