Errors, logs, APM and uptime services compared: free tiers and pricing
19 errors, logs, apm and uptime services, each with its free tier and lowest paid price as read from its pricing page.
| Service | Free tier | Lowest paid price | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| AppSignal | Free: 30K requests, 1 GB logging, 5-day retention | From $23.25/mo billed yearly ($279/yr) for 250K requests | 2026-10-23 |
| Axiom | Always free: 1 TB loaded, 100 GB-hours of query, 100 GB storage a month | Team $25/mo plus usage | 2026-10-23 |
| Better Stack | Free for personal projects: 10 monitors, 100,000 exceptions/month, 1 status page | Responder licenses $29/mo each (annual) or $34 monthly | 2026-10-23 |
| BugSnag | Free: 7.5K events and 1M spans per month, 7-day retention | Select $20/mo; Preferred $33/mo | 2026-10-23 |
| Checkly | Hobby: $0/mo | Starter $24/mo; Team $64/mo (billed annually) | 2026-10-23 |
| Cloudflare Developer Platform | 200,000 log events/day, 3-day retention | Paid: 20M events/mo then $0.60 per 1M | 2026-10-23 |
| Datadog | Free: up to 5 hosts, 1-day retention | Pro $15 per host/month billed annually ($18 on demand) | 2026-10-23 |
| Elastic Cloud | Free trial | Standard as low as $99/mo | 2026-10-25 |
| Grafana Cloud | Free forever: 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces per month | Pro: $19/mo platform fee plus usage | 2026-10-23 |
| Honeycomb | Free: up to 20M events and 100M metric data points per month | Pro from $150/mo (50M events) | 2026-10-23 |
| Instatus | Free forever plan | — | 2026-10-23 |
| LaunchDarkly | 10M logs, 10M traces, 5K replays and 5K errors a month | — | 2026-10-23 |
| New Relic | Free: 100 GB data ingest/month and 1 full platform user | $0.40 per GB ingested past 100 GB; core users $49/user | 2026-10-23 |
| PostHog | 100,000 exceptions/month | $0.00037 per exception | 2026-10-23 |
| Raygun | 14-day free trial | Basic $40/mo per 100,000 errors (annual) | 2026-10-23 |
| Rollbar | Free: $0 | — | 2026-10-23 |
| Sentry | Developer: free, 1 user, 5K errors/mo | Team $26/mo billed annually ($29 monthly); Business $80/mo annually ($89 monthly) | 2026-10-23 |
| SigNoz | Self-hosted community edition is free | Teams $49/mo minimum, including $49 of usage | 2026-10-23 |
| UptimeRobot | Free plan | Solo $12/mo yearly ($13 monthly) | 2026-10-23 |

