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GlitchTip pricing and limits

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glitchtip.com · Error tracking and observability
SEPT 2026 audit

Open-source error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs, offered as a hosted plan priced per event or run yourself for free.

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Entry paid plan$15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million
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.
Free tierYes
CategoryError tracking and observability

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 20 criteria comparedSources last checked

GlitchTip pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million source ↗
Pricing model
Flat monthly tiers bought by event ceiling, with a free self-hosted build as the alternative to the hosted plans source ↗
What the free plan includes
1,000 events a month, described by GlitchTip as free forever source ↗
When the free offer ends
Never — free forever, up to 1,000 events a month source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in GlitchTip pricing below.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

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.

Consider something else if…

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Machine-derived signals

Not sourced facts — counts and matches read by a script, not a person. See each line for where it comes from.

GlitchTip's own site (glitchtip.com) self-detects as: hosting — US hosting, Cloud PaaS, Cloud Hosting · CDN — Edge Delivery Network (category-level via BuiltWith, not a named vendor)

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GlitchTip pricing

6 criteria
Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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What the free plan includes1,000 events a month, described by GlitchTip as free forever.
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When the free offer endsNever — free forever, up to 1,000 events a month.
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Entry paid plan$15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million
Sources (1) →
  • 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 modelFlat monthly tiers bought by event ceiling, with a free self-hosted build as the alternative to the hosted plans.
Sources (1) →
  • 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

Infrastructure

1 criteria
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.
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Observability

3 criteria
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.
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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.
Sources (1) →
  • 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

Self-hostableSupported
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Support

1 criteria
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.
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  • 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

Compliance

9 criteria
SOC 2No SOC 2 report claimed; the hosted architecture is described as adhering to principles found in HIPAA, SOC II and ISO 27001 frameworks.
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ISO 27001No certification claimed; the hosted architecture is described as adhering to principles found in the ISO 27001 framework.
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HIPAABAA available on the Large plan ($250/month) for the US instance only; the EU instance is not covered.
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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.
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PCI DSSNot certified itself; billing is handled by Stripe (PCI-DSS Service Provider Level 1), which never receives event data.
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Encryption at restDigitalOcean Volumes Block Storage encryption at rest; TLS 1.2+ in transit.
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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.
Sources (1) →
Private networking / VPCHosted database cluster sits in a private VPC unreachable from the public internet; no customer-facing private connectivity is described.
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Dedicated infrastructureAll hosted plans run on the same security-controlled infrastructure; the difference between Free, Small, Medium and Large is contractual.
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  • HIPAA Compliance | GlitchTip ↗

    “All hosted plans run on the same security-controlled infrastructure: encryption at rest, TLS in transit, private VPC, and 90-day data retention. The difference is contractual”

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

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GlitchTip pricing questions

How much does GlitchTip cost?

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

Pricing — GlitchTip · read

How does GlitchTip charge?

Flat monthly tiers bought by event ceiling, with a free self-hosted build as the alternative to the hosted plans.

GlitchTip Pricing · read

Does GlitchTip have a free tier?

Yes. 1,000 events a month, described by GlitchTip as free forever.

GlitchTip Pricing · read

Does the GlitchTip free offer expire?

Never — free forever, up to 1,000 events a month.

GlitchTip Pricing · read

Can you self-host GlitchTip?

Yes.

Pricing — GlitchTip · read

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