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GlitchTip vs SigNoz

SEPT 2026 audit

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

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 23 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose GlitchTip if…

Anyone who wants Sentry-shaped error tracking without Sentry's bill — the SDKs are compatible, so switching is a DSN change, and self-hosting is free and genuinely supported.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose SigNoz if…

Teams that want per-GB billing without per-host or per-seat charges, and the option to run the same product themselves rather than being locked to the cloud version.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • GlitchTip: It tracks errors and nothing else. No tracing, no replays, no uptime monitoring, so a team wanting one pane of glass will be assembling it from parts.
  • SigNoz: $0.30 per GB is six times OpenObserve's rate, so a high-volume log pipeline pays a large premium for the packaging.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: GlitchTip alternatives · SigNoz alternatives

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

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionGlitchTipSigNoz
Pricing
Free tier
Yes
No
Kind of free offerFree tierFree trial
Entry paid plan$15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million$49/month for Teams, and the $49 is usage credit rather than a fee on top — SigNoz bills against it before charging more.
Pricing modelFlat monthly tiers bought by event ceiling, with a free self-hosted build as the alternative to the hosted plans.Per GB ingested, with no per-user, per-host or custom-metric pricing — SigNoz states all three exclusions explicitly. Retention is a per-signal choice that changes the rate.
Infrastructure
RegionsTwo fully separate hosted instances: US (DigitalOcean NYC1, New York, app.glitchtip.com) and EU (DigitalOcean FRA1, Frankfurt, eu.glitchtip.com); no replication between them.US, EU and India data centres for SigNoz Cloud; Enterprise Cloud lets you pick the region.
Observability
Events included100,000 events a month on the cheapest paid plan; 1,000 on the free hosted plan. One meter, not several — GlitchTip counts events and nothing else.No events meter: SigNoz Cloud bills traces and logs per GB and metrics per million samples. The $49/month Teams minimum includes $49 of usage — e.g. 163 GB of logs or traces, or 490 mn metric samples.
Retention window90 days by default when self-hosted, set by GLITCHTIP_RETENTION_DAYS and configurable per data type — events, transactions, logs, uptime checks and files all inherit it, releases keep 365 days. Events move from Postgres to cold storage after 30 days but stay queryable. GlitchTip publishes no retention figure for its hosted plans.15 days by default for logs and traces, selectable up to 30, 90, 180 days or 1 year at higher rates.
Self-hostableSupportedSupported
Support
Support on entry paid planSupport access on Small ($15/month), the entry paid plan; priority email and live chat from Medium; development support and prioritization on Large.In-product chat, email and Slack on the usage-based cloud plan. Enterprise, from $4,000/month, adds data residency and compliance.
Compliance
SOC 2
No SOC 2 report claimed; the hosted architecture is described as adhering to principles found in HIPAA, SOC II and ISO 27001 frameworks.
SOC 2 Type 2 compliant on SigNoz Cloud.
HIPAA
BAA available on the Large plan ($250/month) for the US instance only; the EU instance is not covered.
HIPAA compliant, with a BAA available as an add-on for eligible SigNoz Cloud contracts.
GDPR / data residencyFully independent EU instance in Frankfurt keeps events, accounts and email inside the EU; a DPA with EU SCCs and the UK addendum is published.Data residency via US, EU and India regions so data need not leave its region; Enterprise Cloud selects the region.
Encryption at restDigitalOcean Volumes Block Storage encryption at rest; TLS 1.2+ in transit.Encrypted at rest and in transit on the Enterprise offering.
Role-based access controlOrganization members hold one of four roles (member, admin, manager, owner) set via the members API, plus optional per-team roles. Linked as "API Documentation" from glitchtip.com/documentation.Role-based access control included; fine-grained RBAC is listed as beta on the pricing comparison.
Private networking / VPCHosted database cluster sits in a private VPC unreachable from the public internet; no customer-facing private connectivity is described.BYOC / Enterprise Self-Hosted runs the SigNoz stack inside your own AWS/GCP/Azure account, so your data never leaves your VPC. From the deployment-options section: Enterprise Self-Hosted / BYOC, alongside a fully managed Enterprise Cloud.
Dedicated infrastructure
All hosted plans run on the same security-controlled infrastructure; the difference between Free, Small, Medium and Large is contractual.
Enterprise offers SigNoz Cloud: Dedicated, Enterprise Self-Hosted, and a bring-your-own-cloud option run by SigNoz in your account.

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.

Free tier

GlitchTip
Yes
SigNoz
No
Sources (2) →

Kind of free offer

GlitchTip
Free tier
SigNoz
Free trial
Sources (2) →

Entry paid plan

GlitchTip
$15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million
SigNoz
$49/month for Teams, and the $49 is usage credit rather than a fee on top — SigNoz bills against it before charging more.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — GlitchTip ↗

    “Up to 100k events/mo [...] $15 / month [...] Up to 500k events/mo [...] $50 / month [...] Up to 3 million events/mo [...] $250 / month”

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

  • Pricing — SigNoz ↗

    “Teams For fast-scaling teams that need observability to scale with them. starts from $199 $49 /month [...] After the included $49 of usage”

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

Pricing model

GlitchTip
Flat monthly tiers bought by event ceiling, with a free self-hosted build as the alternative to the hosted plans.
SigNoz
Per GB ingested, with no per-user, per-host or custom-metric pricing — SigNoz states all three exclusions explicitly. Retention is a per-signal choice that changes the rate.
Sources (2) →
  • GlitchTip Pricing ↗

    “Self-hosted version Run on your own server Free for personal projects [...] up to 100k events/mo [...] support access $15 / month [...] up to 500k events/mo [...] up to 3 million events/mo”

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

  • Pricing — SigNoz ↗

    “Simple Usage-based Predictable Observability Costs No user-based pricing No host-based pricing No special pricing for custom metrics”

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

Regions

GlitchTip
Two fully separate hosted instances: US (DigitalOcean NYC1, New York, app.glitchtip.com) and EU (DigitalOcean FRA1, Frankfurt, eu.glitchtip.com); no replication between them.
SigNoz
US, EU and India data centres for SigNoz Cloud; Enterprise Cloud lets you pick the region.
Sources (2) →

Events included

GlitchTip
100,000 events a month on the cheapest paid plan; 1,000 on the free hosted plan. One meter, not several — GlitchTip counts events and nothing else.
SigNoz
No events meter: SigNoz Cloud bills traces and logs per GB and metrics per million samples. The $49/month Teams minimum includes $49 of usage — e.g. 163 GB of logs or traces, or 490 mn metric samples.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — GlitchTip ↗

    “Up to 1,000 events/mo [...] Up to 100k events/mo [...] $15 / month”

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

  • SigNoz | Pricing ↗

    “After the included $49 of usage, SigNoz Cloud bills: Traces $0.30 /GB Logs $0.30 /GB Metrics $0.10 /mn samples [...] $49 of usage (for example, 163 GB of logs or traces, or 490 mn metric samples)”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Retention window

GlitchTip
90 days by default when self-hosted, set by GLITCHTIP_RETENTION_DAYS and configurable per data type — events, transactions, logs, uptime checks and files all inherit it, releases keep 365 days. Events move from Postgres to cold storage after 30 days but stay queryable. GlitchTip publishes no retention figure for its hosted plans.
SigNoz
15 days by default for logs and traces, selectable up to 30, 90, 180 days or 1 year at higher rates.
Sources (2) →
  • Installation — GlitchTip documentation ↗

    “Data Retention [...] GlitchTip automatically cleans up old data based on configurable retention periods. [...] GLITCHTIP_RETENTION_DAYS 90 Master default for all retention periods [...] GLITCHTIP_EVENT_HOT_DAYS 30 Days to keep events in PostgreSQL before archival [...] GLITCHTIP_RELEASE_RETENTION_DAYS 365 Release retention”

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

  • Pricing — SigNoz ↗

    “Logs $ 0.3 /GB ingested 15 days retention 15 days retention 30 days retention 90 days retention 180 days retention 1 year retention”

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

Support on entry paid plan

GlitchTip
Support access on Small ($15/month), the entry paid plan; priority email and live chat from Medium; development support and prioritization on Large.
SigNoz
In-product chat, email and Slack on the usage-based cloud plan. Enterprise, from $4,000/month, adds data residency and compliance.
Sources (2) →
  • GlitchTip Pricing ↗

    “support access $15 / month [...] priority email & live chat support $50 / month [...] development support & prioritization”

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

  • SigNoz Pricing ↗

    “add unlimited teammates and monitor any number of hosts support via in-product chat, email, and slack soc2 type ii & hipaa compliant [...] for larger orgs that need data residency, compliance and support. custom starts at $4000/month”

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

SOC 2

GlitchTip
No SOC 2 report claimed; the hosted architecture is described as adhering to principles found in HIPAA, SOC II and ISO 27001 frameworks.
SigNoz
SOC 2 Type 2 compliant on SigNoz Cloud.
Sources (2) →

HIPAA

GlitchTip
BAA available on the Large plan ($250/month) for the US instance only; the EU instance is not covered.
SigNoz
HIPAA compliant, with a BAA available as an add-on for eligible SigNoz Cloud contracts.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

GlitchTip
Fully independent EU instance in Frankfurt keeps events, accounts and email inside the EU; a DPA with EU SCCs and the UK addendum is published.
SigNoz
Data residency via US, EU and India regions so data need not leave its region; Enterprise Cloud selects the region.
Sources (2) →

Encryption at rest

GlitchTip
DigitalOcean Volumes Block Storage encryption at rest; TLS 1.2+ in transit.
SigNoz
Encrypted at rest and in transit on the Enterprise offering.
Sources (2) →

Role-based access control

GlitchTip
Organization members hold one of four roles (member, admin, manager, owner) set via the members API, plus optional per-team roles. Linked as "API Documentation" from glitchtip.com/documentation.
SigNoz
Role-based access control included; fine-grained RBAC is listed as beta on the pricing comparison.
Sources (2) →

Private networking / VPC

GlitchTip
Hosted database cluster sits in a private VPC unreachable from the public internet; no customer-facing private connectivity is described.
SigNoz
BYOC / Enterprise Self-Hosted runs the SigNoz stack inside your own AWS/GCP/Azure account, so your data never leaves your VPC. From the deployment-options section: Enterprise Self-Hosted / BYOC, alongside a fully managed Enterprise Cloud.
Sources (2) →

Dedicated infrastructure

GlitchTip
All hosted plans run on the same security-controlled infrastructure; the difference between Free, Small, Medium and Large is contractual.
SigNoz
Enterprise offers SigNoz Cloud: Dedicated, Enterprise Self-Hosted, and a bring-your-own-cloud option run by SigNoz in your account.
Sources (2) →

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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 includesGlitchTip: 1,000 events a month, described by GlitchTip as free forever.
When the free offer endsGlitchTip: Never — free forever, up to 1,000 events a month.
Session replaySigNoz: Not supported — SigNoz's own table of capabilities it does not offer today marks Session Replays No for SigNoz Cloud.
Ingest price per GBSigNoz: $0.30 per GB ingested for logs, and the same for traces. Retention is chosen per signal and priced with it.
Query priceSigNoz: No charge for querying on SigNoz Cloud: query compute is included in the $0.30/GB ingestion price, with no dashboard or API charges.
ISO 27001GlitchTip: No certification claimed; the hosted architecture is described as adhering to principles found in the ISO 27001 framework.
PCI DSSGlitchTip: Not certified itself; billing is handled by Stripe (PCI-DSS Service Provider Level 1), which never receives event data.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: GlitchTip or SigNoz?

GlitchTip: $15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million

SigNoz: $49/month for Teams, and the $49 is usage credit rather than a fee on top — SigNoz bills against it before charging more.

Free tier: GlitchTip or SigNoz?

GlitchTip: Yes

SigNoz: No

Should I choose GlitchTip or SigNoz?

Pick GlitchTip if Anyone who wants Sentry-shaped error tracking without Sentry's bill — the SDKs are compatible, so switching is a DSN change, and self-hosting is free and genuinely supported.

Pick SigNoz if Teams that want per-GB billing without per-host or per-seat charges, and the option to run the same product themselves rather than being locked to the cloud version.

Provider pages

GlitchTipOpen-source error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs, offered as a hosted plan priced per event or run yourself for free.SigNozOpen-source observability for logs, metrics and traces, billed per GB ingested with retention chosen per signal.

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Comments

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