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Four tools, or one otter?
For a solo founder with 5 apps and about 50k pageviews a month, Plausible, UptimeRobot, Sentry and Baremetrics cost $153 a month together at monthly prices. BugOtter Builder does those four jobs for $29, in one list. The stack still wins if you need session replay, a team, or dunning.
- $124saved a month at monthly prices
- $1,488saved a year
- 4 → 1logins, bills and dashboards
The short version
$124 a month less
$153 for the four tools, $29 for BugOtter Builder. Billed yearly it's about $116.50 against $24.One list, not four tabs
Outages, new errors and failed payments land in one list for every app, sorted by what needs you.The stack still wins sometimes
Session replay, a team, dunning or SMS alerts: keep the tool that does it. When to keep it.
The math, per tool
One realistic case: 5 apps, about 50k pageviews a month in total, one founder. Each tool at the cheapest plan that actually fits.
| Option | Part | Cost | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| The four tools | Plausible | $39 | Business, 100k pageviews. Plausible has no 50k tier, so ~50k pageviews means the 100k tier. Starter is one site and Growth is up to 3, so 5 sites needs Business. |
| The four tools | UptimeRobot | $10 | Solo, 10 monitors. Free checks every 5 minutes. Solo is the cheapest plan with 60-second checks, SSL monitoring and a status page on your own domain. |
| The four tools | Sentry | $29 | Team. The free Developer plan is one user and 5k errors. Team is the entry paid plan, with 50k errors. |
| The four tools | Baremetrics | $75 | Launch. Launch covers up to $360K ARR with one billing integration. The plan card says $75 a month; the FAQ on the same page says it starts at $49. |
| The four tools | Total | $153/mo | |
| BugOtter Builder | Builder | $29 | 10 awake apps, 200k pageviews and 50k errors a month, checks every minute |
| BugOtter Builder | Total | $29/mo | |
| The four, billed yearly | Plausible | $32.50 | Business, 100k pageviews. Plausible has no 50k tier, so ~50k pageviews means the 100k tier. Starter is one site and Growth is up to 3, so 5 sites needs Business. |
| The four, billed yearly | UptimeRobot | $9 | Solo, 10 monitors. Free checks every 5 minutes. Solo is the cheapest plan with 60-second checks, SSL monitoring and a status page on your own domain. |
| The four, billed yearly | Sentry | $26 | Team. The free Developer plan is one user and 5k errors. Team is the entry paid plan, with 50k errors. |
| The four, billed yearly | Baremetrics | from $49 | Launch. Launch covers up to $360K ARR with one billing integration. The plan card says $75 a month; the FAQ on the same page says it starts at $49. |
| The four, billed yearly | Total | about $116.50/mo | |
| Builder, billed yearly | Builder | $24 | $290 a year |
| Builder, billed yearly | Total | $24/mo |
You keep $124 a month · $1,488 a year at monthly prices, or about $92.50 a month billed yearly.
List prices in USD from each tool's pricing page, checked Nov 4, 2026. Sources under each card below.
Why each plan
The tier each tool needs for this case, and where we read the price.
- AnalyticsPlausible Business, 100k pageviews$39/mo$32.50/mo yearly
Plausible has no 50k tier, so ~50k pageviews means the 100k tier. Starter is one site and Growth is up to 3, so 5 sites needs Business.
plausible.io pricing, checked Nov 4, 2026 - Uptime and status pagesUptimeRobot Solo, 10 monitors$10/mo$9/mo yearly
Free checks every 5 minutes. Solo is the cheapest plan with 60-second checks, SSL monitoring and a status page on your own domain.
uptimerobot.com/pricing, checked Nov 4, 2026 - ErrorsSentry Team$29/mo$26/mo yearly
The free Developer plan is one user and 5k errors. Team is the entry paid plan, with 50k errors.
sentry.io/pricing, checked Nov 4, 2026 - RevenueBaremetrics Launch$75/mofrom $49/mo yearly
Launch covers up to $360K ARR with one billing integration. The plan card says $75 a month; the FAQ on the same page says it starts at $49.
baremetrics.com/pricing, checked Nov 4, 2026
$114/mo
The stack's floor, even on both free plans
Two of the four have free plans a careful solo founder can live on: Sentry's Developer plan (one user, 5k errors a month) and UptimeRobot's Free plan (checks every 5 minutes, allowed for commercial projects). With both, the stack is still $114 a month for analytics and revenue alone.
Baremetrics' yearly figure uses the $49 “starts at” price from their FAQ; their page also says annual plans get “up to a 35% discount”. Sentry's yearly price is “when billed annually with default pre-paid data”. DataFast would replace Plausible here at the same price (see the DataFast comparison). Checked Nov 4, 2026 on their own pages: plausible.io pricing, uptimerobot.com/pricing, sentry.io/pricing, baremetrics.com/pricing. Prices are in USD as their pages showed them, and they can change. We re-check every quarter.
What each one covers
Four specialists against one list. Partly means the feature exists with a limit, noted under it.
| Feature | Plausible | UptimeRobot | Sentry | Baremetrics | BugOtter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traffic and revenue | |||||
| Cookieless web analytics | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Revenue: MRR, churn, customers | PartlyRevenue goals you send | No | No | YesStripe, Braintree, Chargebee, Recurly, app stores and more | YesStripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem |
| Revenue per traffic source | PartlyBusiness plan, from events you send | No | No | No | YesFrom the payment provider, by visit |
| Uptime | |||||
| Uptime checks | No | YesEvery 60 s on Solo | Partly1 uptime alert included, more pay-as-you-go | No | Yesevery minute, 3 regions |
| Public status pages | No | Yes3 on Solo, own domain | Check their docs | No | YesOne per app; own domain on Pro |
| Errors | |||||
| Error tracking | No | No | Yes | No | YesBrowser script and Sentry SDKs |
| Source maps | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Release health | No | No | Yes | No | YesError rate per release |
| Session replay | No | No | Yes50 replays on Team | No | No |
| Working with it | |||||
| MCP for coding agents | Check their docs | Check their docs | Yes | YesRead-only MCP | Yes |
| One list of what needs you, all apps | Its own dashboard | Its own dashboard | Its own dashboard | Its own dashboard | Yes |
| Team seats | YesUp to 10 on Business | Yes3 on Team plan | YesUnlimited users on Team | Check their docs | NoNot yet |
| Self-hosting | YesCommunity Edition, AGPL | No | YesSelf-hosted, FSL licence | No | No |
No means we didn't find it on their pricing or feature pages on Nov 4, 2026. “Check their docs” means their pages didn't say either way.
What one list changes
Price is the easy part. The bigger difference is that the four jobs stop living in four tabs.
With the stack, a bad morning looks like this: an UptimeRobot email says an app was down at 3am, Sentry has a new error from yesterday's deploy, and Baremetrics shows a failed payment. You connect the dots yourself, per tool, per app.
In BugOtter those are three lines in one list, each with the app's name, sorted by what needs you.
- The next thing that needs you, first: here a new error on /pricing, with how many visitors hit it.
- Fix with agent hands it to Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, with the stack and the context.
- Four jobs, one row: uptime, visitors, revenue and errors for the same week, so a dip has its cause next to it.
Questions none of the four can answer alone
Because the data sits together:
What did that outage cost?
The visitors you'd normally get in those hours, times your usual revenue per visitor. Shown as an estimate, and only when there's enough data.Did the deploy make it worse?
Errors per 100 visits, new error types, response time and paid conversion in the hours after a deploy, against the day before.Who did this error hurt?
For errors from the BugOtter script: the visits that hit it, the paying customers among them, and people who reached checkout and didn't buy.Which post brought customers who stayed?
Revenue by traffic source, from your actual payments, not from events you send.
Your coding agent gets the same view. Connect the BugOtter MCP server once and Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can ask “what's broken across my apps?” and get one answer, instead of you pasting from four dashboards.
When the four-tool stack is better
Moving over, one tool at a time
Run each old tool side by side until you trust the new numbers, then switch it off.
Add your apps
Paste your URLs, or import every project from Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare. Uptime, SSL and domain checks start right away, and each app gets a status page you can turn on. You can run UptimeRobot side by side until you trust it.Swap the analytics script
Replace Plausible's script tag with BugOtter's one line, then import your Plausible CSV export so your charts go back to day one. Details on the Plausible page.Adds the tag and your keys:npx bugotter initPoint your Sentry SDK at BugOtter
Change the DSN, keep your code. Upload source maps withnpx bugotter sourcemaps. What carries over and what doesn't.Connect revenue
A restricted read-only Stripe key, or a Polar, Lemon Squeezy or Creem key. Map each product to an app once. More on the Baremetrics page.
Questions
How much does the usual monitoring stack cost a solo founder?
For 5 apps and about 50k pageviews a month, Plausible Business ($39), UptimeRobot Solo ($10), Sentry Team ($29) and Baremetrics Launch ($75) come to $153 a month at monthly prices, or about $116.50 a month billed yearly. Prices checked Nov 4, 2026 on each tool's pricing page.
Which BugOtter plan fits 5 apps?
Builder: $29 a month or $24 a month billed yearly. It covers 10 awake apps, 200k pageviews and 50k errors a month across all of them, uptime checks every minute, and 1 year of history. Apps you put to sleep don't count.
Can I keep one of my current tools and use BugOtter for the rest?
Yes. Each module can be turned off per account, and nothing breaks if you only use some. A common setup is to keep Sentry for performance tracing and session replay, and move analytics, revenue and uptime to BugOtter.
Is BugOtter as deep as each specialist tool?
No, and it isn't trying to be. Sentry has tracing, profiling and replay. Baremetrics has dunning, cancellation insights and forecasting add-ons. UptimeRobot has SMS and voice-call alerts and 30-second checks. BugOtter covers what a solo founder checks every day, for every app, in one place.
Do I lose my history if I switch?
You can bring analytics history from a Plausible or Umami export. Revenue starts from your current subscriptions and the last 90 days of payments, read from your payment provider when you connect it. Uptime and error history start fresh on BugOtter.
Four tabs to one list.
14 days of everything, no card needed. Plans from $10 a month, billed yearly.