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Bugsnag
Application Stability Monitoring
As of 30 August 2026, Bugsnag is free to use. Bugsnag is an application stability monitoring platform for detecting and fixing errors. Softwr lists it under Logging. Bugsnag is made by Bugsnag (Gumroad), launched in 2012, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Bugsnag does
Bugsnag is an application stability monitoring platform for detecting and fixing errors.
What people use it for
- Crash and error reporting for mobile and web applications
- Stability scores per release
- Grouping errors by root cause across deploys
- Alerting when a release regresses
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 Bugsnag.
- Owned by SmartBear rather than being independent
- The free tier covers 7,500 events a month
- Paid tiers are usage-priced by event volume rather than by seat, so a noisy release raises the bill
- Enterprise pricing is quote-only
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Pricing
What Bugsnag costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 1 user
- Error and performance monitoring
- 7500 events monthly
- 1 million spans monthly
- 50+ platforms supported
- 30+ integrations
Select
Free
- 50000-3 million error monitoring events monthly tiered
- 1-150 million performance monitoring spans
- Unlimited users
- End-to-end diagnostics
- Basic notifications
Preferred
Free
- 100000-3 million error monitoring events tiered
- 1-300 million performance monitoring spans
- Automatic error prioritization
- Stability benchmarks
- Advanced segmentation
- Custom notifications
Enterprise
On request
- Custom pricing
- All Preferred features plus
- Automatic error assignment
- Premium support
- Dedicated CSM
- Automatic user provisioning
Capabilities
Features
Error tracking
Crash reporting
Release tracking
Trend analysis
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.
Is BugSnag free?
BugSnag Free plan is free and includes 1 user, error and performance monitoring with 7500 events and 1 million spans monthly, 50+ platforms, 30+ integrations, and 7-day data retention for solo developers and passion projects.
SourceWhat are the event and span limits by BugSnag plan?
Free plan: 7500 error events and 1 million spans monthly. Select plan: 50000-3 million error events and 1-150 million spans tiered. Preferred plan: 100000-3 million error events and 1-300 million spans tiered. Enterprise plan: custom limits with pricing on request.
SourceHow long does BugSnag retain error data?
BugSnag Free plan retains data for 7 days. Select and Preferred paid plans retain error data for 60 days. Enterprise plans offer custom data retention periods negotiated with sales.
SourceWhat features does BugSnag Preferred plan add?
BugSnag Preferred plan (pricing tiered by volume, not published) adds automatic error prioritization, stability benchmarks, advanced segmentation, custom notifications, SAML SSO, and system metrics monitoring compared to Select plan.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Bugsnag
- Company
- Bugsnag (Gumroad)
- Based in
- United States
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