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Alternatives to Raygun
22 logging tools sit alongside Raygun in this directory. Below is what separates each from Raygun on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 17
- Cheaper to start
- 10
- Raygun starts at
- $40/month
Why people look past Raygun
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Raygun entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
It costs more than the category median
Raygun starts at $40/month. Across the 10 logging tools listed beside it that publish a price, the median entry point is $13/month.
There is no free tier
The record for Raygun carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 17 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
Cost climbs steeply across the tiers
Raygun publishes 4 tiers, from $40/month up to On request. Teams that outgrow the entry plan can find the next rung a large step, the Raygun pricing page breaks each one down.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Search, Observability, and Security Solutions
- Sold on a subscription model rather than usage-based.
Log Management and Analytics
- Starts $39.9 a per GB ingested per month cheaper, at $0.1/per GB ingested per month.
Observability made simple
- Can be used without paying; Raygun cannot.
- Starts $9 a month dearer, at $49/month.
Continuous Log Insights and Visibility
- Can be used without paying; Raygun cannot.
- Starts $39.58 a per GB (logs ingestion) cheaper, at $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion).
Monitoring for cron jobs, websites, and background tasks
- Can be used without paying; Raygun cannot.
- Starts $38 a monitor/month cheaper, at $2/monitor/month.
- Sold on a Pay-per-monitor plus user seats model rather than usage-based.
- 3 tiers to Raygun's 4.
LLM reliability platform with open-source observability and evaluation
- Can be used without paying; Raygun cannot.
- Sold on a Freemium with pay-as-you-go enterprise option model rather than usage-based.
- 2 tiers to Raygun's 4.
Every Raygun alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raygun (this page) | $40/month | Usage-based | 4 | |
| Elastic StackSearch, Observability, and Security Solutions | On request | Subscription | - | vs Raygun |
| Datadog LogsLog Management and Analytics | $0.1/per GB ingested per month | Usage-based | - | vs Raygun |
| New RelicObservability made simple | Free, then $49/month | - | - | vs Raygun |
| CoralogixContinuous Log Insights and Visibility | Free, then $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion) | Usage-based | - | vs Raygun |
| Cronitor | Free, then $2/monitor/month | Pay-per-monitor plus user seats | 3 | vs Raygun |
| Traceloop | Free | Freemium with pay-as-you-go enterprise option | 2 | vs Raygun |
| Openstatus | Free, then $30/month | - | 4 | vs Raygun |
| Healthchecks | Free, then $5/month | Per-job monitoring with fixed tiers | 4 | vs Raygun |
| incident.io | Free | Subscription | 3 | vs Raygun |
| FireHydrant | Free, then $25/responder-month | Subscription | 3 | vs Raygun |
| Checkly | Free | Subscription | 3 | vs Raygun |
| Filebeat | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs Raygun |
| Fluentd | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs Raygun |
| ELK Stack | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs Raygun |
| Fluent Bit | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs Raygun |
| Azure Monitor | Free | Usage-based | 1 | vs Raygun |
| Grafana Loki | Free | Freemium | - | vs Raygun |
| Better Stack | Free, then $25/month | Freemium | 5 | vs Raygun |
| Dynatrace Logs | Free | Subscription | 1 | vs Raygun |
| Uptime.com | On request | Subscription | - | vs Raygun |
| Rootly | $20/user-month | Subscription | 4 | vs Raygun |
| AppDynamics | $6/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Raygun |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Raygun badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (17)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- New Relic , Free, then $49/month
- Coralogix , Free, then $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion)
- Cronitor , Free, then $2/monitor/month
- Traceloop , Free
- Openstatus , Free, then $30/month
- Healthchecks , Free, then $5/month
- incident.io , Free
- FireHydrant , Free, then $25/responder-month
Cheaper than Raygun (10)
Entry price under Raygun's $40/month. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Datadog Logs , $0.1/per GB ingested per month
- Coralogix , Free, then $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion)
- Cronitor , Free, then $2/monitor/month
- Openstatus , Free, then $30/month
- Healthchecks , Free, then $5/month
- FireHydrant , Free, then $25/responder-month
- Grafana Loki , Free
- Better Stack , Free, then $25/month
What you would be giving up
Raygun is most often brought in for crash and error reporting for web, mobile and backend applications, real user monitoring of front end page load and session performance, application performance monitoring with request level traces. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Raygun is broadly right and the question is cost, the Raygun pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Logging category lists everything the directory holds, and best logging tools ranks them.
Raygun runs on web, api. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Raygun alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Raygun?
- 22 other logging tools are listed in this directory, led by Elastic Stack, Datadog Logs, New Relic, Coralogix. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Raygun?
- 17 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: New Relic, Coralogix, Cronitor, Traceloop, Openstatus.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Raygun?
- Yes. 10 of the alternatives below start under Raygun's $40/month: Datadog Logs at $0.1/per GB ingested per month, Coralogix at Free, then $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion), Cronitor at Free, then $2/monitor/month, Openstatus at Free, then $30/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Raygun?
- On the figures on record, 3 things stand out: it costs more than the category median; there is no free tier; cost climbs steeply across the tiers. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Raygun?
- Raygun is most often brought in for crash and error reporting for web, mobile and backend applications, real user monitoring of front end page load and session performance, application performance monitoring with request level traces. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Raygun?
- Filebeat, Fluentd, ELK Stack, Fluent Bit are recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Raygun alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Logging, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Raygun against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Raygun covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every logging tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Logging category, 22 tools beside Raygun. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.