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Why Replace Sentry? Sentry's free tier covers 5,000 errors and 10,000 performance events per month. That's generous for side projects, but production applications burn through those limits fast. The Team plan starts at $26/month for 50K errors, scaling to $80/month for 100K and higher. The real issue isn't the base price — it's the unpredictability. A single deployment bug can generate thousands of duplicate errors in minutes, spiking your bill or exhausting your quota right when you need error tracking most. Beyond cost: Data sensitivity — Error reports contain stack traces, request payloads, user data, and environment variables. Sending this to a third-party service raises compliance questions for GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 audits. SDK lock-in — Sentry's SDKs are open-source, but many advanced features (session replays, profiling, custom dashboards) only work with Sentry's cloud. Self-hosted alternatives that accept the same SDKs give you a migration path without rewriting instrumentatio

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