Vigil vs BugSnag
Updated · prices checked September 2026
BugSnag is a mature error and stability platform, strongest for mobile apps where stability scores and release health matter. Vigil's error tracking is simpler and uses Sentry's SDKs, but it sits inside a monitoring product with uptime, heartbeats, servers, logs and private status pages from $19/month flat.
BugSnag pricing September 2026
- Free: 1 user, 7.5k events and 1M spans a month, 7-day retention.
- Select: tiered by volume (50k to 3M events, 1M to 150M spans a month), unlimited users, 60-day retention. Price depends on the tier you pick on their page.
- Preferred: tiered by volume (100k to 3M events), unlimited users, 60-day retention, automatic error assignment, feature flags and experiments, a dedicated customer success manager.
- Enterprise: custom, with an on-premises deployment option.
Source: as of September 2026, from bugsnag.com/pricing (paid tiers are chosen by event volume on the page; see their pricing page for the dollar amounts). Vendors change prices; the BugSnag site is authoritative.
Vigil pricing
- Free: 20 monitors at 5-minute checks, 1 server, 1 status page, 3 team members, 7 days of history, Telegram/Slack/Discord alerts. Commercial use allowed. Free forever.
- Starter $19/month: 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals, 3 servers, 3 status pages, unlimited team members, 30 days of history.
- Pro $49/month: 200 monitors at 1-minute intervals, 15 servers, unlimited team members, 10 status pages with custom domain, password and white-label, 2,000,000 log lines, 5 Kubernetes clusters, RUM, 150 AI analyses, 90 days of history.
- Business $149/month: 1,000 monitors, 100 servers, unlimited team members, 10 identity providers (SSO, SAML, SCIM), 10 private locations, 1-year history.
- Every feature, including SSO, SLOs and private locations, is on every plan; the plans differ only in numbers.
- New accounts start on a 14-day Pro trial with no card, then stay on Free unless you choose a plan. Yearly billing gets 2 months free, no overage charges.
- Self-hosted $149/month per instance on your own server or air-gapped network.
- Add-ons on paid plans from $4: +50 monitors ($5), +5 servers ($5), +5 status pages ($4), +1M log lines ($4).
Flat monthly prices, no per-host, per-GB or per-run meters. Full plan matrix.
Feature and price comparison
✓ included · ~ partial or paid add-on · ✕ not offered. Vigil figures are for the $49 Pro plan unless stated.
| Vigil | BugSnag | |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime / API monitors and fastest interval | ✓ 20 Free (5-minute checks) / 50 Starter / 200 Pro / 1,000 Business. 1-minute checks on paid plans, 12 monitor types (Uptime, API check, API flow, Browser check, Heartbeat, TCP port, Domain & DNS, App health, Dependency, Content change, Price / number, Keyword) | ✕ Not offered |
| Servers (infrastructure agent) | ✓ 1 / 3 / 15 / 100 servers included. Single-file agent for Linux and macOS, PowerShell agent for Windows: CPU, memory, disks, network, processes, services, Docker, packages, vulnerabilities, disk forecasts | ~ System metrics on the Preferred plan |
| Logs | ✓ 10k / 250k / 2M / 10M lines included. File and journald shipping, full-text search, live tail, log-alert rules | ✕ Not offered |
| APM / traces | ~ Any OpenTelemetry SDK can send traces, metrics and logs over OTLP; Vigil's own lightweight SDKs cover Python and Node. Endpoints with p95 and Apdex, stored slow traces, slow queries, N+1 detection, service map. Not a full APM suite: no profiling | ✓ Performance monitoring priced by spans |
| Kubernetes | ✓ 1 cluster on Free and Starter, 5 on Pro, unlimited on Business. DaemonSet manifest; incidents for CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, NotReady, pressure | ✕ Not offered |
| Real User Monitoring | ✓ Web Vitals p75, page views, JS errors. 1 site Free, 2 sites / 100k views Starter, 10 sites / 1M views Pro, 50 sites / 10M views Business | ~ Real-user performance for web and mobile apps through spans |
| Status pages: private, custom domain, white-label | ✓ Private by default, password or private-link sharing, custom domain with automatic HTTPS, white-label and custom CSS on every paid plan. 1 / 3 / 10 / 50 pages | ✕ No customer-facing status pages |
| Team seats | ✓ 3 on Free, unlimited on every paid plan. Owner / admin / member / viewer roles | ✓ 1 user free, unlimited on paid plans |
| Alert channels (incl. Telegram) | ✓ Telegram, Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, Matrix, ntfy, Gotify, Pushover, webhooks (HMAC, templates), email, phone push. Tickets to PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira, ServiceNow, Zendesk (1 ticketing channel on Free, more on paid plans). No SMS or phone calls on the hosted service; the self-hosted edition pages by SMS and call through your own Twilio account | ✓ 30+ integrations including Slack, Jira and PagerDuty |
| Self-hosted option | ✓ Full product on your server or air-gapped network, $149/month per instance, one-line installer, signed releases | ~ On-premises on the Enterprise plan |
| AI incident analysis | ✓ One-click root cause, fix and postmortem draft from the incident's evidence. 5 / 30 / 150 / 1,000 analyses a month | ✕ No incident root-cause analysis; check their site for current AI features |
| Error tracking | ✓ Any Sentry SDK works: create a project and point the SDK's DSN at Vigil. Issues grouped by fingerprint with stack traces, breadcrumbs, users and releases; alerts on new issues, regressions and spikes. 1k / 20k / 200k / 2M events a day and 1 / 3 / 15 / 100 projects. No session replay or profiling | ✓ Deep error and stability monitoring for web, backend and mobile; its own SDKs |
| Cron job / heartbeat monitoring | ✓ Heartbeats count as monitors (20 / 50 / 200 / 1,000). Fixed period with grace time or a cron expression with timezone; /start for run time, /fail, /<exit-code>; POSTed job output kept as a log; maximum run time | ✕ Not offered |
| Small team: 3 servers, 50 monitors, 5 people | ✓ $19/month on Starter (3 servers, 50 monitors, unlimited team members included) | Select tier by event volume, see their pricing page. Uptime, servers and status pages need other tools |
Small-team estimate uses public list prices and the cheapest tier that covers 3 servers, 50 monitors at 1-minute intervals and 5 people. Where a vendor meters by run, GB or hour we show the arithmetic so you can redo it with your own numbers.
What BugSnag does well
- Stability scores and release health, especially good for iOS, Android, React Native, Unity and Flutter apps.
- Automatic error prioritisation, segmentation and feature-flag correlation.
- Unlimited users on paid plans and an on-premises option for enterprises.
Where Vigil is ahead
Limits of BugSnag that Vigil does not have:
- Errors and performance only: no uptime checks, cron monitoring, servers, logs or status pages.
- Paid prices are volume-tiered and only shown on their calculator.
- Vigil accepts Sentry SDK events rather than BugSnag's SDKs, so switching means swapping the error SDK in your app.
When to pick BugSnag instead
Pick BugSnag if you ship mobile apps and rely on stability scores, release health and per-platform crash tooling, if you want feature-flag correlation for errors, or if you need an on-premises enterprise deployment.
What Vigil does not do
- Browser checks use a short line-by-line script run in headless Chromium (with screenshots), not full Playwright test code kept in git.
- No SMS or phone-call alerting on the hosted service (the self-hosted edition can page by SMS and call through your own Twilio account); hosted alerts go to chat apps, phone push, email, webhooks and ticketing tools.
- On-call is simple: rotations, overrides, escalation and acknowledgements, without the scheduling depth of PagerDuty or incident.io.
- Vigil's own APM SDKs are Python and Node; other languages send traces through any OpenTelemetry SDK over OTLP. There is no profiling, and it is not a substitute for a full APM suite.
- Checks run from Vigil's servers plus private locations you host; there is no menu of dozens of public regions.
Moving from BugSnag to Vigil
1. Create a project
In Vigil, open Errors and create a project per app to get a Sentry-style DSN.
2. Swap the SDK
Replace the BugSnag notifier with the official Sentry SDK for your platform and set the Vigil DSN, release and environment.
3. Add the rest
Connect alert channels and add uptime, heartbeat and server monitoring for the same services.
Run both side by side during the trial: Vigil's alert ingestion accepts Alertmanager and Grafana-style webhooks, so existing alerts can appear on a Vigil status page while you move over.
Frequently asked
Can Vigil read BugSnag SDK events?
No. Vigil speaks the Sentry protocol, so you switch to a Sentry SDK (official ones exist for every major language and mobile platform) and point it at your Vigil DSN.
Is Vigil good for mobile crash reporting?
It accepts events from Sentry's mobile SDKs and groups them with stack traces, but it has no stability scores or release-health dashboards. For mobile-first teams BugSnag or Sentry is the better choice.
How much error volume does Vigil include?
1,000 events a day on Free, 20,000 on Starter ($19), 200,000 on Pro ($49) and 2 million on Business ($149), with no overage charges.
What else comes with Vigil's plans?
Uptime and API monitors, cron heartbeats, a server agent with logs, Kubernetes health, Web Vitals, private status pages on your domain, unlimited team members on paid plans and AI incident analysis.
Try Vigil next to BugSnag
Start free: every new account gets 14 days of Pro, no card. When the trial ends the account stays on Free (20 monitors) unless you choose a plan, and everything you set up stays.
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