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GlitchTip vs Sentry

Two sides of the error monitoring decision: self-hosted tracker and hosted service. When each fits, what it costs, who moves from one to the other, and what makers who chose it say.

GlitchTipSelf-hosted trackerCLI
SentryHosted servicellms.txtMCPCLI
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Which fits you

Choose GlitchTip if
  • Your error data must stay on your own servers

Use it whenYou want error data on your own infrastructure or a lighter stack than self-hosted Sentry.

Trade-offFewer features than Sentry, and you run the upgrades and backups.

Choose Sentry if
  • You want the widest SDK coverage and tracing next to errors
  • Your product is a mobile app and crash-free rates per release matter
  • Your error data must stay on your own servers

Use it whenYou want one tool that covers every language and framework in your stack, frontend to backend.

Trade-offEvent-based billing can jump after a noisy bug; the self-hosted version needs a sizeable server.

At a glance

GlitchTipSentry
Used byNo maker's product yet162 makers' products · 263 open-source projects
Cost at default usageerrors 50k events$15/mo Small$29/mo Team
Moved to it on GitHubpull requests since Oct 20244 from Sentryfewer than 3
Downloads33.8M/wk+4% vs npm
PricingFree tier (1,000 events/month) on hosted plan; paid hosted tiers by volume; free if self-hosted. · paid from $15/moFree tier; usage-based paid plans by event volume; self-hosted option available. · paid from $26/mo
Free tierYesYes
Open sourceYes · self-hostableNo · self-hostable
Incidents, 90 daysfrom its status pageno public status feed28 (15 major)

Cost as you grow

Both cost $0 up to 1k events; from 5k events Sentry costs less ($0 vs $15); from about 10k events GlitchTip does ($15 vs $29); from about 1M events Sentry does ($228 vs $250). They're different kinds of tool — self-hosted tracker and hosted service — so the prices don't buy the same thing.

$0$20$100$5001k5k10k50k100k500k1M5M
SentryGlitchTipx: errors per month (event) · cheapest usable plan at each point, list prices · try your own numbers
The numbers, plan by plan
Errors per monthGlitchTipSentry
1,000$0 Free$0 Developer
5,000$15 Small$0 Developer
10,000$15 Small$29 Team
50,000$15 Small$29 Team
100,000$15 Small$47 Team
500,000$50 Medium$135 Team
1,000,000$250 Large$228 Team
5,000,000over plan limits$978 Team

From each vendor's pricing page: GlitchTip, Sentry.

Who moves from one to the other

Public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024 whose title says "GlitchTip to Sentry" or the reverse — real code changes, by developers in general rather than makers only.

Sentry → GlitchTip4 PRs
All matching pull requests on GitHub ↗
Fewer than 3 pull requests move from GlitchTip to Sentry.

What makers say

Makers on using it for error monitoring, from Product Hunt and Starter Story interviews, each linked to the source. Products with a page of their own and fuller notes first.

On GlitchTip

No maker quote about GlitchTip for error monitoring yet.

On Sentry
Sentry gives us one place to investigate errors across Marqly’s web app and API. The error context is especially useful when tracing a failed save, sync, or AI Organizer run.
Marqly, the makerSep 2026 ↗
…use to support our work, which are: GitLab: For Git workflows, CI/CD, and issue tracking Sentry : For monitoring our application hosted on Vercel Uptimerobot : For downtime alerts and t…
bestcourses, the makerSep 2022 ↗
…e - Payments Google reCAPTCHA v3 - Spam protection Amazon Web Services - Platform hosting Sentry - Bug tracking Additionally, the following communities have been an invaluable support gr…
email us, the makerNov 2021 ↗
60 more on the Sentry page →

Loved and watch-outs

Themes that recur in makers' words and Hacker News comments, each linked to what it summarises.

GlitchTip
Most loved
  • It accepts Sentry SDKs, so switching from Sentry is mostly a DSN change. HNHN 2HN 3
  • It is far lighter to self-host than modern Sentry, needing a few containers rather than a large server, while covering what small teams need. HNHN 2HN 3HN 4
  • It is MIT-licensed open source, unlike Sentry's source-available license. HNHN 2
Watch-outs
  • The UI is buggier than Sentry's, and actions like resolving issues do not always work. HNHN 2
  • It has fewer features than Sentry, especially for performance monitoring and observability. HNHN 2HN 3
Sentry
Most loved
  • Real-time alerts with full stack traces and user context flag production errors before users report them, which matters most for solo builders without QA. PHPH 2PH 3PH 4
  • Issue grouping, release tracking and regression detection, plus links to commits, PRs and issue trackers, turn raw errors into actionable work. PHHNHN 2HN 3
  • Setup is quick, and framework integrations like Next.js trace one error across server, edge and client. PHPH 2PH 3PH 4
Watch-outs
  • Self-hosting the full suite needs around 16GB of RAM, and some teams gave up on running it themselves. HNHN 2HN 3
  • For simple projects it feels like overkill, with a steep price and an overwhelming dashboard. PHHNHN 2
  • Frontend projects get flooded with noise from browser extensions and vague errors that need manual filtering. HNHN 2HN 3
On Product Hunt: 4.9★, 89 reviews · mentioned most: real-time error tracking, performance monitoring, seamless integrations · complaints: expensive pricing

Who uses each

GlitchTip0 makers' products
None tracked yet.
Sentry162 makers' products
24CallDeskAgentQLBeatoven.aibestcoursesBrev.ioBricksCentralChatPalCiroClientJamComigoCompetely+150 more

What makers pair each with

With GlitchTip

Not enough makers' products to say yet.

With Sentry
Transactional Email
Hosting
Payments
Product Analytics

Neither quite right?

See the whole error monitoring decision →
RollbarHosted serviceError grouping tied to releases, with session replays linked to errors.vs Sentry →