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Error and crash monitoring · October 2026 Edition

Sentry vs Raygun

Twelve of fourteen models named Sentry first on the direct prompt; zero named Raygun. Sentry was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Raygun by twelve and Sentry carries 76 labels and Raygun 20, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Sentry

endorsed leader

Named in six categories this edition.

Raygun

accepted challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

First-choice share76%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate16%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#5A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels7620A 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 fourteen direct answers. Sentry vs Rollbar · Sentry vs Bugsnag · Sentry vs GlitchTip

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen 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 fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
SentryFirst choices, of fourteen modelsRaygun
Direct120
Paraphrase121
Comparative120
Budget-constrained1102 against Sentry
Scale-constrained401 against Sentry
Negative109 against Sentry · 1 against Raygun
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Sentry and Raygun were named in the same answer forty-five times, of the 303 answers naming Sentry and the 55 naming Raygun. In those answers Raygun took the first choice zero times and Sentry thirty-two.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Sentry and Raygun stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Sentry Raygun first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Sentry on the left and Raygun on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Sentry first, Raygun an alternative

12 of 14 modelsRaygun was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Sentry alternatives: Honeybadger, Rollbar
GPT-5.4 miniSentry alternatives: Bugsnag, Rollbar
Gemini 3.5 FlashSentry alternatives: LogRocket, Raygun, Rollbar
Perplexity SonarSentry alternatives: Better Stack, GlitchTip, Honeybadger
Grok 4.1 FastSentry alternatives: Bugsnag, Rollbar
DeepSeek V4 FlashSentry alternatives: Bugsnag, New Relic Errors Inbox, Rollbar
Qwen 3.7 FlashSentry alternatives: Bugsnag, Datadog Error Tracking, Honeybadger
Kimi K2Sentry alternatives: Bugsnag, Honeybadger, Rollbar
GLM 4.7 FlashXSentry alternatives: Bugsnag, LogRocket, Rollbar
MiniMax M2.5Sentry alternatives: Bugsnag, Datadog Error Tracking, Rollbar
GPT-6 LunaSentry alternatives: Datadog Error Tracking, New Relic Errors Inbox
Muse Glimmer 30BRollbar, Sentry alternatives: Datadog Error Tracking, Honeybadger, Scout Monitoring

Neither was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Mistral SmallRollbar, Scout Monitoring
Llama 4 MaverickRollbar alternatives: Bugsnag

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 sixty-nine points.
Sentry69%#1 of 11
Raygun0%#9 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Sentry leads by seventy-five points.
Sentry76%#1 of 11
Raygun2%#5 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Sentry leads by seventy-five points.
Sentry75%#1 of 8
Raygun0%#8 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 seven in this category shown.

“Recent CVE tracking shows active issues in the Sentry stack... That is not a reason to avoid Sentry, but it illustrates why patch velocity... are listed as evaluation criteria” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Sentry, for example, offers configurable scrubbing, but you need to verify the settings and test what actually gets removed” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“you should exercise extreme caution if you plan on self-hosting it... massive, distributed microservices stack” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Sentry: The market leader. Incredibly rich features, massive integration ecosystem, open-source roots (with a self-hosted option), and strong session replay” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Sentry | Overall Gold Standard (Full-Stack & Observability) | Unrivaled SDK support, native Session Replay, and robust security posture.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Sentry remains the default all-around choice for most SaaS product teams and is the market leader for developer-first error tracking” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Raygun

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

“Caution: Niche focus & per-event cost” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“I'd recommend Sentry or Raygun as the best fit.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best For: B2B SaaS companies and product managers who want to prioritize bug fixes based on direct financial and user impact.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · alternative
“When to consider Raygun instead - You want bundled real‑user monitoring (RUM) and APM with crash reporting in one vendor.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · paraphrase prompt · alternative
Also compared

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