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Datadog vs Sentry

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Datadog and Sentry built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 25 criteria comparedSources last checked

Adoption share

BuiltWith counts — how much more of the web runs Sentry than Datadog, among the sites BuiltWith actually detects. Measured . Source: BuiltWith.

Sentry97.3% · 8,731,349 sites
Datadog2.7% · 238,171 sites

The short answer

Choose Datadog if…

Teams that need one vendor across infrastructure, logs, traces and replay, and can model a bill that has a separate meter for each.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Sentry if…

Teams that want tracing, logs, replays and uptime in one place and will pay per meter for it. The tooling is the deepest in the category and the SDK coverage is the widest.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Datadog: Ingest and indexing are billed separately on the same logs, so $0.10 per GB is not the cost of keeping a log — the indexing charge above it is where the bill actually lands.
  • Sentry: Five meters bill independently, so 50,000 errors is not 50,000 units of observability. A team watching cost needs to watch spans and logs too, not just the error count.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Datadog alternatives · Sentry alternatives

11 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionDatadogSentry
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
Kind of free offerFree trialFree tier
Entry paid plan$15 per host per month for Infrastructure Pro, the entry paid product. Datadog prices per product rather than per plan, so this is one meter of many rather than a platform fee.$26/month for Team, the cheapest paid plan
Pricing modelPer product, not per plan: infrastructure per host, logs split between ingest per GB and indexing per million events, with retention chosen per index and priced accordingly. There is no single Datadog price — this profile follows Log Management, which is the meter comparable to the per-GB platforms in this category.A plan fee plus five independent meters — errors, logs, application metrics, tracing spans and session replays — each with its own included amount and its own overage. Logs and metrics overflow at $0.50/GB; extra uptime alerts at $1.00 each.
Observability
Events included
None included. Log indexing is $1.70 per million events per month at 15-day retention, and Flex Storage is $0.05 per million events stored — ingest and indexing are separate charges on the same logs.
50,000 errors a month on Team and Business; 5,000 on Free. Errors are one meter of several — logs, spans, replays and uptime monitors are counted and billed separately.
Retention windowChosen per index and priced with it: 3, 7, 15 or 30 days, or greater than 30 by arrangement. The $1.70 per million rate is the 15-day tier. Infrastructure metrics retain 1 day on the free plan.30-day lookback on Developer, the free plan. Up to 90 days on Team, and up to 90 days plus additional sampled retention on Business. Enterprise is custom. "Up to" is Sentry's own wording — the 90 days is a ceiling, not a guarantee.
Session replaySupported — Billed separately from RUM, from $2.50 per 1,000 sessions; replays kept 30 days.Supported
Self-hostableLimited — BYOC Logs runs the log engine in your own environment; Datadog hosts the UI, pipeline config and query routing.Limited
Auth
Audit logsDatadog Audit Trail helps customers monitor user and system activity within their organization, including who performed an action, what action was taken, and relevant context about the activity.In the audit log, all of the actions by user and event within the Sentry UI (e.g., member.invite, project.create) are listed chronologically by time and IP address so you’ll always have a view into your organization’s most recent history.
Compliance
SOC 2SOC 2 Type 2 listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications.SOC 2 Type I and Type II certifications; report available via account or on request.
ISO 27001ISO/IEC 27001 listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications, with the certificate a featured downloadable document.ISO 27001 certified; certificate available via account or on request.
HIPAAHIPAA listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications.HIPAA attestation obtained. — Listed as an attestation among compliance certifications, not as a BAA offer.
Encryption at restStored data is protected by encryption, access controls and authentication; integration credentials are encrypted at rest and in transit.All data encrypted at rest; keys managed via a redundant, globally distributed Key Management Service.
Role-based access controlDefault Admin, Standard and Read-Only roles, plus support for custom roles.Role-based access: Billing, Member, Admin, Manager, Organization Owner.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Kind of free offer

Datadog
Free trial
Sentry
Free tier
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “Free Starting At $ 0 Core collection and visualization features 1-day metric retention Up to 5 hosts Start Free Trial”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Sentry ↗

    “Free [...] Error Monitoring 5k errors [...] Logs 5GB [...] Tracing 5M spans [...] Session Replay 50 replays [...] Uptime Monitoring 1 uptime monitor”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Entry paid plan

Datadog
$15 per host per month for Infrastructure Pro, the entry paid product. Datadog prices per product rather than per plan, so this is one meter of many rather than a platform fee.
Sentry
$26/month for Team, the cheapest paid plan
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

Datadog
Per product, not per plan: infrastructure per host, logs split between ingest per GB and indexing per million events, with retention chosen per index and priced accordingly. There is no single Datadog price — this profile follows Log Management, which is the meter comparable to the per-GB platforms in this category.
Sentry
A plan fee plus five independent meters — errors, logs, application metrics, tracing spans and session replays — each with its own included amount and its own overage. Logs and metrics overflow at $0.50/GB; extra uptime alerts at $1.00 each.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “Flex Ingest Starting At $ 0.10 Per ingested or scanned GB [...] Standard Indexing [...] $ 1.70 Per million log events, per month [...] Pro Starting At $ 15 Per host, per month”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Sentry ↗

    “Error Monitoring 5k errors 50k errors [...] Logs 5GB 5GB +$0.50/GB additional [...] Application Metrics 5GB 5GB +$0.50/GB additional [...] Tracing 5M spans [...] Session Replay 50 replays [...] Uptime Monitoring 1 uptime monitor +$1.00/uptime alert additional”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Events included

Datadog

None included. Log indexing is $1.70 per million events per month at 15-day retention, and Flex Storage is $0.05 per million events stored — ingest and indexing are separate charges on the same logs.

Sentry

50,000 errors a month on Team and Business; 5,000 on Free. Errors are one meter of several — logs, spans, replays and uptime monitors are counted and billed separately.

Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “Standard Indexing 15-day retention [...] $ 1.70 Per million log events, per month* [...] Flex Storage Starting At $ 0.05 Per million events stored, per month*”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Sentry ↗

    “Error Monitoring 5k errors 50k errors 50k errors Custom [...] Logs 5GB 5GB +$0.50/GB additional [...] Tracing 5M spans 5M spans 5M spans [...] Session Replay 50 replays 50 replays 50 replays”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Retention window

Datadog
Chosen per index and priced with it: 3, 7, 15 or 30 days, or greater than 30 by arrangement. The $1.70 per million rate is the 15-day tier. Infrastructure metrics retain 1 day on the free plan.
Sentry
30-day lookback on Developer, the free plan. Up to 90 days on Team, and up to 90 days plus additional sampled retention on Business. Enterprise is custom. "Up to" is Sentry's own wording — the 90 days is a ceiling, not a guarantee.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “3-day retention 7-day retention 15-day retention 30-day retention Greater than 30 days $ 1.70 Per million log events, per month* [...] 1-day metric retention”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Sentry ↗

    “Data retention [...] 30-day lookback [...] Up to 90-day lookback [...] Up to 90-day lookback & additional sampled retention [...] Custom”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Audit logs

Datadog
Datadog Audit Trail helps customers monitor user and system activity within their organization, including who performed an action, what action was taken, and relevant context about the activity.
Sentry
In the audit log, all of the actions by user and event within the Sentry UI (e.g., member.invite, project.create) are listed chronologically by time and IP address so you’ll always have a view into your organization’s most recent history.
Sources (2) →
  • Trust Hub | Datadog ↗

    “Datadog Audit Trail helps customers monitor user and system activity within their organization, including who performed an action, what action was taken, and relevant context about the activity.”

    Read 2026-09-21 · official site · Report a correction

  • Security, Privacy, and Compliance Practices | Sentry ↗

    “In the audit log, all of the actions by user and event within the Sentry UI (e.g., member.invite, project.create) are listed chronologically by time and IP address so you’ll always have a view into your organization’s most recent history.”

    Read 2026-09-21 · official site · Report a correction

SOC 2

Datadog
SOC 2 Type 2 listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications.
Sentry
SOC 2 Type I and Type II certifications; report available via account or on request.
Sources (2) →
  • Datadog Trust Center ↗

    “PCI DSS TISAX VPAT EU AI Act IRAP SOC 2 Type 2”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

  • Sentry Security ↗

    “Sentry has obtained the following compliance certifications: SOC2 Type I SOC2 Type II [...] Sentry's SOC 2 report and ISO 27001 certificate are available to customers via their Sentry account or upon request.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

ISO 27001

Datadog
ISO/IEC 27001 listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications, with the certificate a featured downloadable document.
Sentry
ISO 27001 certified; certificate available via account or on request.
Sources (2) →

HIPAA

Datadog
HIPAA listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications.
Sentry
HIPAA attestation obtained. — Listed as an attestation among compliance certifications, not as a BAA offer.
Sources (2) →

Encryption at rest

Datadog
Stored data is protected by encryption, access controls and authentication; integration credentials are encrypted at rest and in transit.
Sentry
All data encrypted at rest; keys managed via a redundant, globally distributed Key Management Service.
Sources (2) →

Role-based access control

Datadog
Default Admin, Standard and Read-Only roles, plus support for custom roles.
Sentry
Role-based access: Billing, Member, Admin, Manager, Organization Owner.
Sources (2) →
  • Datadog Security ↗

    “Datadog includes default roles, including Admin, Standard, and Read-Only, and supports custom roles for more granular access management.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

  • Sentry Security ↗

    “Access to organizations is dictated by role: Billing Member Admin Manager Organization Owner”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

What the free plan includesSentry: 5,000 errors, 5 GB of logs, 5 million spans, 50 session replays and 1 uptime monitor a month.
When you exceed a capSentry: Billed, not throttled: each meter charges for additional usage beyond the included amount, at a published per-unit rate.
RegionsDatadog: Nine sites: US1, US3, US5, EU1 (Germany), US1-FED, US2-FED, AP1 (Japan), AP2 (Australia) and UK1; each site is a separate instance chosen at signup.
Ingest price per GBDatadog: $0.10 per ingested or scanned GB per month for Log Management, billed annually — the same rate on demand. Indexing those logs is charged separately.
Query priceDatadog: $0.05 per GB scanned for Archive Search on an annual commitment ($0.07 per GB scanned on-demand); log Rehydration costs $0.10 per compressed GB scanned.
Support on entry paid planSentry: Four levels listed: community support via GitHub and Discord, email support, a dedicated technical account manager, and premium customer success. Enterprise is the tier the page names for the account manager and dedicated support.
GDPR / data residencyDatadog: GDPR listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications; a Data Processing Addendum is available under Legal documents.Sentry: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Sentry.
PCI DSSDatadog: PCI DSS listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications.Sentry: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Sentry.
Customer-managed keysDatadog: Log Archives to Amazon S3 can be forced to use a customer-managed key (CMK) from AWS KMS; you supply the CMK ARN and key policy. Scope: archive objects in your own S3 bucket; the other dropdown options are SSE-S3 and the bucket default.Sentry: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Sentry.
Private networking / VPCDatadog: AWS PrivateLink supported for Agent and log traffic on supported Datadog sites.Sentry: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Sentry.
Dedicated infrastructureDatadog: BYOC Log Management runs a petabyte-scale log engine in your own infrastructure while the Datadog platform is used for querying, analytics and investigations. Scope: log management deployed into your own cloud environment; other Datadog products are not covered by BYOC.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Datadog or Sentry?

Datadog: $15 per host per month for Infrastructure Pro, the entry paid product. Datadog prices per product rather than per plan, so this is one meter of many rather than a platform fee.

Sentry: $26/month for Team, the cheapest paid plan

Should I choose Datadog or Sentry?

Pick Datadog if Teams that need one vendor across infrastructure, logs, traces and replay, and can model a bill that has a separate meter for each.

Pick Sentry if Teams that want tracing, logs, replays and uptime in one place and will pay per meter for it. The tooling is the deepest in the category and the SDK coverage is the widest.

Provider pages

DatadogObservability suite priced per product — this profile follows Log Management, the closest analogue to the per-GB platforms it competes with.SentryError monitoring and tracing sold per event across errors, spans, logs and replays, with a self-hosted build offered without support guarantees.

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Comments

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