Sentry vs Kinde
Application monitoring, error tracking, tracing, session replay
vs. Flexible authentication, user management, and feature flags
Pricing tiers
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
Kinde
Free
10,500 MAU included. MFA, B2B orgs, custom domain, 2 custom roles, 1 webhook, 2 environments.
Free
Pro
Unlimited webhooks, roles, feature flags, API keys. Remove Kinde branding. SOC 2 attestation.
$25/mo
Plus
Unlimited enterprise SSO, API scopes, org-owned M2M apps, 6 environments.
$75/mo
Scale
11 environments, custom domain per org, SCIM, MFA triggers, 30-day audit logs.
$250/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated infra option, volume discounts, custom SLAs.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing self-hosted on Sentry vs free on Kinde.
| Metric | Sentry | Kinde |
|---|---|---|
| custom roles | — | 2 roles |
| environments | — | 2 envs |
| feature flags | — | 10 flags |
| mau included | — | 10500 users/month |
| webhooks | — | 1 webhooks |
Features
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.
Kinde · 14 features
- API Scopes — OAuth scopes for your APIs, enforced server-side (Plus+).
- B2B Organizations — Multi-tenant orgs with user roles, invitations, feature flags per org.
- Custom Domain — Host auth at auth.yourbrand.com. Free tier includes this.
- Enterprise SSO — SAML 2.0 + OIDC enterprise connections (Plus unlimited).
- Feature Flags — Built-in feature flags with per-user/org overrides. No separate service needed.
- Kinde AI — AI-assisted query and insights over your Kinde data.
- Kinde Billing (preview) — Built-in subscription billing linked to users/orgs. Stripe under the hood.
- Machine-to-Machine — Client credentials grant for service-to-service auth.
- Multi-Factor Auth — TOTP authenticator apps, SMS, email, passkey.
- Passwordless — Email code + passkey (WebAuthn).
- Roles & Permissions — RBAC with roles → permissions. Assigned per user or per organization.
- SCIM Provisioning — Directory provisioning from IdPs (Scale tier).
- Sign-in Widget — Hosted pages + themeable widget for login/signup. Customizable with CSS.
- Webhooks — Event webhooks: user.created/updated, organization events, MFA, etc.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Sentry | Kinde |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Sentry CLI | — |
| SDK | 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 | Kinde Android / Kotlin, Kinde Flutter SDK, Kinde Go SDK, Kinde iOS / Swift, @kinde-oss/kinde-auth-nextjs, @kinde-oss/kinde-auth-react, @kinde-oss/kinde-nodejs-sdk, Kinde Python SDK |
| REST | Sentry REST API | Kinde Management API |
| MCP | Sentry MCP | Kinde MCP |
| OTHER | Webhooks (Alerts) | — |
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