Monitoring tools compared: prices and price hikes
Tools that tell you when your app breaks and why: error tracking, APM and tracing, logs and full-stack observability, compared on what it costs to monitor the same small app.
Prices at 50,000 errors a month
- Better Stack: free
- Grafana Cloud: free
- Sentry: $29/mo
- Datadog: $30/mo · last hike Sep 2026
- New Relic: $108/mo · last hike Dec 2025
Every price is for the same small SaaS app (2 hosts, 10 million requests and spans, 50,000 errors and 50 GB of logs a month, 3 developers) on the cheapest self-serve plan that fully covers that job, billed monthly, including overage and per-user fees. Free plans count when they cover the whole scenario and allow commercial use.