Error & Log Monitoring · decision tool

Better Stack vs Sentry — for your app, not in general

Better Stack or Sentry? Set your usage, budget and constraints; the verdict, monthly cost and risks update live from verified pricing.

Prices verified 2026-07-17 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration

As of Jul 2026, with 50,000 error events/month, 10 GB logs/month, a $50 budget for this slot, Sentry ranks first for these inputs at 93% fit and a StackSays-estimated $28.50/month (Better Stack: 87% fit, $30.00/month). Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

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Error events / month (thousands)50 = 50,000 captured exceptions; a healthy small app is usually well under 50KLog ingestion (GB / month)application + access logs shipped to the platformBudget for this slot ($/mo)what you'd accept paying for the monitoring platform layerTeam size1 = solo; bundled platforms save glue time for small teams

Narrow pick — the runner-up is close

Sentryfit 93% · est $28.50/mo

The default error tracker — errors, traces, replays and now logs in one bill

vs Better Stack: fit 93% against 87%, est $28.50 against $30.00 per month

Sentryfit 93%

$28.50/mo

Better Stackfit 87%

$30.00/mo

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The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 50,000 error events/month and a $50.00/mo budget for the monitoring platform slot, Sentry leads at 93% fit and $28.50/mo. The two rules doing the work: budget fit (~$28.5/mo is 57% of your $50/mo budget); batteries included (Bundles log management, session replay, tracing/APM, uptime monitoring — fewer services to glue at team size 1).

Better Stack runs close (87% fit, $30.00/mo). It takes the lead if ~$30/mo is 60% of your $50/mo budget matters more to you than the current weights assume.

Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.

Why Sentry scores 93%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$28.5/mo is 57% of your $50/mo budget+27.9

Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Bundles log management, session replay, tracing/APM, uptime monitoring — fewer services to glue at team size 1+12

Exit cost (weight 4, our estimate) — Open source / self-hostable — you can take the whole pipeline with you+2.8

Ecosystem maturity (weight 8, our estimate) — established — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool+8

Free-tier runway (weight 10, our estimate) — Free tier exists (5K errors + 5GB logs + 5M spans/month, 1 user, 30-day lookback) — a cheap staging/dev lane even after you outgrow it+4

Total (lines sum exactly)54.7

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(54.7 + 64) / 128 = 93%

How the $28.50/mo estimate is calculated

Team base — includes 50K error events, 5GB log ingestion$26.00

log ingestion overage — 5GB over 5GB included × $0.5/GB$2.50

Note — $26/mo on annual billing; unlimited users; PAYG overage budget is shared across errors/spans/replays/logs$0

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$28.50

What could change this verdict

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$28.50/mo · Team

Free-tier statusFree tier exceeded (error events 50K > 5K cap)

Official prices verified 2026-07-17; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
Sentry	5K errors + 5GB logs + 5M spans/month, 1 user, 30-day lookback	Team $26/mo	2026-07-17
Better Stack	3GB logs + 3GB traces (3-day retention), 10 uptime monitors, 1 status page	Telemetry Nano $30/mo	2026-07-17

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
Sentry	Sentry pricing page	2026-07-17
Better Stack	Better Stack pricing page	2026-07-17

A monitor re-checks these pages for changes; when a vendor moves a price, the date updates and every verdict recomputes.

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