Sentry changed its pricing model from per-seat to volume-based billing. Here's what each plan actually costs — and how to avoid surprise overages.
Sentry charges separately for additional usage beyond your plan's included quota. This is where teams often get surprised.
| Product | Team Plan Included | Additional Cost |
|---|---|---|
Errors |
50,000/month | ~$0.000290/error |
Performance Spans |
10M/month | ~$0.0000016/span |
Session Replays |
50/month | $0.003/replay |
Attachments |
1GB/month | $0.25/GB |
Cron Monitors |
1 monitor | $0.66/monitor/month |
Uptime Monitors |
1 monitor | $1.00/monitor/month |
Sentry updated its pricing model significantly in 2024. Get instant alerts when pricing changes — before it impacts your team's budget.
Set Up Free Alert Explore Free API| Date | Change | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Pricing model restructure | Moved from per-seat to volume-based quotas. Removed per-member pricing entirely — now flat Team/Business plans with usage quotas. Mixed reaction from community. |
| 2023 | Replay product launched | Session replay added as a new paid product with its own quota. Early users on legacy plans got favorable terms; new signups faced full pricing. |
| 2022 | Performance monitoring costs increased | Performance monitoring (transactions/spans) became a separate quota. Teams using performance features saw bill increases if they exceeded span limits. |
| 2021 | Error quota increase | Team plan included errors quota increased from 10K to 50K/month. Net positive for most teams. |
| Tool | Starting Price | Free Tier | Key Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
Sentry |
$26/month (Team) | 5K errors/month | Most features, usage-based overages |
Bugsnag |
$47/month | 7,500 events/month | Simpler pricing, strong mobile SDK |
Rollbar |
$27/month | 5K occurrences/month | Usage-based similar to Sentry |
Datadog (Error Tracking) |
Included in APM | None (APM paid) | Better if already using Datadog |
PostHog (Exception Tracking) |
Free | 1M events/month | Less error-tracking focus, more analytics |
GlitchTip (OSS) |
$12/month | None | Sentry-compatible API, much cheaper |
By default, Sentry continues accepting events and bills you for the overages at per-unit rates. You can set a monthly spend cap in your organization settings to stop ingestion when you hit a budget limit. Without a cap, errors beyond your plan quota are charged automatically at the overage rate.
Yes — several strategies: (1) Enable Sentry's event sampling for high-volume, repetitive errors. (2) Use inbound filters to drop known noise (browser extensions, bots). (3) Group similar errors to reduce unique event count. (4) Set before-send hooks to filter low-value events client-side. Many teams cut Sentry costs 40-60% with these techniques.
Self-hosting Sentry is free but adds infrastructure overhead. You'll need to run PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and the Sentry web server. Typical self-hosted cost at 100K events/month is $100-200/month in cloud infrastructure (EC2 + RDS) — roughly 4-8x the Team plan cost. Self-hosting makes sense only at Business plan+ scale with compliance requirements.
Yes. Sentry offers a free plan for open-source projects, nonprofits, and some startups through their Sentry for Good and Open Source programs. Check Sentry's website for current eligibility — it's worth applying if your project qualifies, as it can provide Business plan features at no cost.
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