Pusher vs Sentry
Realtime pub/sub WebSocket Channels + programmatic push (Beams)
vs. Application monitoring, error tracking, tracing, session replay
Pricing tiers
Pusher
Beams: Sandbox
Free. 1K subscribers.
$0 base (usage-based)
Channels: Sandbox
Free. 100 concurrent conns, 200K msg/day.
$0 base (usage-based)
Beams: Startup
$29/mo. 10K subscribers.
$29/mo
Channels: Startup
$49/mo. 500 concurrent conns, 1M msg/day.
$49/mo
Channels: Pro
$99/mo. 2K concurrent conns, 4M msg/day.
$99/mo
Beams: Pro
$99/mo. 50K subscribers.
$99/mo
Beams: Business
$199/mo. 115K subscribers.
$199/mo
Channels: Business
$299/mo. 5K concurrent, 10M msg/day.
$299/mo
Beams: Premium
$399/mo. 250K subscribers.
$399/mo
Channels: Premium
$499/mo. 10K concurrent, 20M msg/day.
$499/mo
Channels: Growth
$699/mo. 15K concurrent, 40M msg/day.
$699/mo
Channels: Plus
$899/mo. 20K concurrent, 60M msg/day.
$899/mo
Channels: Growth Plus
$1,199/mo. 30K concurrent, 90M msg/day.
$1199/mo
Channels: Enterprise
Custom. 10M+ concurrent, 100B+ msg/day. SLA, dedicated support.
Custom
Sentry
Developer (Free)
Single user. 5k errors + 5M spans + 5GB logs + 50 replays + 1GB attachments per month.
Free
Self-Hosted (OSS)
BSL-licensed. Docker-based deploy. Free for personal/internal, commercial requires license.
$0 base (usage-based)
Team
$26/mo annual ($29/mo). Unlimited users. 50k errors/mo. 20 custom dashboards. Third-party integrations.
$26/mo
Business
$80/mo annual. 90-day insights lookback, unlimited dashboards, anomaly-detection alerts, SAML + SCIM.
$80/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated TAM, premium support, single-tenant option.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing be-sandbox on Pusher vs self-hosted on Sentry.
| Metric | Pusher | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| subscribers | 1000 subscribers | — |
Features
Pusher · 11 features
- Beams — Push notifications for iOS/Android/Web with device interest groups.
- Beams Authenticated Users — Target users by auth user ID across devices.
- Channels — WebSocket pub/sub — realtime events, live updates, notifications.
- Channels Webhooks — Receive server-side notifications of channel activity.
- Client Events — Publish events from clients directly (triggered from browser).
- Debug Console — Live channel debugging dashboard.
- Encrypted Channels — End-to-end encrypted messages.
- Global Clusters — US, EU, AP-Southeast, etc. Pick nearest region.
- Presence Channels — Track who is online in a channel.
- Private Channels — Auth-required channels with server-signed tokens.
- Stats — Connection / message dashboards.
Sentry · 16 features
- Alerts — Metric + issue-based alerts routed to Slack/PagerDuty/email/etc.
- Cron Monitoring — Check-in pings for scheduled jobs. Alert on missed/failed runs.
- Distributed Tracing — Performance monitoring spans across services. Connect frontend → backend → DB.
- Error Tracking — Capture exceptions with stack traces, breadcrumbs, tags, release info, user cont…
- Insights — Pre-built dashboards per domain: Frontend, Backend, Mobile, AI, Database, LLM, e…
- LLM Monitoring — Track OpenAI/Anthropic/etc calls, token usage, cost, errors.
- Logs — Centralized structured logging correlated with errors + traces.
- Profiling — CPU profiling for Python, Node.js, Go, PHP, Ruby, Android, iOS.
- Release Health — Adoption + crash-free rate per release version.
- Releases — Track deploys, commit hooks, source map upload, bisect.
- Seer (AI Debug) — Root cause analysis + fix suggestions for issues via AI.
- Self-Hosting — Docker-based self-host. Feature parity.
- Session Replay — Record DOM + network to replay user sessions that hit errors.
- Source Maps — Auto-symbolicate minified code. Upload via CLI or Webpack/Vite plugin.
- Uptime Monitoring — Synthetic checks for HTTP endpoints.
- User Feedback — In-app feedback widget tied to sessions.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Pusher | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | Sentry CLI |
| SDK | Pusher Beams Android, Pusher Beams iOS, Pusher Beams Web SDK, pusher-http-go, pusher-http-java, pusher-http-php, pusher-js (client), pusher (Node), pusher (Python), pusher (Ruby), PusherSwift, pusher-websocket-java (Android) | sentry-android, @sentry/browser, sentry-cocoa (iOS), sentry-dotnet, sentry_flutter, sentry-go, sentry-java, @sentry/node, sentry-php, @sentry/react-native, sentry-ruby, sentry-sdk (Python), sentry-unity |
| REST | Beams Publish API, Pusher HTTP API | Sentry REST API |
| MCP | — | Sentry MCP |
| OTHER | Channels Webhooks, Pusher WebSocket | Webhooks (Alerts) |
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