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GlitchTip alternatives — ranked for your stack

Leaving GlitchTip? The other monitoring platform options ranked at your usage, budget and constraints with verified dated pricing — plus when GlitchTip is still the right call.

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, Grafana Cloud ranks first for these inputs at 97% fit and a StackSays-estimated $0/month (New Relic: 96% fit, $0/month). Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

The verdict updates as you move these.

Toss-up — your priorities decide, not the tools

Grafana Cloudfit 97% · est $0/mo

The full LGTM stack with a solid forever-free tier; Pro metering is easy to underestimate

vs New Relic: fit 97% against 96%, est $0 against $0 per month — genuinely close; read both risk lists below

Grafana Cloudfit 97%
$0/mo
New Relicfit 96%
$0/mo
Sentryfit 93%
$28.50/mo
Better Stackfit 87%
$30.00/mo
Axiomfit 84%
$0/mo
Datadogfit 83%
$16.00+/mo

Comparing 6 tools head-to-head. Open the full field (7 options) →

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, Grafana Cloud leads at 97% fit and $0/mo. The two rules doing the work: budget fit (Runs free at your usage — $0 vs your $50/mo budget); free-tier runway (Your usage fits the free tier today (50GB logs + 50GB traces + 50GB profiles + 10K metric series, 3 users, 14-day retention)).

New Relic is a genuine coin-flip here (96% fit, $0/mo) — read both risk lists and pick the failure mode you prefer.

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

Why Grafana Cloud scores 97%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — Runs free at your usage — $0 vs your $50/mo budget+30
Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Bundles log management, tracing/APM, uptime monitoring — fewer services to glue at team size 1+9
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) — Your usage fits the free tier today (50GB logs + 50GB traces + 50GB profiles + 10K metric series, 3 users, 14-day retention)+10
Total (lines sum exactly)59.8
Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(59.8 + 64) / 128 = 97%

How the $0/mo estimate is calculated

Your usage fits Grafana Cloud's free tier (50GB logs + 50GB traces + 50GB profiles + 10K metric series, 3 users, 14-day retention) — the estimate is $0.

What could change this verdict

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$0/mo · Free
Free-tier statusOn the free tier (50GB logs + 50GB traces + 50GB profiles + 10K metric series, 3 users, 14-day retention)
Next known billing thresholdFree caps at 50GB log ingestion — beyond that you change plans

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

At a glance

ToolFree tierPaid entryVerified
Sentry5K errors + 5GB logs + 5M spans/month, 1 user, 30-day lookbackTeam $26/mo2026-07-17
Better Stack3GB logs + 3GB traces (3-day retention), 10 uptime monitors, 1 status pageTelemetry Nano $30/mo2026-07-17
Axiom500GB/month ingest, 30-day retention, 25GB storage, no credit cardAxiom Cloud $25/mo2026-07-17
Grafana Cloud50GB logs + 50GB traces + 50GB profiles + 10K metric series, 3 users, 14-day retentionPro $19/mo2026-07-17
New Relic100GB/month all-telemetry ingest, 1 full-platform user, retention ≥8 daysStandard $10/mo2026-07-17
DatadogNo free tierInfrastructure Pro + logs $15/mo2026-07-17
Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

ToolSourceVerified
SentrySentry pricing page2026-07-17
Better StackBetter Stack pricing page2026-07-17
AxiomAxiom pricing page2026-07-17
Grafana CloudGrafana Cloud pricing page2026-07-17
New RelicNew Relic pricing page2026-07-17
DatadogDatadog pricing page2026-07-17

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

Keep deciding

Compare head-to-head

GlitchTip vs Sentry — for your app, not in general →Better Stack vs Sentry — for your app, not in general →Grafana Cloud vs Datadog — for your app, not in general →New Relic vs Datadog — for your app, not in general →New Relic vs Sentry — for your app, not in general →Better Stack vs Datadog — for your app, not in general →

Alternatives

Sentry alternatives — priced at your error volume →Datadog alternatives — ranked for your stack →New Relic alternatives — ranked for your stack →Better Stack alternatives — ranked for your stack →Grafana Cloud alternatives — ranked for your stack →Axiom alternatives — ranked for your stack →

Migration paths

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