# Exceptionless vs Highlight.io

| Attribute | Exceptionless | Highlight.io |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 51.7 (40% (low)) | 52.4 (74% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 4 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 5 |
| adoption.github_stars | 2,455 | 9,371 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 5,623 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","alerting":true,"languages":"JavaScript, Node.js, .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#","platforms":"full_stack","error_grouping":true}` | `{"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}` |
| integrations.count | 2 | 19 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Slack"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | C# | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month","features":["500 monthly sessions","AI error grouping","Up to 15 seats"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Starter plan with limited features","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"seats":"15","sessions":"500/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pay-as-you-go","summary":"From $50/month","features":["Up to 3 dashboards","Up to 2 projects","Up to 15 seats","Up to 7 day retention"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Usage-based plan with base fee plus metered charges","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"seats":"15","projects":"2","dashboards":"3","retention_days":"7"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"From $800/month","features":["Unlimited dashboards","Unlimited projects","Unlimited seats","Custom retention policies","Filters for data ingest"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":800,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Full-featured plan for teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"seats":"Unlimited","projects":"Unlimited","dashboards":"Unlimited"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["SAML & SSO","Custom MSAs & SLAs","RBAC & audit logs","Data export & user reporting"],"description":"Custom enterprise plan with advanced security and compliance features","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Self-Hosted Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","description":"Enterprise plan for self-hosted deployments","contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $0 (free) to $800+/month (business); usage-based add-ons for overage","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T13:41:15.024Z","startingPrice":{"amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | mid | mid |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 2 | 11 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.5 |
| 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}` | `{"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}` |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | Exceptionless | Highlight.io |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Full-stack | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | JavaScript, Node.js, .NET Core, ASP.NET, C# | JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, C# .NET, Elixir, React |
| **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 + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:20:45.920Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*