Bilge vs Flare

Bilge vs Flare: Laravel error tracking compared

Flare is Laravel-native and pairs with Ignition, the error page Laravel developers already know. Bilge is just as Laravel-deep, and also covers the other stacks you add later from one dashboard.

Written by the people who build Bilge, so we are biased. We have tried to keep it about fit, not winners.

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At a glance

	Bilge	Flare
Laravel depth	Blade, Eloquent, queued jobs, automatic N+1 and slow-query flags	Deep, Ignition-native
Other stacks	PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, WordPress	Laravel/PHP focused by design
Ingest protocol	Documented plain HTTP/JSON, plus Sentry-compatible endpoints	Laravel/PHP-oriented client
Alerting	Fingerprint grouping and threshold rules over 1h/24h windows, so a spike pages once	Configurable notifications; check their docs
Also included	Tracing, session replay, cron and uptime monitors, status pages, MCP server	Error tracking and performance; check current plans
Free plan	100,000 events/month, 1 project, 14-day retention, no card	See their current pricing

Flare is a good fit when

Teams that are all-in on Laravel/PHP and love Ignition's local debugging experience.

Bilge is a good fit when

You want Laravel depth and one dashboard for every stack, alerts that stay quiet until something really breaks, a free plan you can run real traffic through, and a plain-HTTP ingest contract so leaving stays cheap.

Bilge pricing

Plan	Price	Events / month	Retention
Starter	Free	100,000	14 days
Standard	$29/mo	1,000,000	30 days
Growth	$79/mo	5,000,000	90 days

Trying Bilge next to Flare

Add Bilge alongside Flare with `composer require bilgesh/tracing` and `php artisan bilge:install`, keep both running for a week, then keep the one that catches more with less noise.

Put a week of real errors through both.

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