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9 Best Error Tracking Tools of 2026

By the KeenVerdict research desk · Updated November 12, 2026 · Next review December 27, 2026 · 9 products scored

Our pickSentryEngineering teams that want errors, traces and replays in one tool9.1

Our verdict

Sentry is the default pick: it groups errors into issues, links them to suspect commits and code owners, and adds tracing, logs, session replay and cron and uptime checks under one quota-based bill, with a free plan for one developer. Honeybadger is the simplest choice for small teams that also want uptime monitoring and a public status page without a second vendor. Rollbar has the lowest paid entry price and never charges per seat. BugSnag stands out for mobile teams with its stability scores and release health views. Datadog Error Tracking makes sense when your traces, logs and RUM already live in Datadog. Raygun and Airbrake are straightforward volume-priced trackers, AppSignal fits Ruby, Elixir and Node.js teams that want APM and errors in one plan, and LogRocket fits frontend teams that need the session replay behind each error.

The short answer

Sentry is the best error tracking tool for engineering teams catching production errors in 2026, because its Team plan at $26 per month billed annually covers unlimited users and 50,000 errors with tracing, logs and session replay in the same account; Honeybadger suits small teams that want errors, uptime checks and a status page for the same $26 a month. Rollbar Essentials is the cheapest paid plan at $9 per month for 10,000 occurrences, and Sentry, Honeybadger, Rollbar, BugSnag, LogRocket and AppSignal all have free plans, as of November 2026. Teams already paying for Datadog APM should look at Datadog Error Tracking instead, and frontend teams that need to watch the user session behind each error should look at LogRocket.

This list is for engineering teams that want to know about a production exception before a customer reports it: backend, web and mobile developers, on-call engineers and the leads who pick the tooling. It covers dedicated error trackers (Sentry, Rollbar, BugSnag, Honeybadger, Raygun and Airbrake), error tracking inside broader monitoring platforms (Datadog Error Tracking and AppSignal) and a session replay product with built-in error monitoring (LogRocket). We compared documented features and published prices from each vendor's own pages; we did not run hands-on tests. Scores weigh features at 40 percent, ease of use at 30 and value at 30, and the overall score is the weighted average. Highlight.io was considered, but its site now redirects to LaunchDarkly, so it was left out. AppSignal shows prices in euros from our location, so its USD price is marked as pending.

The ranking at a glance

  1. 1SentryEngineering teams that want errors, traces and replays in one tool9.1
  2. 2HoneybadgerSmall engineering teams that want errors and uptime in one bill8.9
  3. 3RollbarTeams that want the cheapest paid error tracker with no seat fees8.8
  4. 4BugSnagMobile app teams that track stability across releases8.6
  5. 5Datadog Error TrackingTeams already running Datadog APM or RUM8.4
  6. 6RaygunTeams with high error volumes that want simple per-block pricing8.3
  7. 7AppSignalRuby, Elixir and Node.js teams that want APM and errors in one plan8.2
  8. 8LogRocketFrontend teams that want to watch the session behind each error8.1
  9. 9AirbrakeSolo developers and small teams that want a simple error quota8.0

How we scored

Every product gets the same three scores out of 10. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not run hands-on tests.

  • 40%Features
  • 30%Ease of use
  • 30%Value

Full scoring method

  1. No. 1, our pick

    Sentry

    Application monitoring platform built around error tracking, with tracing, logs, session replay, profiling and cron and uptime checks.

    9.1of 10

    Best for Engineering teams that want errors, traces and replays in one tool

    Features
    9.4
    Ease of use
    8.8
    Value
    9.0

    Price

    Free Developer plan for one user; Team plan $26 per month billed annually with 50,000 errors

    Quoted from the Sentry pricing page on November 12, 2026: $26/mo When billed annually with default pre-paid data

    Sentry ranks first because it pairs the most complete error workflow on this list with a low entry price. The Team plan costs $26 per month billed annually with default pre-paid data and includes unlimited users, 50,000 errors, 5 million spans, 5GB of logs, 50 session replays, one uptime monitor and one cron monitor. Errors are grouped into issues and enriched with suspect commits, code owners and ownership rules, so an alert lands with the developer who most likely caused it. Release health shows whether a new version raised crash rates, and the Team plan includes 20 custom dashboards. Seer, Sentry's AI debugging agent, can propose root causes and fixes, but it needs its own subscription. Pay-as-you-go errors above the quota start at $0.0003625 each. The weak points are the one-user limit on the free plan and the fact that SAML and SCIM support sit on the $80 Business plan.

    What works

    • +Team and Business plans include unlimited users
    • +Free Developer plan covers 5,000 errors and 5 million spans for one user
    • +Errors, tracing, logs and replay share one SDK and one bill

    What does not

    • −Free plan is limited to one user and email alerts
    • −Seer AI debugging requires an extra subscription
    • −SAML and SCIM single sign-on start on the $80 Business plan
    Free plan
    Yes, 1 user and 5,000 errors
    Errors on Team
    50,000 per month
    Retention
    30-day lookback on Developer, up to 90 days on paid plans

    Visit sentry.io|Read the full Sentry review

  2. No. 2

    Honeybadger

    Error tracking with logging and performance insights, uptime and cron monitoring and public status pages in one account.

    8.9of 10

    Best for Small engineering teams that want errors and uptime in one bill

    Features
    8.6
    Ease of use
    9.2
    Value
    9.1

    Price

    Free Developer plan; Team plan $26 per month or $286 per year

    Quoted from the Honeybadger pricing page on November 12, 2026: Team plans start at $26/month and scale with usage

    Honeybadger takes second place because it covers the first three things a small team needs in production, errors, uptime checks and a status page, at the same $26 entry price as Sentry. The Team plan includes unlimited users and projects, 50,000 errors a month with 90 days of retention, 100 MB a day of logging and performance data through Honeybadger Insights, five uptime monitors and one status page. Cron jobs and background tasks can report check-ins, so a job that silently stops running raises an alert. Premium integrations such as Jira, PagerDuty, SMS and webhooks start on Team, while the free Developer plan covers GitHub, Slack and email. Paying yearly drops Team to $286. The trade-offs are a narrower feature set than Sentry for tracing and replay, and a free plan that keeps errors for only 15 days and allows one user.

    What works

    • +Free Developer plan includes 5,000 errors, one uptime monitor and a status page
    • +Unlimited users and projects on the $26 Team plan
    • +Annual billing lowers Team to $286 a year

    What does not

    • −Free plan keeps error data for only 15 days
    • −Free plan is limited to one user
    • −Insights retention and alarms are capped on Team
    Free plan
    Yes, 5,000 errors per month, 1 user
    Errors on Team
    50,000 per month
    Retention on Team
    90 days

    Visit honeybadger.io|Read the full Honeybadger review

  3. No. 3

    Rollbar

    Error monitoring with real-time feeds, intelligent grouping, deploy tracking and session replay, priced by occurrences rather than seats.

    8.8of 10

    Best for Teams that want the cheapest paid error tracker with no seat fees

    Features
    8.5
    Ease of use
    8.7
    Value
    9.2

    Price

    Free plan with 5,000 occurrences; Essentials from $9 per month for 10,000 occurrences

    Quoted from the Rollbar pricing page on November 12, 2026: Essentials: from $9/month at 10,000 occurrences/month

    Rollbar ranks third on value: its Essentials plan starts at $9 a month for 10,000 occurrences, or $7.50 a month billed annually, the lowest paid entry on this list, and no plan charges per seat. Every tier includes unlimited projects and users, SDKs for server, client and mobile platforms, a REST API and a Terraform provider. The core workflow is a real-time error feed with intelligent grouping, stack traces, telemetry and deploy tracking, and 1,000 session replays a month are included even on the free plan. Essentials adds 90-day retention, fine-grained rate limiting and 4,000 AI credits a month. Advanced, from $13 a month, adds adaptive alerts, SCIM, 180-day retention and Rollbar Analyze for custom queries. The catch is that prices climb in steps with volume, so a noisy app at 1 million occurrences pays $199 a month on Essentials.

    What works

    • +Rollbar never charges per seat, and every plan has unlimited users
    • +Essentials costs $9 a month, or $7.50 a month billed annually
    • +14-day trial unlocks the full Advanced feature set

    What does not

    • −Rollbar Analyze (RQL and Metrics API) is a paid add-on on Essentials
    • −Adaptive alerts and SCIM need the Advanced plan
    • −Free plan keeps data for 30 days
    Free plan
    Yes, 5,000 occurrences and 1,000 replays per month
    Retention
    30 days Free, 90 days Essentials, 180 days Advanced
    Seats
    Unlimited users on all plans

    Visit rollbar.com|Read the full Rollbar review

  4. No. 4

    BugSnag

    Error and performance monitoring for mobile, web, desktop and server apps, with stability scores and release health.

    8.6of 10

    Best for Mobile app teams that track stability across releases

    Features
    8.7
    Ease of use
    8.5
    Value
    8.6

    Price

    Free plan for one user; Select plan from $20 per month

    Quoted from the BugSnag pricing page on November 12, 2026: STARTING AT $20 /month

    BugSnag ranks fourth and is the strongest pick here for mobile apps. It supports more than 50 platforms and focuses on application stability: a Stability Center shows a 30-day stability score and trend for each app, release monitoring compares the health of each version, and stability targets give teams a threshold for promoting or pulling a release. Crashes arrive with symbolicated stack traces from uploaded source maps, dSYMs and ProGuard mappings, plus breadcrumbs of the user actions that led to them. The free plan includes one user, 7,500 events and 1 million spans a month. Select starts at $20 a month and adds unlimited users, while Preferred, from $33, adds automatic error prioritization, advanced segmentation and SAML single sign-on. Automatic error assignment, on-premises deployment and feature flag dashboards sit on Enterprise, so larger teams may need a sales conversation.

    What works

    • +Free plan includes 7,500 events and 1 million spans a month
    • +Select plan adds unlimited users
    • +Available through AWS Marketplace billing

    What does not

    • −Free plan is limited to one user
    • −SAML single sign-on and system metrics need the Preferred plan
    • −Automatic error assignment is reserved for Enterprise
    Free plan
    Yes, 1 user, 7,500 events and 1M spans per month
    Platforms
    50+
    Integrations
    30+ third-party integrations

    Visit bugsnag.com|Read the full BugSnag review

  5. No. 5

    Datadog Error Tracking

    Error grouping and triage inside the Datadog observability platform, linked to APM traces, RUM sessions and logs.

    8.4of 10

    Best for Teams already running Datadog APM or RUM

    Features
    9.0
    Ease of use
    7.8
    Value
    8.2

    Price

    From $25 per month billed annually for under 50,000 errors, or $36 on demand

    Quoted from the Datadog Error Tracking pricing page on November 12, 2026: Monthly error volumes below 50k errors will be billed at the flat rate of $ 25 per month or $ 36 on-demand.

    Datadog Error Tracking scores high on features because it groups exceptions from every Datadog signal, APM traces, RUM sessions, standalone frontend errors and logs, into issues with debug context, then lets engineers jump to the related trace or user session in one click. Watchdog Insights flags anomalous tags, custom monitors alert on new issues, and issues can be triaged in Datadog Case Management and Incident Management. Pricing is simple at the low end: volumes below 50,000 errors a month cost a flat $25 billed annually or $36 on demand, and per-1,000 rates fall as volume grows. Error Tracking is included at no extra cost for errors from APM traces and RUM events, which is why it suits teams already paying for those products. Ease of use and value score lower because a team starting from zero has to learn a large platform and budget for several Datadog products to get the full picture.

    What works

    • +Error Tracking is included for APM traces and RUM events at no additional cost
    • +Errors correlate with related RUM sessions and distributed traces
    • +Volume tiers drop to $0.17 per 1,000 errors at higher volumes on annual billing

    What does not

    • −No permanent free plan
    • −Pricing spreads across several Datadog products
    • −Most useful when the rest of your telemetry is already in Datadog
    Entry price
    $25 per month billed annually below 50,000 errors
    Overage
    $0.25 per 1,000 errors from 50k to 100k, annual
    Included with
    APM traces and RUM events

    Visit datadoghq.com|Read the full Datadog Error Tracking review

  6. No. 6

    Raygun

    Crash reporting, real user monitoring and APM sold as separate products, with crash reporting priced per block of errors.

    8.3of 10

    Best for Teams with high error volumes that want simple per-block pricing

    Features
    8.4
    Ease of use
    8.3
    Value
    8.0

    Price

    Crash Reporting Basic $40 per 100,000 errors per month billed annually, or $60 monthly

    Quoted from the Raygun pricing page on November 12, 2026: Basic $ 40 Per 100,000 errors/mo* $ 60 Per 100,000 errors/mo*

    Raygun suits teams that send a lot of errors and want a predictable bill. Crash Reporting Basic costs $40 per 100,000 errors a month billed annually, or $60 monthly, and extra errors are charged on demand at $0.001 each. Every plan includes unlimited apps, members and customer records, spike protection, deployment tracking, symbols support for readable stack traces, advanced search with custom tags, an audit log and the Raygun API. AI Error Resolution suggests likely root causes and fixes. The Team plan, at $80 per 200,000 errors billed annually, adds inbound filters, unlimited custom dashboards, user roles and third-party integrations including Slack, Teams, GitHub and Jira. That last point is the main drawback of Basic: alerts reach email, Slack or Teams, but issue tracker integrations wait for Team. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial.

    What works

    • +Basic includes 100,000 errors a month, more than most entry plans
    • +Extra errors cost $0.001 each on demand
    • +Audit log and Raygun API included on Basic

    What does not

    • −No permanent free plan
    • −Third-party integrations such as Slack, Jira and GitHub start on the $80 Team plan
    • −Real user monitoring and APM are billed as separate products
    Entry plan
    Basic, 100,000 errors per month
    Free trial
    14 days
    Overage
    $0.001 per error on demand

    Visit raygun.com|Read the full Raygun review

  7. No. 7

    AppSignal

    All-in-one application monitoring with error tracking, performance monitoring, host metrics, uptime checks and logging.

    8.2of 10

    Best for Ruby, Elixir and Node.js teams that want APM and errors in one plan

    Features
    8.1
    Ease of use
    8.6
    Value
    8.0

    Price

    See vendor pricing (USD check pending); permanent free plan with 30K requests

    US price check pending. See the AppSignal pricing page.

    AppSignal earns its place by bundling error tracking with a full APM toolkit under one plan. Errors come with debugging reports, real-time alerts, charts and custom tags, and can be sent to an issue tracker. The same account covers performance monitoring with slow query and N+1 query detection and memory leak detection, host metrics, metric dashboards, uptime checks from four locations with a free public status page, and check-ins for cron jobs. Every plan includes unlimited users, teams, applications and dashboards, and the free plan covers 30K requests, 1GB of logging and 5-day retention. AppSignal prices paid plans by request volume rather than error count, which suits steady web apps but takes some arithmetic to compare with event-priced trackers. From our location the pricing page shows euros only, so we have not listed a USD price.

    What works

    • +Every plan includes unlimited users, teams, applications and dashboards
    • +Permanent free plan with 30K requests and 1GB of logging
    • +30-day free trial with no credit card needed

    What does not

    • −Free plan keeps data for only 5 days
    • −Pricing is by requests, which is harder to map to error volume
    • −SAML SSO and HIPAA compliance are separate business features
    Free plan
    Yes, 30K requests, 1GB logging, 5-day retention
    Users
    Unlimited on all plans
    Uptime checks
    Pinged from four locations

    Visit appsignal.com|Read the full AppSignal review

  8. No. 8

    LogRocket

    Session replay, product analytics and error monitoring for web and mobile apps, priced by captured sessions.

    8.1of 10

    Best for Frontend teams that want to watch the session behind each error

    Features
    8.6
    Ease of use
    8.2
    Value
    7.4

    Price

    Free plan with 1,000 sessions; Core from $83 per month billed annually for 10,000 sessions

    Quoted from the LogRocket pricing page on November 12, 2026: Core starts at $83 a month for 10,000 sessions.

    LogRocket approaches error tracking from the user's side. Every plan combines session replay, product analytics and error monitoring, and error events, analytics events, logs and network data are unlimited, because LogRocket bills by captured sessions instead. That means a frontend error comes with a replay of what the user clicked and saw, which is often the fastest way to reproduce a UI bug. The free plan includes 1,000 sessions a month. Core starts at $83 a month billed annually for 10,000 sessions, and Pro, from $292 a month, adds LogRocket Galileo AI features such as issue summaries, anomaly detection and MCP and API access. Value scores lower because the entry price is the highest here and costs grow with traffic rather than errors. Backend services without a browser or app session get little from it, so most teams pair it with a server-side tracker.

    What works

    • +Error events are unlimited, so error storms do not raise the bill
    • +Free plan includes 1,000 sessions a month
    • +Each error comes with the user session that produced it

    What does not

    • −Core starts at $83 a month, the highest entry price on this list
    • −Galileo AI features require Pro, from $292 a month
    • −Focused on frontend and mobile; backend errors are better served elsewhere
    Free plan
    Yes, 1,000 sessions per month
    Billing unit
    Captured sessions
    Error events
    Unlimited on every plan

    Visit logrocket.com|Read the full LogRocket review

  9. No. 9

    Airbrake

    Error and performance monitoring with usage-based tiers, deploy tracking and unlimited integrations.

    8.0of 10

    Best for Solo developers and small teams that want a simple error quota

    Features
    7.6
    Ease of use
    8.4
    Value
    8.0

    Price

    From $19 per month for 25,000 errors, or $17 per month billed yearly

    Quoted from the Airbrake pricing page on November 12, 2026: Monthly pricing plans start at $19/month for 25,000 errors.

    Airbrake keeps error tracking simple. Monthly plans start at $19 for 25,000 errors, or $17 a month billed yearly, and step up through five tiers to $799 a month for 5 million errors. Each plan includes error and performance monitoring, unlimited projects and integrations, deploy tracking, an account dashboard and advanced search filters, and Airbrake warns you as your monthly quota reaches set thresholds. On-demand errors beyond the quota cost $5 per 10,000. The Dev plan is limited to one user and one team, Basic adds unlimited users and three teams, and Pro adds unlimited teams, audit logs and spike forgiveness. The free trial unlocks unlimited errors and performance events, but it requires a credit card and there is no permanent free plan. Airbrake has fewer advanced features than the leaders, such as replay, release health or AI triage, which is why it ranks last here.

    What works

    • +Free trial includes unlimited errors and performance events
    • +Five clear tiers from 25,000 to 5 million errors
    • +Automatic alerts as the monthly error quota fills up

    What does not

    • −No permanent free plan, and the trial requires a credit card
    • −Dev plan is limited to one user
    • −30 days of data retention on the published plans
    Entry tier
    $19 per month for 25,000 errors
    Users on Dev
    1
    On-demand errors
    $5.00 per 10K

    Visit airbrake.io|Read the full Airbrake review

Before you choose

Price by error volume, not seats

Almost every tool here bills by monthly events. Sentry Team includes 50,000 errors, Honeybadger Team 50,000 errors, Rollbar Essentials starts at 10,000 occurrences, Raygun Basic covers 100,000 errors and Airbrake's first tier covers 25,000 errors. Count how many errors your apps send in a bad week, not a quiet one, and check the overage rate: Raygun charges $0.001 per extra error and Airbrake $5 per 10,000 on-demand errors.

Protect yourself from error storms

One broken deploy can send millions of identical errors and burn a monthly quota in an hour. Look for rate limits, inbound filters and spend caps. Rollbar offers fine-grained rate limiting and overage budgets, Raygun has spike protection, Airbrake Pro includes spike forgiveness and Sentry lets you set a maximum spend threshold.

Check the context you get with each error

A stack trace alone rarely explains a bug. Compare breadcrumbs, release tracking, source map and dSYM support, custom metadata and links to the commit that likely caused the problem. Sentry shows suspect commits, BugSnag records user interaction breadcrumbs, and LogRocket attaches a session replay to the error.

Decide how much of your monitoring should live in one place

Some teams want only error tracking. Others want errors next to traces, logs and uptime checks so one alert leads to the full picture. Sentry, Honeybadger, AppSignal and Datadog bundle several of these, while Rollbar, Raygun and Airbrake focus on errors and sell other products separately.

Check retention and access controls

Free plans keep data for a short time: 15 days on Honeybadger Developer, 30 days on Rollbar Free and 5 days on AppSignal Free. Paid plans run from 90 to 180 days. If you need SAML single sign-on, SCIM or a HIPAA agreement, check which tier includes it before you compare prices.

Questions readers ask

What is the best error tracking tool in 2026?
Sentry is the best error tracking tool for most engineering teams in 2026. Its Team plan costs $26 per month billed annually and includes unlimited users, 50,000 errors and 5 million spans, according to sentry.io. Honeybadger ranks second for small teams that also want uptime monitors and a status page.
Is there a free error tracking tool?
Yes. Sentry, Honeybadger, Rollbar, BugSnag, LogRocket and AppSignal all have permanent free plans. Rollbar Free includes 5,000 occurrences and 1,000 session replays a month with unlimited users, while the free plans from Sentry, Honeybadger and BugSnag are limited to one user.
What is the cheapest paid error tracking tool?
Rollbar is the cheapest, with Essentials from $9 per month for 10,000 occurrences, or $7.50 per month billed annually. Airbrake starts at $19 per month for 25,000 errors, and BugSnag Select starts at $20 per month.
Is Sentry better than Rollbar?
Sentry is better for teams that want errors, tracing, logs and session replay in one tool. Its $26 Team plan includes 50,000 errors and 5 million spans. Rollbar is better for teams that want the lowest price and no seat fees, starting at $9 per month for 10,000 occurrences.
How much does Datadog Error Tracking cost?
Datadog Error Tracking costs a flat $25 per month billed annually, or $36 on demand, for fewer than 50,000 errors a month. Above that, Datadog charges per 1,000 errors, starting at $0.25 on annual billing, and Error Tracking is included at no extra cost for errors from APM traces and RUM events.
What is the difference between error tracking and logging?
Error tracking groups each exception into an issue with a stack trace and alerts the right person, while logging stores every event your app writes. Tools like Sentry, Honeybadger and Datadog now offer both, so you can open the related logs from an error.
Which error tracking tool is best for mobile apps?
BugSnag is the best error tracking tool for mobile apps. It supports more than 50 platforms, symbolicates crashes from dSYMs and ProGuard mappings, and shows a 30-day stability score for each app. Sentry is a strong alternative with release health tracking and mobile crash reporting.

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