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Airbrake
Error Tracking and Performance Monitoring
As of 30 August 2026, Airbrake has a free plan and paid plans start at $19/month. Airbrake is an error tracking and performance monitoring platform for developers. Softwr lists it under Logging. Airbrake is launched in 2008, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Airbrake does
Airbrake is an error tracking and performance monitoring platform for developers.
What people use it for
- Error and exception monitoring for web applications
- Performance monitoring alongside error tracking
- Alerting a team when a deploy introduces a spike in errors
- Tracking errors across multiple projects in one account
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Airbrake.
- Data retention is 30 days on every plan, including the $799 a month Business tier
- The entry plan at $19 a month covers 25,000 errors and 7,500 events
- Errors beyond the plan quota are billed on demand
- Audit logs and spike forgiveness require the Pro tier
- The lowest tier is limited to 1 user and 1 team
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Pricing
What Airbrake costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Tier 1 (Dev + errors)
$19 /mo
- 25,000 errors per month
- 1 user
- 1 team
- Unlimited projects
Tier 2 (Basic + errors)
$38 /mo
- 100,000 errors per month
- Unlimited users
- 3 teams
- Unlimited projects
Pro
$76 /mo
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited teams
- Unlimited projects
- Audit Logs
- Spike forgiveness
- Marked as BEST VALUE
Tier 5 (Growth)
$299 /mo
- 1 million errors per month
Tier 6 (Business)
$799 /mo
- 5 million errors per month
Capabilities
Features
Error tracking
Performance monitoring
Deploy tracking
Custom notifications
API
Integration with API
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST
Integration with REST
Web support
Available on web
Api support
Available on api
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
What is the lowest-cost Airbrake plan and what does it include?
Tier 1 costs $19 per month and includes 25,000 errors per month, 1 user seat, 1 team, and unlimited projects. This plan targets individual developers. A 10% discount applies when paying annually ($17.10 per month).
SourceWhich Airbrake plan is marked as the best value?
The Pro plan at $76 per month is marked as Best Value. It includes unlimited users, unlimited teams, unlimited projects, audit logs, and spike forgiveness. Annual billing provides a 10% discount ($68 per month).
SourceHow many errors per month does each Airbrake tier allow?
Tier 1 allows 25,000 errors per month at $19/month. Tier 2 allows 100,000 errors at $38/month. Tier 4 allows 300,000 errors at $129/month. Tier 5 allows 1 million errors at $299/month. Tier 6 allows 5 million errors at $799/month.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Airbrake
- Company
- Airbrake
- Based in
- United States
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