# Embrace vs GlitchTip

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Embrace

| Attribute | Embrace | GlitchTip |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 57.3 (72% (medium)) | 43 (40% (low)) |
| 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. | A monitoring platform consolidating error tracking, performance analysis, and uptime checking. Available as a hosted service or self-hosted via open source code. |
| 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":"Sentry-compatible SDKs","platforms":"full_stack","error_grouping":true,"performance_monitoring":true}` |
| integrations.count | 3 | 2 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"}]` | `[{"name":"MCP (AI Integration)"},{"name":"CLI"}]` |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| 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":"Free","features":["Up to 1,000 events/mo","Error tracking","Unlimited projects","Unlimited team members"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For personal projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"1k/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Small","summary":"$15/month","features":["Up to 100k events/mo","Support access"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For small teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"100k/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Medium","summary":"$50/month","features":["Up to 500k events/mo","Priority email & live chat support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For growing businesses","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"500k/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Large","summary":"$250/month","features":["Up to 3 million events/mo","Development support & prioritization","Business Associate Agreement (BAA) available upon request"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":250,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For large scaling organizations","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"3m/mo"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"HIPAA-compliant hosting (US Healthcare)"},{"name":"EU hosting (Germany) - data sovereignty"}],"summary":"Free tier at 1k events/mo. Paid plans $15–$250/month based on event volume. Annual billing and non-profit discounts available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://glitchtip.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T12:12:46.806Z","startingPrice":{"amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | Embrace | GlitchTip |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Full-stack | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | JavaScript, React, React Native, OpenTelemetry SDKs | Sentry-compatible 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 + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:26:53.069Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*