Sentry vs SolarWinds Incident Response
Compare Sentry and SolarWinds Incident Response on features, pricing, and buyer fit using the same researched criteria.
Sentry
Application error monitoring, tracing, and replays — Developer Free; Team $26/mo annual with default prepaid; Business $80/mo. Not a Datadog infra replacement.
Best for
- • Application teams whose primary observability job is errors, traces, and replays
- • Developers who want a free 5k-error path before Team $26
- • Buyers comparing a specialist to Datadog/Splunk host suites
Starting from $26.00/user/mo
Free plan available
VS
Our verdict
No universal winner. Choose based on which criteria matter most for your team.
Sentry is better for
- ✓ Free plan
SolarWinds Incident Response is better for
- ✓ Starting pricing
Tie
- • Integrations
- • Security & admin
Choose Sentry if: Application teams whose primary observability job is errors, traces, and replays
Choose SolarWinds Incident Response if: Teams that want on-call + incident response with a published Pro $15 annual floor
SolarWinds Incident Response
SolarWinds Incident Response (formerly Squadcast) — Pro $15/user/mo annual; Premium $24/user/mo annual; Enterprise contact; 14-day trial. Slug remains squadcast. Does not outrank PagerDuty 8.0.
Best for
- • Teams that want on-call + incident response with a published Pro $15 annual floor
- • Buyers comparing SolarWinds Incident Response (Squadcast) to incident.io, FireHydrant, and Rootly
- • Orgs that will spend the 14-day trial before committing
Starting from $15.00/user/mo
No free plan
Comparison scorecard
Criterion-by-criterion results for Sentry and SolarWinds Incident Response. Numeric bars appear only when both products have approved scores.
- SolarWinds Incident Response
Starting pricing
Published floor price and what that floor actually includes.
SolarWinds Incident Response publishes a lower researched starting floor ($15/mo vs $26/mo for Sentry). Confirm currency, renewals, and add-ons — not a total TCO winner.
SentryWeakerSolarWinds Incident ResponseStronger - Sentry
Free plan
Whether a usable free plan is published, and what it gates.
Sentry researches a free plan; SolarWinds Incident Response does not research a free plan.
SentryStrongerSolarWinds Incident ResponseWeaker - Depends
User / licence minimum
Seat floors, per-employee minimums, and small-team pricing traps.
Check seat, agent, or licence minimums for Sentry and SolarWinds Incident Response on current vendor packaging.
SentryDependsSolarWinds Incident ResponseDepends - Tie
Integrations
Important third-party integrations.
Sentry and SolarWinds Incident Response are close on integrations (8/10 vs 8/10) from approved SoftwareGlimpse editorial assessments — not hands-on lab testing.
Sentry8/10SolarWinds Incident Response8/10 - Tie
Security & admin
Admin controls, access, compliance posture, and security packaging.
Sentry and SolarWinds Incident Response are close on security admin (7/10 vs 7/10) from approved SoftwareGlimpse editorial assessments — not hands-on lab testing.
SentryTieSolarWinds Incident ResponseTie
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