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RealUptime Errors vs Raygun
Raygun's pricing page sells three separately priced product lines: Crash Reporting, Real User Monitoring, and APM. Its entry Crash Reporting plan starts at $60 a month billed monthly, or $40 a month billed annually, for 100,000 errors, and every plan begins with a 14-day free trial rather than a free tier. RealUptime Errors is deliberately narrower: application error tracking only, 10,000 events a month free with no credit card, and a flat monthly price after that. Every number below is read from each product's own published pricing on the date at the bottom.
Free tier
Have
10,000 events a month with 14-day retention, free forever, no credit card
Don’t have
a 14-day free trial on every plan; the pricing page publishes no free tier below the entry plan
Entry paid price for error tracking
Have
$23.99 a month for 100,000 events, or $239.90 a year
Have
Crash Reporting Basic at $60 a month billed monthly, or $40 a month billed annually, for 100,000 errors
What the plan price is the ceiling for
Have
the plan price is the ceiling: Free is a hard cap, and Growth and Scale carry 100,000 and 750,000 events a month
Partial
reserved errors per month, with usage beyond the reservation charged on demand at $0.001 per error, per the pricing page's own footnote
One product or a priced suite
Have
error tracking is one product with one price; uptime checks and the status page are separate products you do not have to buy
Partial
Crash Reporting, Real User Monitoring and APM are three separately priced lines on the same pricing page
APM and real-user monitoring
Don’t have
deliberately out of scope; this product is error tracking, and the flat price depends on that narrowness
Have
both are shipped products with their own priced plans
Mobile crash reporting
Don’t have
the SDKs are JavaScript, Node, Python, Go, PHP and Ruby; no iOS or Android SDK
Have
crash reporting is Raygun's core product and covers mobile platforms
Team seats included in the price
Have
owner, admin and responder roles, with seats included rather than metered
Have
unlimited members and unlimited apps listed on the entry Crash Reporting plan
Retention window published on the pricing page
Have
14 days on Free, 90 on Growth, 180 on Scale
Not published
the pricing page states event volumes and features, not a retention window
Uptime checks and a public status page in the same account
Have
RealUptime Monitor and RealUptime Status share the account, so errors, checks and the public page live together
Don’t have
the pricing page sells crash reporting, real user monitoring and APM; there is no uptime-monitoring or status-page product on it
Prices you may have read on a review site
Third-party "Raygun alternatives" write-ups tend to quote figures from whichever year they were written, and they get recirculated long after Raygun's own pricing has moved. The numbers in the table above are read straight from Raygun's pricing page on the verified-on date below, not from a review site, and the sources list links it so you can check it yourself in the same minute. If the plan you were quoted somewhere else does not match, trust the vendor's page over ours and over theirs.
What one signup covers here
Error tracking is one of four products on this account, which matters when you are comparing a suite price against a single tool. RealUptime Errors is the one this page is about, free for 10,000 events a month. RealUptime Monitor checks your endpoints and servers from outside, free for 10 monitors and 5 servers. RealUptime Status publishes what those checks see. RealUptime Outages is the free public tracker for the vendors you depend on and needs no account at all. One signup provisions the free tier of each, and each ladder is bought on its own if and when you outgrow it.
Is there a free tier?
RealUptime is free to start and never asks for a card. One signup turns on the free rung of every product: 10 monitors with a public status page, 5 server-agent slots, and 10,000 error events a month kept for 14 days. RealUptime Outages is free to read with no account at all.
Raygun: a 14-day free trial on every plan; the pricing page publishes no free tier below the entry plan.
Is it open source or self-hosted?
RealUptime's core is a hosted service and its source is not published, so there is no self-hosted edition of the platform itself. The parts that run on your side are open source at github.com/RealUptimeHQ: the CLI and the RealUptime Errors SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP and Ruby are MIT-licensed, and the Grafana data source is Apache 2.0.
Raygun: a hosted product that publishes no source and no self-hosted edition.
If self-hosting is a hard requirement, these are the options in this category: GlitchTip is MIT-licensed, Sentry publishes and documents a self-hosted edition, and Bugsink is source-available under PolyForm Shield, which is not an OSI open-source license.
Looking for a Raygun alternative?
For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.