# Bugsnag vs Highlight.io

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Bugsnag

| Attribute | Bugsnag | Highlight.io |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 51.9 (73% (medium)) | 46.6 (74% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 3 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 5 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 9,382 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 1,198 |
| 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 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. It is indexed under Error Tracking Software.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"What is Highlight.io?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Highlight.io is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $50 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.highlight.io/pricing","question":"Is Highlight.io free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Highlight.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://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Highlight.io support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Highlight.io can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"Can Highlight.io be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 19 integrations for Highlight.io, including Amplitude, ClickUp, Discord, Electron, Front, GitHub, Grafana and Height, plus 11 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"What does Highlight.io integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Highlight.io. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Highlight.io not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.highlight.io","question":"What security certifications does Highlight.io have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Highlight.io is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://pypi.org/pypi/highlight-io/json","question":"Is Highlight.io open source?","confidence":0.9},{"answer":"Highlight.io is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"Where is Highlight.io available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":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 monitoring platform that helps developers understand what bugs are happening and why through error monitoring, session replay, logging, and distributed tracing capabilities. |
| 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":"both","alerting":true,"languages":"JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, C# .NET, Elixir, React","platforms":"full_stack","source_maps":true,"data_scrubbing":true,"error_grouping":true,"session_replay":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 30 | 19 |
| 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":"Amplitude"},{"name":"ClickUp"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Electron"},{"name":"Front"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Height"},{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"LaunchDarkly"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"Mixpanel"},{"name":"Nuxt"},{"name":"Pendo"},{"name":"Segment"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"WordPress"},{"name":"Firebase"},{"name":"Stripe"}]` |
| language.primary | - | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":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":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","includedLimits":{"seats":"15"}}],"freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T21:01:42.433Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 11 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.6","date":"2025-08-08T15:42:36Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.5","date":"2025-06-23T05:16:13Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.4","date":"2025-02-12T22:59:28Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.3","date":"2025-02-12T15:41:32Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.2","date":"2025-02-06T16:48:56Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.1","date":"2025-01-30T12:38:34Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.0","date":"2025-01-24T17:07:26Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.10","date":"2025-01-13T14:30:05Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.9","date":"2024-12-16T22:47:53Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.8.a","date":"2024-11-27T01:46:21Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.8.a"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.8","date":"2024-11-27T00:38:57Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.7","date":"2024-11-15T18:15:51Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.6","date":"2024-09-26T19:15:11Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.5","date":"2024-09-07T16:51:23Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.4","date":"2024-08-09T21:57:12Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.3","date":"2024-08-01T23:42:10Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.2","date":"2024-07-11T18:00:36Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.1","date":"2024-07-11T16:23:00Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.2-preview","date":"2024-07-11T17:26:31Z","type":"prerelease","version":"docker-v0.4.2-preview"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.0","date":"2024-07-02T01:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.5 |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.bugsnag.com/security/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=highlight-io&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | Bugsnag | Highlight.io |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Full-stack | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | 50+ platforms | JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, C# .NET, Elixir, React |
| **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 + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:32:06.911Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*