Bilge vs Sentry
Bilge vs Sentry: a Sentry alternative built for Laravel
Sentry is the broad, cross-platform incumbent with the deepest feature set. Bilge is Laravel-deep and multi-stack, quieter by default, and accepts events from your existing Sentry SDKs.
Written by the people who build Bilge, so we are biased. We have tried to keep it about fit, not winners.
At a glance
| Bilge | Sentry | |
|---|---|---|
| Laravel depth | Blade, Eloquent, queued jobs, automatic N+1 and slow-query flags | Solid Laravel SDK inside a large general-purpose product |
| Other stacks | PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Go, Swift, Kotlin, WordPress | Very broad platform coverage |
| Using your Sentry SDKs | Yes: Bilge ingests Sentry envelopes, so you change the DSN | Native |
| Ingest protocol | Documented plain HTTP/JSON, plus Sentry-compatible endpoints | Sentry SDK protocol |
| Alerting | Fingerprint grouping and threshold rules over 1h/24h windows, so a spike pages once | Powerful and configurable; tuning is part of the job |
| Also included | Tracing, session replay, cron and uptime monitors, status pages, MCP server | Performance, replay, profiling, crons and more |
| Free plan | 100,000 events/month, 1 project, 14-day retention, no card | See their current pricing |
Sentry is a good fit when
Large teams across many platforms who want the widest feature set and have the budget and time to tune it.
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 Sentry
Point your existing Sentry SDK at Bilge by swapping the DSN for your Bilge project's. Try it on staging or one service for a week while production stays on Sentry, or in a Laravel app add bilgesh/tracing next to Sentry so both get every error.
Step-by-step: switching from Sentry →
Put a week of real errors through both.
The free plan needs no card, so it is a zero-commitment second opinion.
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