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RealUptime Errors vs Bugsnag
Bugsnag, sold by SmartBear as part of Insight Hub, is strongest where apps crash on devices: mobile crash reporting with app-stability scores, plus real-user monitoring and distributed tracing, priced on event volume. RealUptime Errors covers web and backend error tracking only, at a flat monthly price. If you ship a native mobile app, Bugsnag is playing a game we are not in; if you do not, you may be paying for that game anyway.
Free tier
Have
10,000 events a month, 14-day retention
Partial
a free tier exists for one collaborator; a trial fronts the paid plans
Flat, predictable monthly price
Have
$0, $23.99, or $58.99 a month; the plan price is the ceiling
Don’t have
priced on monthly event volume; the cost scales with your traffic
Mobile crash reporting
Don’t have
SDKs cover JavaScript, Go, PHP, Python, and Ruby; no mobile SDKs
Have
the product's core strength: native iOS/Android crash reporting with stability scores
Real-user monitoring and distributed tracing
Don’t have
deliberately out of scope; this product is error tracking only
Have
bundled into Insight Hub alongside error monitoring
Data scrubbing on by default
Have
SDKs drop authorization headers, cookies, and card- and token-shaped strings by default; the server applies the same rules again
Partial
redactedKeys filtering ships with defaults per SDK, but broader scrubbing is configuration you set up
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.
Bugsnag: a free tier for one collaborator, with a trial in front of the paid plans.
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.
Bugsnag: 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 Bugsnag 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.