🤝 It's a Tie — Both tools are very closely matched. Your best choice depends on your specific workflow.
Feature
New Relic
Sentry
Rating
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Free Plan
Starting Price
Free
$26/mo
Monthly Visits
10.0M
15.0M
API Support
Open Source
AI Capabilities
Mobile App
Desktop App
Browser Extension
Integrations
4 apps
4 apps
Team Size
ENTERPRISE
ENTERPRISE
New Relic Pros & Cons
Pros
- Genuinely unified data platform across APM, infra, and logs
- Consumption-based pricing can be cost-effective for variable workloads
- Strong dashboards and alerting
Cons
- Consumption pricing requires active monitoring to avoid surprise bills
- Feature breadth means a learning curve to configure well
- Competes closely with Datadog on most core capabilities
Sentry Pros & Cons
Pros
- Fast to integrate into most frameworks
- Groups related errors intelligently, cutting noise
- Session replay makes reproducing bugs much easier
Cons
- Event-volume pricing can climb quickly for high-traffic apps
- Can generate alert fatigue without tuning
- Some advanced features require higher-tier plans
New Relic Key Features
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Log management
- Browser & mobile monitoring
- AI-driven anomaly detection
Sentry Key Features
- Real-time error & exception tracking
- Performance/transaction tracing
- Release health tracking
- Session replay
- Alerting & issue grouping