The Canyon ReviewError tracking, ranked by signal per dollar
Sentry, Honeybadger, Rollbar, Bugsnag and GlitchTip ranked for a small team that wants stack traces, not a data platform.
Sentry wins on capability, Honeybadger wins on temperament, and GlitchTip wins on invoice. For a team of five that wants to know when production breaks and roughly where, we'd take Honeybadger and bank the difference. Verdict delivered; scoring below.
Criteria: price at 100k events/month 40%, noise controls (grouping, rate limits, spike protection) 30%, framework coverage 20%, exit cost 10%. List prices, as of April 2026.
The table
| Rank | Tool | ~100k events/mo | The character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honeybadger | ~$39 | calm, flat pricing, does errors |
| 2 | Sentry | ~$26 + add-ons | brilliant, busy, upsells tracing |
| 3 | GlitchTip | ~$15 or self-host | Sentry-API compatible, spartan |
| 4 | Rollbar | ~$50s | competent, quiet roadmap |
| 5 | Bugsnag | contact-sales gravity | strong mobile story, opaque tiers |
Why temperament beats features here
Error trackers fail socially, not technically: the channel fills with noise, someone mutes it, and three weeks later a customer finds the bug first. So we scored noise controls as heavily as price. Honeybadger's defaults (sane grouping, per-project rate limits) produced the quietest useful feed in our trial month. Sentry can be tuned to match and beyond; the difference is that Sentry ships tuned for a 30-engineer org with an observability budget, and you'll do the untuning.
Sentry's event pricing is genuinely cheap at this volume. The line items that follow (performance units, replays, cron monitoring) are where the invoice grows a personality. None are mandatory. All are adjacent to the button you actually wanted to click.
GlitchTip deserves its rung: it speaks the Sentry SDK protocol, so trying it costs one DSN swap. Self-hosted, it's the cheapest legitimate option on the list for a team that already runs a VM or two, per their docs.
The skip
"Contact sales" pricing for a product in this category is a skip signal at small-team scale. Error tracking at 100k events is a solved, commodity problem with public prices across the market; a quote form means the price depends on how you sound on the phone. Bugsnag stays on the list because the mobile SDKs are genuinely strong, but bring a number from a competitor to the call.