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Comparison

AppSignal vs Sentry

On the evidence we track, Sentry leads this comparison with a composite score of 70/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

AppSignal full profile →Sentry full profile →
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AppSignal59
★Sentry70
Score
vioscaleAI score
AppSignal59 / 100medium · 72%
Sentry70 / 100high · 75%
Pricing
Free tier
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Model
AppSignalfreemium
Sentryfreemium
Price level
AppSignallow
Sentrylow
Starting price
AppSignal–
Sentry$26
Transparent
AppSignal✓
Sentry✗
Integrations
Count
AppSignal10
Sentry50
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Gdpr
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Hipaa
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Iso27001
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Scorecard
AppSignal–
Sentry6.3
Soc2
AppSignal–
Sentry✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
AppSignal–
Sentry209
Github stars
AppSignal–
Sentry45,550
Package downloads weekly
AppSignal–
Sentry34,182,735
Stackoverflow questions
AppSignal–
Sentry6,100
Activity
Commits last 30d
AppSignal–
Sentry100
Release
Cadence days
AppSignal–
Sentry12
History
AppSignal–
Sentry20 items
License
Spdx
AppSignal–
SentryBSL-1.1
Language
Primary
AppSignal–
SentryPython
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
AppSignal6 items
Sentry8 items

Capabilities

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

Coverage
Platforms covered
AppSignalBackend
SentryFull-stack
Language / SDK coverage
AppSignalRuby, Elixir, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, PHP, Rust
SentryAndroid, Apple (iOS), Django, .NET, Go, JavaScript, Laravel, PHP, Python, Flutte
Core
Automatic error grouping
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Release health / regression tracking
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Enrichment
Source-map de-minification
AppSignal-
Sentry✓
Native crash symbolication
AppSignal-
Sentry✓
PII data scrubbing
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Bundled signals
Bundled session replay
AppSignal-
Sentry✓
Bundled performance / APM
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Workflow
Issue-tracker integration
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Alert rules / on-call routing
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Deployment
Hosting
AppSignalCloud only
SentryCloud only

What each one is

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

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

Sentry

Leader

An error tracking and application performance monitoring solution that automatically groups issues, provides root-cause analysis, and integrates AI-assisted debugging to help teams fix problems faster.

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 ↗

Sentry

Leader
SubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available. Paid plans: Team, Business, Enterprise. Seer add-on: $40/active contributor/month

  • Team-
  • Business-
  • Enterprise-
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
iOS
AppSignal✗
Sentry✓
Android
AppSignal✗
Sentry✓
macOS
AppSignal✗
Sentry✓
Windows
AppSignal✗
Sentry✓
Linux
AppSignal✗
Sentry✓
CLI
AppSignal✓
Sentry✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AppSignal✓
Sentry✓
Self-hosted
AppSignal✗
Sentry✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Linear

AppSignal

16 total - 15 not shared
  • 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

Sentry

Leader
51 total - 50 not shared
  • Jira
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Bitbucket
  • Datadog
  • Heroku
  • Segment
  • Trello
  • Rookout
  • Shortcut
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Vercel
  • Splunk
  • Expo
  • Netlify
  • Amazon SQS
  • Auth0
  • Azure DevOps
  • ClickUp
  • Cloudflare
  • Compass
  • Discord
  • +26 more
Independently observed
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