Our take
Pick Datadog if ops / app teams who will stay on Infrastructure Free (up to 5 hosts) while they open a first Trace Explorer list, then buy Infra Pro at $15 / host / month when they need longer retention — and APM at $36 / host / month standalone when they instrument traces. Pick Sentry if app teams who will stay on Developer at $0 (1 user, 50k errors) while they open a first Issues feed, then buy Team at $26 / month
Best for
Datadog Spans you search at a public $
Sentry Errors you triage at $0
Free plan
Datadog No free plan
Sentry $0 · one user. Error monitoring and tracing. 10 custom dashboards. 50k errors. 5M spans. 50 replays
Lowest paid
Datadog Infrastructure Pro $15
Sentry Team $26
Next step up
Datadog APM (standalone) $36/mo yearly
Sentry Business $80
Runs where
Datadog Hosted
Sentry Hosted
Watch out
Datadog $15 is per host, not a seat
Sentry Developer is one user
Last checked
Datadog 2026-10-23 · datadoghq.com/pricing
Sentry 2026-10-23 · sentry.io/pricing
ops / app teams who will stay on Infrastructure Free (up to 5 hosts) while they open a first Trace Explorer list, then buy Infra Pro at $15 / host / month when they need longer retention — and APM at $36 / host / month standalone when they instrument traces.
Read the Datadog pageapp teams who will stay on Developer at $0 (1 user, 50k errors) while they open a first Issues feed, then buy Team at $26 / month or Business at $80 / month (annual tiles with default prepaid data).
Read the Sentry page
