Sentry vs Rollbar
Application monitoring, error tracking, tracing, session replay
vs. Continuous code improvement — real-time error tracking + AI triage
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
Rollbar
Free
$0. 5,000 events/month. 1 user. 30-day retention. Basic alerts.
Free
Essentials
$21/mo (starting). 25K events/mo. Unlimited users. 30-day retention. Slack/Jira integrations.
$21/mo
Advanced
$79/mo (starting). 100K events/mo. Deployment tracking, RQL, AI triage. 180-day retention.
$79/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Starting ~$599/mo. 1M+ events. SSO, audit logs, HIPAA, priority support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing self-hosted on Sentry vs free on Rollbar.
| Metric | Sentry | Rollbar |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
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.
Rollbar · 15 features
- Alerts — Rule-based alerts to Slack/email/PagerDuty.
- Custom Events — Log arbitrary events via API.
- Deploy Tracking — Annotate errors with deploy SHAs.
- Error Tracking — Capture uncaught exceptions + crashes.
- Intelligent Grouping — Fingerprint-based deduplication.
- Notifiers — 60+ alert channels (Slack, Jira, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, etc.).
- Person Tracking — Tie errors to end users.
- Real User Monitoring — Browser performance + error correlation.
- Rollbar AI Triage — AI root-cause analysis + suggested fixes.
- RQL Query — SQL-like error querying.
- Session Replay (add-on) — Video-like user session reconstruction.
- Source Maps — Minified JS → original.
- Telemetry Timeline — Breadcrumbs of events before crash.
- Webhooks — Outbound event streaming.
- Workflow Automations — Auto-assign owners, auto-close resolved items.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Sentry | Rollbar |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | rollbar-go, rollbar.js (browser), rollbar (Node), rollbar-php, rollbar (Python), rollbar (Ruby) |
| REST | Sentry REST API | Rollbar REST API |
| MCP | Sentry MCP | — |
| OTHER | Webhooks (Alerts) | Rollbar Dashboard, Rollbar Webhooks |
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