# Bugsnag vs Sentry

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Sentry

| Attribute | Bugsnag | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 51.9 (73% (medium)) | 69.7 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 209 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 45,550 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 34,182,735 |
| adoption.stackoverflow_questions | - | 6,100 |
| 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":"Sentry is an error tracking and application monitoring platform that helps development teams identify, diagnose, and resolve issues in their software. It captures errors, performance data, session replays, logs, and metrics across applications, then groups similar problems together and provides context about what caused failures.","source":"https://sentry.io","question":"What is Sentry and what does it do?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Sentry supports over 20 platforms including web frameworks (JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, .NET, Rust), mobile platforms (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter), desktop environments (Windows, macOS), and game engines (Unity, Unreal Engine). The platform also supports 60+ individual frameworks and libraries across these languages.","source":"https://docs.sentry.io","question":"What programming languages and platforms does Sentry support?","confidence":0.93},{"answer":"Sentry offers a freemium model with a free Developer plan for solo projects, tiered paid plans starting at Team and Business levels billed monthly or annually, and custom Enterprise pricing. All plans follow a \"Pay as You Grow\" model where usage beyond included data limits incurs additional charges.","source":"https://sentry.io/pricing/","question":"What is Sentry's pricing model?","confidence":0.94},{"answer":"Sentry is published under a fair-source license and is available as open-source software on GitHub, allowing organizations to self-host the platform on their own infrastructure. The source code is publicly accessible and can be deployed in self-managed environments or used via Sentry's SaaS offering.","source":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry","question":"Is Sentry open source?","confidence":0.9},{"answer":"Sentry tracks application errors and exceptions, performance traces showing request paths across services, session replays that record user interactions, custom metrics and logs, code profiling data for identifying performance bottlenecks, and AI workflow execution (LLM calls and agent conversations). It also provides features like cron monitoring and uptime checks.","source":"https://docs.sentry.io/product/","question":"What types of data does Sentry monitor?","confidence":0.92},{"answer":"Sentry integrates with version control systems (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), project management tools (Jira, Linear, Asana), messaging platforms (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord), monitoring and deployment services (Datadog, Vercel, Netlify), and SSO providers (Okta, Auth0). Custom integrations can be built through Sentry's integration platform.","source":"https://sentry.io/integrations/","question":"What integrations does Sentry offer?","confidence":0.93},{"answer":"Sentry is designed for development teams and organizations building web, mobile, or desktop applications who need visibility into production errors and performance issues. It serves use cases ranging from solo developers working on small projects to large enterprises managing complex distributed systems, with over 150,000 organizations currently using the platform.","source":"https://sentry.io/features/","question":"Who should use Sentry?","confidence":0.92},{"answer":"Sentry operates as a SaaS platform hosted by the company with data center options in the US or EU, but organizations can also choose self-hosted deployment for greater control over data location and security. The platform uses Relay as a data security solution for self-hosted and hybrid deployments.","source":"https://docs.sentry.io","question":"How does Sentry handle data storage and deployment?","confidence":0.88}]` |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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":"Android, Apple (iOS), Django, .NET, Go, JavaScript, Laravel, PHP, Python, Flutte","platforms":"full_stack","source_maps":true,"data_scrubbing":true,"error_grouping":true,"release_health":true,"session_replay":true,"native_symbolication":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 30 | 50 |
| 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":"Jira"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Heroku"},{"name":"Segment"},{"name":"Trello"},{"name":"Rookout"},{"name":"Shortcut"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Vercel","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Splunk","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Expo","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Netlify","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Amazon SQS","native":true,"category":"messaging","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Auth0","native":true,"category":"sso","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Azure DevOps","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"ClickUp","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Cloudflare","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Compass","native":true,"category":"software_catalog","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Discord","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"FullStory","native":true,"category":"session_replay","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Grafana","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Height","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"InsightFinder","native":true,"category":"analytics","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Komodor","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"LaunchDarkly","native":true,"category":"feature_flags","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"sso","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OneLogin","native":true,"category":"sso","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OpenReplay","native":true,"category":"session_replay","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Opsgenie","native":true,"category":"alerting","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PagerTree","native":true,"category":"alerting","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Pivotal Tracker","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Pushover","native":true,"category":"notifications","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Redmine","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Rocket.Chat","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Rootly","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"SessionStack","native":true,"category":"session_replay","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Spike.sh","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Strapi","native":true,"category":"cms","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"TaskCall","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Teamwork","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vendure","native":true,"category":"ecommerce","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"VictorOps","native":true,"category":"alerting","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"incident.io","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","category":"cloud_services"},{"name":"Cursor","category":"development"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | BSL-1.1 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"ios":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"android":true,"windows":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":"Team"},{"free":false,"name":"Business"},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise"}],"addOns":[{"name":"Seer","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"active contributor","amount":40,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid plans: Team, Business, Enterprise. Seer add-on: $40/active contributor/month","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sentry.io","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T15:12:04.003Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":26,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 12 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/scraps-v0.1.0","date":"2026-10-06T19:00:15Z","type":"stable","version":"scraps-v0.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.9.0","date":"2026-09-15T17:19:59Z","type":"stable","version":"26.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.8.0","date":"2026-08-15T17:18:42Z","type":"stable","version":"26.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.7.2","date":"2026-07-28T17:12:19Z","type":"stable","version":"26.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.7.1","date":"2026-07-23T20:25:11Z","type":"stable","version":"26.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.7.0","date":"2026-07-15T17:43:22Z","type":"stable","version":"26.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.6.0","date":"2026-06-15T23:54:15Z","type":"stable","version":"26.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.5.2","date":"2026-06-02T18:34:00Z","type":"stable","version":"26.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.5.1","date":"2026-05-27T16:47:58Z","type":"stable","version":"26.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.5.0","date":"2026-05-18T08:10:19Z","type":"stable","version":"26.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.4.2","date":"2026-05-05T13:43:20Z","type":"stable","version":"26.4.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.4.1","date":"2026-04-22T19:31:24Z","type":"stable","version":"26.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.4.0","date":"2026-04-15T18:56:16Z","type":"stable","version":"26.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.3.1","date":"2026-03-17T17:23:26Z","type":"stable","version":"26.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.3.0","date":"2026-03-16T16:42:48Z","type":"stable","version":"26.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.2.1","date":"2026-02-21T00:38:51Z","type":"stable","version":"26.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.2.0","date":"2026-02-18T21:42:29Z","type":"stable","version":"26.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/26.1.0","date":"2026-01-15T20:07:43Z","type":"stable","version":"26.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/25.12.1","date":"2025-12-23T16:34:49Z","type":"stable","version":"25.12.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/releases/tag/25.12.0","date":"2025-12-15T18:42:00Z","type":"stable","version":"25.12.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.3 |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.bugsnag.com/security/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":15,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=sentry&per_page=100","last_12m":3,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | Bugsnag | Sentry |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Full-stack | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | 50+ platforms | Android, Apple (iOS), Django, .NET, Go, JavaScript, Laravel, PHP, Python, Flutte |
| **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 2026-10-16T20:46:14.511Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*