Sentry
Free / Team from ~$26 per mo
Datadog
Usage-based (modular per-product)
Sentry is developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring with deep code context. Datadog is a broad observability platform spanning infrastructure, logs, metrics, and APM. Sentry wins on focused, code-level error tracking; Datadog wins on full-stack observability breadth.
Pick Sentry if you want focused, developer-first error and performance tracking tied closely to your code and releases.
Pick Datadog if you want broad, full-stack observability across infrastructure, logs, metrics, and APM in one platform.
Sentry and Datadog both help you understand what your software is doing in production, but they operate at different scopes. Sentry is developer-first and laser-focused on catching errors and performance issues, with deep code-level context, stack traces, and release tracking that make it easy to find and fix the exact line causing a problem. Datadog is a broad observability platform covering infrastructure metrics, logs, APM, real-user monitoring, security, and much more, aimed at giving ops and platform teams a full-stack view.
On price, Sentry has a free tier and Team plans from around $26 a month, while Datadog uses modular, usage-based pricing per product that can grow significantly. The choice is mostly focused, code-level error tracking (Sentry) versus full-stack observability across your whole system (Datadog).
We compare error tracking, observability breadth, pricing, and scope.
| Quick facts | Sentry | Datadog |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Error & performance tracking | Full-stack observability |
| Free tier | Yes | Limited |
| Starting price | Team from ~$26/mo | Usage-based (modular) |
| Breadth (infra, logs, APM) | Focused | Best-in-class |
| Best for | Developer error tracking | Full-stack monitoring |
Each row reflects the feature on each product's current public release.
| Feature | S Sentry | D Datadog |
|---|---|---|
| Error / crash tracking | Best-in-class | Good |
| Code-level context & traces | Best-in-class | Strong |
| Performance / APM | Strong | Best-in-class |
| Infrastructure metrics | Limited | Best-in-class |
| Log management | Limited | Best-in-class |
| Real-user & synthetic monitoring | Good | Best-in-class |
| Developer-friendly setup | Best-in-class | Good |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
Pricing and features change often. Always verify the current details on each product's official site. Last reviewed 2026-06-26.
Things neither product's marketing page leads with.
Sentry is excellent and affordable for catching and fixing code errors, but it is not a full infrastructure observability suite.
Datadog covers everything across the stack, but its modular usage-based pricing can get expensive and complex.
Many teams use both: Sentry for code-level errors and Datadog for full-stack observability.
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