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RealUptime Errors vs Rollbar
Rollbar pairs error tracking with real analytics depth: a SQL-like query language, deploy tracking, client telemetry, and bundled session replay, priced on sliding event volume with a separately metered AI-credits layer on top. RealUptime Errors trades that depth for simplicity: issues, releases, and tags at a flat monthly price with a fixed allowance.
Free tier
Have
10,000 events a month, 14-day retention
Partial
5,000 error events a month on the free plan
Flat, predictable monthly price
Have
$0, $23.99, or $58.99 a month; no metered add-ons
Don’t have
prices slide with event volume, and AI-assisted features are billed through a separately metered credits system, per Rollbar's own pricing explainer
Overage without per-event billing
Have
the free tier is a hard cap; paid tiers offer opt-in metered overage you switch on yourself, never by default
Partial
customer-selected modes: a default stop that drops events past quota, or on-demand per-occurrence billing
Query language, telemetry, and session replay
Don’t have
deliberately out of scope; triage here is issues, releases, and tags
Have
RQL querying, client telemetry breadcrumbs, deploy tracking, and session replay on paid plans
Data scrubbing on by default
Have
SDKs drop authorization headers, cookies, and card- and token-shaped strings before the event leaves your process
Have
default scrub fields (passwords, secrets, auth tokens) documented per SDK
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.
Rollbar: 5,000 error events a month on its free 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.
Rollbar: 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 Rollbar 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.