Alternatives to Raygun
Error, crash, and real user monitoring platform.
Raygun ranks #7 of 7 in Error monitoring, with an Alt Score of 66. It is proprietary, sold by subscription from $40/month (USD, billed annually) and available on the web. 13 of 13 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
Raygun provides error and crash reporting alongside application performance monitoring and real user monitoring.
Raygun is built for engineering and product teams shipping web and mobile applications who need to catch, group, and resolve production errors, and to monitor front-end (RUM) and server-side (APM) performance from a single hosted dashboard.
A proprietary SaaS platform combining Crash Reporting (automatic error grouping, stack traces, source maps, breadcrumbs), Real User Monitoring (front-end performance, session and user metrics), and Application Performance Monitoring (server-side traces and issues), plus deployment tracking and integrations with Slack, PagerDuty, Jira, and GitHub.
Lightweight SDKs/providers for many languages (JavaScript, .NET, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, iOS, Android, and more) are added to an application to capture errors, sessions, and performance traces, which are sent to Raygun's hosted AWS-based backend where they are grouped, correlated with deployments, and surfaced in the web dashboard with alerting and issue-tracker integrations.
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Ranked alternatives
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Sentry is an application monitoring platform for error tracking, performance tracing, and session replay across many languages and frameworks; open source with a hosted cloud.
BugSnag is an error monitoring and application stability platform that captures crashes and errors with diagnostics and stability scores; now part of SmartBear.
GlitchTip is an open-source error tracking platform compatible with Sentry SDKs, with uptime monitoring; self-hostable or hosted.
Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool combining error tracking, uptime monitoring, and cron/check-in monitoring.
Rollbar is a real-time error monitoring platform with automatic grouping, deploy tracking, and workflow integrations across many languages.
Feature comparison
Rows come from the Error monitoring checklist (17 rows). Human-verified cells only. ? means the value has not been verified.
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Every fact and feature listed for Raygun is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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License Proprietary verified 2026-07-17
Raygun's Crash Reporting, RUM and APM platform is closed-source, fully-hosted commercial SaaS run from Raygun's own AWS infrastructure. Its client-side SDKs/providers (e.g. raygun4net, raygun4js) are
All Raygun data is stored in the US-EAST-1 region of the AWS Datacenter.
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Pricing model Subscription verified 2026-07-17
No permanent free tier exists — only a time-limited 14-day trial, after which a paid plan (Basic/Team/Business/Enterprise, billed monthly or annually) is required.
Our free trial gives you unlimited monitoring for 14 days, no credit card required.
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Starts at $40/month (USD, billed annually) verified 2026-07-17
Cheapest paid tier is Crash Reporting Basic: $40/mo billed annually or $60/mo billed monthly, for 100,000 errors/mo. All pricing on the page is confirmed USD.
Basic $ 40 Per 100,000 errors/mo* $ 60 Per 100,000 errors/mo* Free 14 day trial
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Platforms Web verified 2026-07-17
Raygun's Crash Reporting/RUM/APM product is accessed via a web dashboard (SaaS); SDKs instrument apps across many client languages/platforms (JS, .NET, Java, iOS, Android, etc.) but the product itself
Ship better quality software, faster
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Status active verified 2026-07-17
Docs site footer shows current-year copyright (2026); pricing, trial signup, and documentation are all live and current, and the platform still ships newer features like AI Error Resolution.
© Raygun 2026
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Open source No verified 2026-07-17
Raygun is a closed, commercial SaaS platform run from Raygun's own infrastructure; no source code for the platform is published.
All Raygun data is stored in the US-EAST-1 region of the AWS Datacenter.
https://raygun.com/security -
Self-hostable No verified 2026-07-17
Raygun operates only as a single-region hosted SaaS; there is no self-hosted/on-premise deployment option documented.
All Raygun data is stored in the US-EAST-1 region of the AWS Datacenter.
https://raygun.com/security -
Error grouping / deduplication Yes verified 2026-07-17
Raygun groups errors to help you maintain a manageable list of bugs, so you can identify and prioritize issues effectively. By using a combination of grouping hashers, Raygun reads specific parts of a
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Source maps / stack traces Yes verified 2026-07-17
Source Maps help to convert minified JavaScript code back into source code. Raygun uses them to take un-readable errors generated from minified JavaScript and translate them to be readable
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Release tracking Yes verified 2026-07-17
Raygun Deployment Tracking is designed to alert you to issues from problematic releases. Deployment Tracking allows for a correlation of error groups with your deployment versions, making it possible
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Session replay No verified 2026-07-17
Raygun RUM exposes per-session metrics, user journey and page-level diagnostics (see also the 'Session instance' doc page), but no page in docs or on the platform describes DOM/video session recording
See individual user sessions with instance-level diagnostics of every page request
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Performance / APM Yes verified 2026-07-17
Raygun APM is a dedicated product offering server-side performance monitoring, traces, and issues (see /documentation/product-guides/apm/).
Raygun - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tool
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Alerting integrations (Slack/PagerDuty) Yes verified 2026-07-17
PagerDuty integration is also documented (Team plan or higher): 'PagerDuty integrates with monitoring systems to intelligently route actionable incidents to the right team for real-time response.' (ht
Slack is a cloud-based set of team collaboration tools and services that integrates with Raygun to send error group alerts to the Slack channel of your choice.
https://raygun.com/documentation/product-guides/crash-reporting/integrations/slack/ -
Issue-tracker integration (Jira/GitHub) Yes verified 2026-07-17
Jira OAuth integration is also documented (Team plan or higher): 'This integration will allow you to link a Raygun error group to a new or existing Jira issue.' (https://raygun.com/documentation/produ
GitHub is a source code hosting and issue tracking service. You can easily connect Raygun error groups to GitHub issues.
https://raygun.com/documentation/product-guides/crash-reporting/integrations/github/ -
SDK language coverage Yes verified 2026-07-17
Documented SDKs/providers span 18+ languages and platforms: Adobe AIR, Android, iOS/Apple, C++, ColdFusion, Elixir, Fluentd, Flutter, Go, JavaScript (+ Angular/React/Vue/Ember/Next/Nuxt/Svelte/Ionic),
Language Guides Overview Adobe Crash Reporting Installation Android Crash Reporting .NET for Android ... Apple Crash Reporting ... C++ Crash Reporting ... Coldfusion ... Elixir ... Fluentd ... Flutter
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User / breadcrumb context Yes verified 2026-07-17
Breadcrumbs captures the trail of events leading up to an error or crash which helps to easily replicate the path a user took. By knowing the steps taken to throw the error, debugging can be reduced t
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Data retention (free) No verified 2026-07-17
Raygun has no permanent free tier with its own data-retention allowance — only a 14-day trial, after which data/access requires a paid plan. Paid-plan retention (e.g. 180 days for errors) is documente
Our free trial gives you unlimited monitoring for 14 days, no credit card required.
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Free tier event limit No verified 2026-07-17
Raygun offers only a 14-day free trial with unlimited monitoring during the trial window, not an ongoing free tier with a fixed event quota; the cheapest tier with an ongoing published quota is the pa
Plans to fit every team Free trial. Flexible plans.
https://raygun.com/pricing
FAQ
Yes. Sentry, BugSnag and Honeybadger have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
Sentry, GlitchTip and Rollbar — every license claim links its source.