Vigil vs Sentry
Updated · prices checked September 2026
Sentry is the best error tracker available and Vigil does not try to match its depth: no session replay, no profiling, no suspect commits. What Vigil offers is Sentry-SDK compatibility inside a monitoring product: point your existing SDK's DSN at Vigil and get grouped issues with stack traces next to uptime, heartbeats, servers, logs and a private status page, from $19/month flat.
Sentry pricing September 2026
- Developer: free. 1 user, 5k errors, 5M spans, 50 replays, 5 GB logs, 1 uptime monitor, 1 cron monitor, 30-day lookback.
- Team: $26/month. Unlimited users, 50k errors, 5M spans, 50 replays, 5 GB logs (then $0.50/GB), up to 90-day lookback.
- Business: $80/month. Same base quotas as Team, plus additional sampled retention and the Business feature set.
- Uptime monitors: 1 included, then $1.00 per uptime alert. Cron monitors: 1 included, then $0.78 per monitor. Profiling: UI profiling $0.25/hour, continuous profiling $0.0315/hour.
- Enterprise: custom.
Source: as of September 2026, from sentry.io/pricing. Vendors change prices; the Sentry 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 | Sentry | |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | ~ 1 uptime monitor included, then $1.00 per uptime alert |
| 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 | ✕ No host agent or server metrics |
| Logs | ✓ 10k / 250k / 2M / 10M lines included. File and journald shipping, full-text search, live tail, log-alert rules | ✓ 5 GB included, then $0.50/GB |
| 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 | ✓ Distributed tracing (5M spans included) and profiling billed per hour |
| Kubernetes | ✓ 1 cluster on Free and Starter, 5 on Pro, unlimited on Business. DaemonSet manifest; incidents for CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, NotReady, pressure | ✕ No Kubernetes health monitoring |
| 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 | ✓ Frontend performance, Web Vitals and session replay (50 replays included) |
| 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 on Developer, unlimited from Team |
| 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 | ✓ Email, Slack, Teams, Discord, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Jira and webhooks; no native Telegram |
| Self-hosted option | ✓ Full product on your server or air-gapped network, $149/month per instance, one-line installer, signed releases | ✓ Self-hosted edition available; many services to run and upgrade |
| AI incident analysis | ✓ One-click root cause, fix and postmortem draft from the incident's evidence. 5 / 30 / 150 / 1,000 analyses a month | ~ Seer, an AI debugging agent for issues; check their site for current pricing |
| 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 | ✓ Best in class: 5k errors free, 50k on Team and Business, then pay-as-you-go |
| 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 | ~ 1 cron monitor included, then $0.78 per monitor |
| Small team: 3 servers, 50 monitors, 5 people | ✓ $19/month on Starter (3 servers, 50 monitors, unlimited team members included) | Team $26/month covers errors for everyone; 50 uptime monitors add about $49. Servers and status pages are not available |
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 Sentry does well
- The deepest error tracking there is: SDKs for nearly every language and framework, source maps, suspect commits, ownership rules, release health.
- Session replay, performance tracing, profiling and logs linked to each error.
- Unlimited users from the $26 Team plan.
- A self-hosted edition exists for teams that want the full product on their own servers, though it is a large multi-service stack to operate.
Where Vigil is ahead
Limits of Sentry that Vigil does not have:
- Uptime is an add-on ($1 per uptime alert after the first); 50 monitors adds about $49/month. There are no server metrics, Kubernetes health or customer status pages.
- Cron monitors are billed per monitor ($0.78 after the first) rather than included.
- Event quotas are prepaid; spikes beyond them mean dropped events or pay-as-you-go spend.
- Vigil puts errors next to uptime, heartbeats, servers, logs and a private status page on one flat plan, and takes the same Sentry SDKs.
When to pick Sentry instead
Pick Sentry if error tracking is your main tool and you use its depth: session replay, profiling, performance tracing across many services, suspect commits, code owners and release health. Its SDKs and issue workflow are the reference everyone else, Vigil included, copies.
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 Sentry to Vigil
1. Create a project
In Vigil, open Errors and create a project for each app. Each project gets its own DSN.
2. Swap the DSN
Replace the Sentry DSN in your SDK config (usually one environment variable). Keep the same SDK, release names and environments; issues start grouping on the first event.
3. Add the rest
Set alert channels (Telegram, Slack, Discord, email, webhooks), add uptime and heartbeat monitors for the same app, and put them on a status page.
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 I use my existing Sentry SDK with Vigil?
Yes. Create a project in Vigil (/app/errors) and put its DSN in your SDK's init call. Vigil accepts the Sentry envelope and store endpoints, gzip and browser CORS, so any official Sentry SDK works without code changes.
What does Sentry do that Vigil does not?
Session replay, profiling, deep distributed tracing across many languages, suspect commits, code owners, source-map management at Sentry's level and a far larger integration catalogue. Vigil groups issues with stack traces, breadcrumbs, users and releases, and alerts on new issues, regressions and spikes.
How many errors does Vigil accept?
1,000 events a day on Free, 20,000 on Starter ($19), 200,000 on Pro ($49) and 2 million on Business ($149), with 1 / 3 / 15 / 100 projects. Add-on packs of +100k events a day cost $5. There is no overage bill.
Can I run both?
Yes. Many SDKs can only send to one DSN at a time, so the simplest split is by project: keep your main app on Sentry and send smaller services, workers or side projects to Vigil, while Vigil handles uptime, heartbeats and the status page.
Try Vigil next to Sentry
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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