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Sentry vs Datadog: free tier limits side by side

The free tier limit rows of Sentry and Datadog, as each vendor's public page listed them. Data collected on 2026-10-05.

Each column keeps the order of that tool's own page. A row puts two items next to each other by position only: they are the same kind of limit only when the item names say so. This page ranks nothing and picks neither tool.

SentryDatadog
Users: 1Hosts: up to 5
Errors: 5kMetric retention: 1 day
Session replays: 50Custom metrics: not stated by the vendor
Spans: 5M
Logs: 5GB
Cron monitors: 1
Uptime monitors: 1
Attachments: 1GB
Lookback: 30 days

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