# AppSignal vs Embrace

| Attribute | AppSignal | Embrace |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 56.5 (73% (medium)) | 57.3 (72% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-based monitoring platform that tracks application errors, monitors performance metrics, and correlates issues to specific deployments. Provides automatic error grouping, distributed tracing, log search, and custom metrics for developers. | Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides real user monitoring across mobile and web to tie technical performance to end-user impact. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","alerting":true,"platforms":"backend","error_grouping":true,"release_health":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` | `{"hosting":"cloud","alerting":true,"languages":"JavaScript, React, React Native, OpenTelemetry SDKs","platforms":"full_stack","error_grouping":true,"session_replay":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 3 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Linear"}]` | `[{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free: 50K requests, 1GB logging, 5-day retention","features":["50K requests/month","1GB logging","5-day retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Perfect for startups, hobby, or side-projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logging":"1GB/month","requests":"50K/month","retention":"5-day"}},{"free":false,"name":"Paid","summary":"$279/year ($23.25/month billed yearly)","features":["250K requests/month","1GB logging free","Error tracking with backtrace","Performance monitoring","Host monitoring","Uptime monitoring","Metric dashboards","Process monitoring","Anomaly detection","Real-time alerts","Send to issue tracker","Unlimited users","Unlimited teams","Unlimited applications","Unlimited dashboards"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":279,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Application monitoring with 250K requests/month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logging":"1GB/month","requests":"250K/month"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Long-term log storage","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":89,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"HIPAA Compliance","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":89,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier with 50K requests. Paid plans from $279/year. Add-ons from $89/month.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.appsignal.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:10:08.614Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":279,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"FREE","summary":"Free up to 1M sessions/year, 5 users, 3 days retention","features":["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","Web: Core Web Vitals","Performance tracing with OpenTelemetry","Network performance","Error tracking & logging","Exception reporting","Up to 10 alert policies"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Made for small apps, development or staging environments","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"5","sessions":"1M/year","data_retention":"3 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"PRO","summary":"$0.80 per 1,000 sessions (min $80/month), 14 days retention","features":["All FREE features","Custom dashboards","API access & metrics data forwarding","Role-based access controls","Jira integration","Slack integration","PagerDuty integration","Standard customer support","Metrics forwarding via PromQL API","Spans forwarding via TraceQL API","Custom metrics","Logs: Error logs free, info/warning/system logs $0.50/GB"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"session","amount":0.8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Made to give best-in-class performance insights for production apps","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"10","data_retention":"14 days","min_spend_month":"$80"}},{"free":false,"name":"ENTERPRISE","summary":"Custom pricing, unlimited users, 30 days retention, annual contract","features":["All PRO features","Unlimited users","Custom metrics included based on session volume","Events and spans forwarding","Network span forwarding","Event data forwarding","Code owners and telemetry tagging","Workflow automation","Gold-tier customer support","Dedicated CSM with annual contracts","Logs: Error logs free, info/warning/system logs $1.00/GB"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Made to automate workflow across multi-team development projects at scale","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"users":"Unlimited","min_spend":"$80","data_retention":"30 days"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring (Web only)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"checks"},"kind":"metered","amount":15,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.80 per 1,000 sessions. Free tier for 1M sessions/year.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://embrace.io/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:12:26.878Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | AppSignal | Embrace |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Backend | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | - | JavaScript, React, React Native, OpenTelemetry SDKs |
| **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 only | Cloud only |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:18:07.870Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*