Our take
Pick Grafana if observability teams who will stay on Cloud Free at $0 always (usage limits, 14-day retention) while they open a first dashboard, then buy Pro from $19 / month + usage (platform fee $19 includes 10k active series) or Enterprise from $25,000 / year. 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 or
Best for
Grafana Time series you edit at $0
Sentry Errors you triage at $0
Free plan
Grafana $0 · always. No charges ever. All Grafana Cloud services with usage limits. 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6. Community support. Adaptive Telemetry and AI Assistant on the Free benefits
Sentry $0 · one user. Error monitoring and tracing. 10 custom dashboards. 50k errors. 5M spans. 50 replays
Lowest paid
Grafana Pro $19
Sentry Team $26
Next step up
Grafana
Sentry Business $80
Runs where
Grafana Hosted
Sentry Hosted
Watch out
Grafana Free retention is 14 days
Sentry Developer is one user
Last checked
Grafana 2026-10-23 · grafana.com/pricing
Sentry 2026-10-23 · sentry.io/pricing
observability teams who will stay on Cloud Free at $0 always (usage limits, 14-day retention) while they open a first dashboard, then buy Pro from $19 / month + usage (platform fee $19 includes 10k active series) or Enterprise from $25,000 / year.
Read the Grafana 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
