# Highlight.io vs Sentry

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Sentry

| Attribute | Highlight.io | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 46.6 (74% (medium)) | 69.7 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 3 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 5 | 209 |
| adoption.github_stars | 9,382 | 45,550 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 1,198 | 34,182,735 |
| adoption.stackoverflow_questions | - | 6,100 |
| content.faq | `[{"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}]` | `[{"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,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A monitoring platform that helps developers understand what bugs are happening and why through error monitoring, session replay, logging, and distributed tracing capabilities. | 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":"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}` | `{"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 | 19 | 50 |
| integrations.list | `[{"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"}]` | `[{"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 | TypeScript | Python |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | BSL-1.1 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"ios":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"android":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"}` | `{"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 | 11 | 12 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| 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 | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.5 | 6.3 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| 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}` | `{"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 | Highlight.io | Sentry |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Full-stack | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, C# .NET, Elixir, React | 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 2026-10-16T19:17:19.961Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*