Does Bugsnag have a free plan?

Yes. Bugsnag offers a free tier with limits; paid plans unlock higher usage or team features.

What are the main drawbacks of Bugsnag?

The trade-offs we noted: Event pricing climbs with traffic; Smaller ecosystem than Sentry; Fewer performance features.

When should you not use Bugsnag?

Skip Bugsnag if: You need more than one user for free; You want a fixed price list — paid tiers are configured by event and span volume; You need on-premises: that is Enterprise.

Developer Tools

Bugsnag

Error monitoring and application stability scores.

What it is

Bugsnag monitors application errors and reports a stability score per release, so you can see whether a deploy made things worse. Grouping errors by release is what makes it useful in a deploy review: you can say whether the last ship raised the error rate rather than guessing. It is narrower than the full observability suites, so metrics and traces still come from somewhere else.

Bugsnag pricing

Bugsnag lists 1 plan and none of them carries a monthly charge.

Bugsnag plans and published prices, taken from the vendor’s pricing page.
Plan	Price	What the vendor’s page says
Free	$0/mo	Free $0: 7.5K events, 1M spans/month, 1 user

Prices read from the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-08. Vendors change plans without notice — check the source before you budget. Source

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Key features

Release health
Scores stability per release so a regression is visible after deploy.
Error grouping
Collapses duplicate exceptions into one issue with occurrence counts.
Breadcrumbs
Records the user actions leading up to an error for reproduction.

Strengths and trade-offs

What works well

Stability scores tie errors to releases
Good mobile SDK coverage
Clear grouping of duplicate errors

Where it falls short

Event pricing climbs with traffic
Smaller ecosystem than Sentry
Fewer performance features

Who it is for

Teams that ship mobile or web releases and need to know if quality is slipping.

Pick it or skip it

Pick Bugsnag if

Solo developers: the Free plan gives 7.5K events and 1M spans a month for 1 user
Small teams that want usage-based pricing from 50k events with unlimited users
Larger teams that need error prioritisation and SAML SSO on Preferred

Skip it if

You need more than one user for free
You want a fixed price list — paid tiers are configured by event and span volume
You need on-premises: that is Enterprise

Our verdict

The release-stability framing is genuinely useful. Sentry covers more ground for most teams.

Frequently asked questions

Does Bugsnag have a free plan?: Yes. Bugsnag offers a free tier with limits; paid plans unlock higher usage or team features.
Who is Bugsnag best for?: Teams that ship mobile or web releases and need to know if quality is slipping.
What are the main drawbacks of Bugsnag?: The trade-offs we noted: Event pricing climbs with traffic; Smaller ecosystem than Sentry; Fewer performance features.
When should you not use Bugsnag?: Skip Bugsnag if: You need more than one user for free; You want a fixed price list — paid tiers are configured by event and span volume; You need on-premises: that is Enterprise.

What we checked

Public APIOffers a documented API you can build against.Yes
Mobile appHas a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.No
Open source / self-hostableSource is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.No
SSO (SAML)Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.Yes

“Not checked” means exactly that — we have not verified it, and we do not guess.

Evidence and freshness

Status: Vendor pricing page verifiedReviewed: 2026-09-08

BugSnag — Pricing ↗
Checked 2026-09-08 · Supports: Free $0: 7.5K events, 1M spans/month, 1 user, Select from $0 usage-based: 50k–3M events, unlimited users; Preferred: 100k–3M events, SAML SSO, Enterprise custom with on-prem; 14-day trial

Limit: Vendor pricing page was reviewed by an editor on this date; this record is not a ToolCompare benchmark. Prices and limits change.

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