# Embrace vs Exceptionless

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Embrace

| Attribute | Embrace | Exceptionless |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 57.3 (72% (medium)) | 51.7 (40% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 2,455 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides real user monitoring across mobile and web to tie technical performance to end-user impact. | Exceptionless collects application errors and exceptions from JavaScript, Node.js, .NET, and ASP.NET applications, organizes them into actionable insights, and provides a self-hosted or cloud-based dashboard to monitor application reliability. |
| features.capabilities | `{"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}` | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"languages":"JavaScript, Node.js, .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#","platforms":"full_stack","error_grouping":true}` |
| integrations.count | 3 | 2 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"}]` | `[{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Slack"}]` |
| language.primary | - | C# |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month","features":["Event tracking","Basic dashboard"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"1","projects":"1","retention_days":"3","events_per_month":"3,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Small","summary":"$15/month","features":["Searching","Error notifications","Webhooks","Slack integration","Zapier integration"],"minSeats":10,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"10","projects":"5","retention_days":"30","events_per_month":"15,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Medium","summary":"$49/month","features":["Searching","Error notifications","Webhooks","Slack integration","Zapier integration"],"minSeats":25,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"25","projects":"15","retention_days":"90","events_per_month":"75,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Large","summary":"$99/month","features":["Searching","Error notifications","Webhooks","Slack integration","Zapier integration"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"Unlimited","projects":"Unlimited","retention_days":"180","events_per_month":"250,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Extra Large","summary":"$199/month","features":["Searching","Error notifications","Webhooks","Slack integration","Zapier integration"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":199,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"Unlimited","projects":"Unlimited","retention_days":"180","events_per_month":"1,000,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$499/month","features":["Searching","Error notifications","Webhooks","Slack integration","Zapier integration"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":499,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"Unlimited","projects":"Unlimited","retention_days":"180","events_per_month":"3,000,000"}}],"summary":"From $0 (free) to $499/month. Free tier with 3,000 events/month.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://exceptionless.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:10:18.577Z","startingPrice":{"amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 2 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.8.3","date":"2026-08-25T21:22:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.8.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.8.2","date":"2026-08-25T01:34:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.8.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.8.1","date":"2026-08-22T20:06:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.8.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.8.0","date":"2026-08-18T01:21:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.8","date":"2026-08-14T04:29:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.7","date":"2026-08-12T15:53:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.6","date":"2026-08-12T04:25:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.5","date":"2026-08-12T03:40:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.4","date":"2026-08-10T19:29:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.3","date":"2026-08-09T15:45:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.2","date":"2026-08-04T22:02:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.1","date":"2026-07-29T01:04:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.7.0","date":"2026-07-28T15:26:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.6.2","date":"2026-07-06T02:08:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.6.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.6.1","date":"2026-07-01T00:12:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.6.0","date":"2026-06-26T02:45:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.6.0-rc2","date":"2026-06-23T01:05:54Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v8.6.0-rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.6.0-rc1","date":"2026-06-22T14:44:10Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v8.6.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.5.2","date":"2026-06-08T00:52:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/exceptionless/Exceptionless/releases/tag/v8.5.1","date":"2026-06-05T13:35:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.5.1"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nuget&package_name=exceptionless.nancy&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | Embrace | Exceptionless |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Full-stack | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | JavaScript, React, React Native, OpenTelemetry SDKs | JavaScript, Node.js, .NET Core, ASP.NET, C# |
| **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 + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:35:07.020Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*