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Comparison

Embrace vs Highlight.io

No clear leader: Embrace (57.3) 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.

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Embrace57
Highlight.io52
Score
Vioscale score
Embrace57 / 100medium · 72%updating
Highlight.io52 / 100medium · 74%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✓
Model
Embracefreemium
Highlight.iocommercial
Price level
Embracelow
Highlight.iomid
Transparent
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✓
Integrations
Count
Embrace3
Highlight.io19
Security
Gdpr
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✓
Scorecard
Embrace–
Highlight.io6.5
Soc2
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Embrace–
Highlight.io5
Github stars
Embrace–
Highlight.io9,371
Package downloads weekly
Embrace–
Highlight.io5,623
Activity
Commits last 30d
Embrace–
Highlight.io4
Release
Cadence days
Embrace–
Highlight.io11
History
Embrace–
Highlight.io20 items
License
Spdx
Embrace–
Highlight.ioApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Embrace–
Highlight.ioTypeScript
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Embrace

Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides real user monitoring across mobile and web to tie technical performance to end-user impact.

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.

Embrace

from $0.80/moUsage-basedFree tier

From $0.80 per 1,000 sessions. Free tier for 1M sessions/year.

  • FREEFree
    • User session play-by-play
    • Errors, exceptions, and crashes
    • Basic performance monitoring
    • Basic dashboards and alerting
    • Mobile: Crash reporting, ANR monitoring, Out of memory monitoring, Webview performance
    • +6 more
  • PRO$0.80 per 1,000 sessions (min $80/month), 14 days retention
    • All FREE features
    • Custom dashboards
    • API access & metrics data forwarding
    • Role-based access controls
    • Jira integration
    • +7 more
  • ENTERPRISEContact sales
    • All PRO features
    • Unlimited users
    • Custom metrics included based on session volume
    • Events and spans forwarding
    • Network span forwarding
    • +6 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
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✓
iOS
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✗
Android
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Embrace✓
Highlight.io✓
Self-hosted
Embrace✗
Highlight.io✓

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • Jira
  • Slack

Embrace

3 total - 1 not shared
  • PagerDuty
Independently observed

Highlight.io

19 total - 17 not shared
  • Amplitude
  • ClickUp
  • Discord
  • Electron
  • Front
  • GitHub
  • Grafana
  • Height
  • Intercom
  • LaunchDarkly
  • Linear
  • Mixpanel
  • Nuxt
  • Pendo
  • Segment
  • Vercel
  • WordPress
Independently observed

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