# Bugsnag vs Elmah.io

| Attribute | Bugsnag | Elmah.io |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 51.9 (73% (medium)) | 47.9 (74% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Mobile and web app monitoring that helps development teams find bugs instantly, fix them quickly, and deploy stable releases. Monitors crashes, performance bottlenecks, and traces requests across the full stack. It is indexed under Error Tracking Software.","source":"https://www.bugsnag.com","question":"What is Bugsnag?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Bugsnag offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $20 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.bugsnag.com","question":"Is Bugsnag free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Bugsnag. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.bugsnag.com","question":"What platforms does Bugsnag support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Bugsnag can be deployed cloud / SaaS and on-premise, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.bugsnag.com","question":"Can Bugsnag be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Bugsnag is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.bugsnag.com","question":"Where is Bugsnag available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"A cloud-based error logging and management platform that automatically captures application errors and integrates with development tools, issue trackers, and notification services for error tracking and alerting. It is indexed under Error Tracking Software.","source":"https://elmah.io/","question":"What is Elmah.io?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elmah.io is a paid product; published pricing starts at $26 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Small Business, Business, Business+ and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://elmah.io/pricing/","question":"How much does Elmah.io cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Elmah.io. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://elmah.io/","question":"What platforms does Elmah.io support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Elmah.io, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://elmah.io/","question":"Can Elmah.io be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 26 integrations for Elmah.io, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, YouTrack, Stack Overflow, Zapier, Cursor and Claude, plus 18 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://elmah.io/","question":"What does Elmah.io integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Elmah.io. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elmah.io not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://elmah.io/security/","question":"What security certifications does Elmah.io have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elmah.io is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Denmark.","source":"https://elmah.io/pricing/","question":"Where is Elmah.io available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | An error and performance monitoring platform that automatically detects crashes, exceptions, and performance bottlenecks across mobile, web, desktop, and server applications. It provides diagnostics, release health tracking, and automated alerting to help teams identify and resolve issues rapidly. | A cloud-based error logging and management platform that automatically captures application errors and integrates with development tools, issue trackers, and notification services for error tracking and alerting. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"languages":"50+ platforms","platforms":"full_stack","source_maps":true,"data_scrubbing":true,"error_grouping":true,"release_health":true,"native_symbolication":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` | `{"hosting":"cloud","alerting":true,"languages":".NET","platforms":"backend","error_grouping":true,"release_health":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 30 | 20 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"SmartBear MCP"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Gitter","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Jira","native":true,"category":"issue_tracking","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Pivotal","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Splunk","native":true,"category":"analytics","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Amazon SQS","native":true,"category":"data_pipeline","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"category":"observability","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"SmartBear","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"YouTrack"},{"name":"Stack Overflow"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"Mailman"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"issue tracking","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GitLab","native":true,"category":"issue tracking","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure DevOps","native":true,"category":"ci/cd","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Octopus Deploy","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Visual Studio","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Twilio","native":true,"category":"sms","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Trello","native":true,"category":"task management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Atlassian Bamboo","native":true,"category":"ci/cd","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"ClickUp","native":true,"category":"task management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ChatGPT","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Pipedream","native":true,"category":"automation","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"NLog","native":true,"category":"logging","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Serilog","native":true,"category":"logging","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Logary","native":true,"category":"logging","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Umbraco","native":true,"category":"cms","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"DK","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever","features":["Error Monitoring","Performance Monitoring"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"data_retention":"7 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Error and performance monitoring","30+ third-party integrations","Automatic error prioritization","Automatic error assignment","Automatic user provisioning via SSO","On premises or SaaS deployment","Sensitive data management"],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Custom enterprise plans.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bugsnag.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-06T21:48:28.254Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Small Business","summary":"$26/month","features":["SSL encryption","Visual Studio Integration","Daily Backup","Support","Invoices","Business Rules"],"minSeats":3,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":26,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"3","emails":"400/month","messages":"10,000/month","applications":"unlimited","retention_days":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"$44/month","features":["SSL encryption","Visual Studio Integration","Daily Backup","Support","Invoices","Business Rules","Goodie Bag","5 Uptime Checks","App Store","Deployment Tracking","AI"],"minSeats":20,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":44,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"20","emails":"2,000/month","messages":"50,000/month","applications":"unlimited","uptime_checks":"5","retention_days":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business+","summary":"$89/month","features":["SSL encryption","Visual Studio Integration","Daily Backup","Support","Invoices","Business Rules","Goodie Bag","15 Uptime Checks","App Store","Deployment Tracking","AI","5 Heartbeats"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":89,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"unlimited","emails":"10,000/month","messages":"250,000/month","heartbeats":"5","applications":"unlimited","uptime_checks":"15","retention_days":"90"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$269/month","features":["SSL encryption","Visual Studio Integration","Daily Backup","Support","Invoices","Business Rules","Goodie Bag","50 Uptime Checks","App Store","Deployment Tracking","AI & Machine Learning","20 Heartbeats","Custom Documents"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":269,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"unlimited","emails":"40,000/month","messages":"1,000,000/month","heartbeats":"20","applications":"unlimited","uptime_checks":"50","retention_days":"90"}}],"summary":"From $26/month for 3 users. 21-day free trial, no credit card required.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://elmah.io/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:04:42.255Z","freeTrialDays":21,"startingPrice":{"amount":26,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.pci | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.bugsnag.com/security/ | - |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | Bugsnag | Elmah.io |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Full-stack | Backend |
| Language / SDK coverage | 50+ platforms | .NET |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Automatic error grouping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Release health / regression tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Enrichment** |  |  |
| Source-map de-minification | ✓ | - |
| Native crash symbolication | ✓ | - |
| PII data scrubbing | ✓ | - |
| **Bundled signals** |  |  |
| Bundled session replay | - | - |
| Bundled performance / APM | ✓ | - |
| **Workflow** |  |  |
| Issue-tracker integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alert rules / on-call routing | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:03:11.662Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*