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Error and crash monitoring · September 2026 Edition

Sentry vs GlitchTip

Ten of twelve models named Sentry first on the direct prompt; zero named GlitchTip. Sentry was named by twelve of the twelve models and GlitchTip by ten and Sentry carries 65 labels and GlitchTip 14, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Sentry

endorsed leader

Named in four categories this edition.

GlitchTip

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share82%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate14%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.
Labels6514A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Sentry reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Rollbar was named alongside these two in eleven of the twelve direct answers. Sentry vs Rollbar · Rollbar vs GlitchTip

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the error and crash monitoring page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
SentryFirst choices, of twelve modelsGlitchTip
Direct100
Paraphrase110
Comparative100
Budget-constrained101
Scale-constrained50
Negative119 against Sentry
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Sentry and GlitchTip stood in it.

Sentry first, GlitchTip not the choice

10 of 12 modelsGlitchTip was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Sentry alternatives: CubeAPM, Rollbar
GPT-5.4 miniSentry alternatives: Bugsnag, Datadog, Rollbar
Gemini 3.5 FlashSentry alternatives: Bugsnag, Datadog, Rollbar
Perplexity SonarSentry alternatives: Better Stack, Rollbar, Scout
Grok 4.1 FastSentry alternatives: Rollbar
DeepSeek V4 FlashSentry alternatives: Datadog Error Tracking, Rollbar
Qwen 3.7 FlashSentry alternatives: Raygun, Rollbar
Kimi K2Sentry alternatives: Bugsnag, LogRocket, Rollbar
GLM 4.7 FlashXSentry alternatives: Better Stack, Bugsnag, Rollbar
MiniMax M2.5Rollbar, Sentry alternatives: Scout Monitoring

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Mistral SmallRollbar, Scout Monitoring alternatives: Sentry

Neither was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Sentry leads by seventy-four points.
Sentry79%#1 of 10
GlitchTip5%#3 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Sentry leads by eighty points.
Sentry82%#1 of 10
GlitchTip2%#3 of 10
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Sentry leads by sixty-two points.
Sentry62%#1 of 8
GlitchTip0%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Sentry

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Avoid Sentry if you require deep Application Performance Monitoring (APM)” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative
“Sentry if you expect noisy error storms and do not want usage-based surprise costs; it is repeatedly described as the default choice, but with explicit warnings about per-event billing.” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative
“Sentry is not ideal for teams that need deep APM with automatic N+1 detection or flat-rate pricing that doesn't scale with error volume.” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · soft negative
“Sentry is the most feature‑rich, open‑source‑friendly platform, offering error tracking, APM, session replay, profiling, and uptime monitoring in one place.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · comparative prompt · first choice
“Sentry | Purpose-built error tracking, broadest language/mobile coverage, great grouping, generous free tier | Event-based pricing can scale up” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Sentry: The gold standard for developer experience. Very strong on source maps and mobile. Pricing can get expensive at very high volumes.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about GlitchTip

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“"We want $0 spend and have a cheap server" | GlitchTip | Point your code to it using Sentry SDKs; absolute control over costs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Look at GlitchTip (an open-source, lightweight alternative compatible with Sentry's SDKs)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
“Open-source Sentry clone, no vendor lock-in... Top for ultra-low budgets avoiding any SaaS fees.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · alternative
Also compared
Sentry vs RollbarRollbar vs GlitchTipThe full error monitoring standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.