Building tinymon — fair-priced error tracking, waitlist now open

vik — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:02:58 +0000

Error tracking pricing is opaque and escalates fast

I've been looking at the error tracking space and kept noticing the same pattern: the pricing starts reasonable but escalates quickly as you add seats, tiers, and projects.

Entry prices are actually close across the market:

Sentry Team: $26/mo for 50K errors
Datadog Error Tracking: $25/mo for 50K errors
Bugsnag: starts ~$20/mo, popular tier is $33/mo
Rollbar Essentials: ~$16/mo for 25K events

These are all excellent tools. The issue isn't the starting price — it's that costs compound. Per-seat pricing means a 5-person team pays 5x. Event-based pricing means a bad deploy blows up your bill. Tier upgrades gate features you end up needing. By the time you actually use the product, teams I talk to are paying $80–300/month for error tracking on products that haven't proven themselves yet.

So most early teams end up doing one of three things:

Self-hosting Sentry or GlitchTip (operational overhead eats your time)
Using a free tier and crossing their fingers
Skipping error tracking entirely until something catches fire

None of these are good. So I'm building a fourth option — tinymon.

tinymon — $9/month, flat

The pitch is intentionally boring:

$9/month, flat. Not per seat. Not per project. One price, always.
50,000 errors/month. Enough for most pre-revenue products.
Unlimited projects + team members. Invite anyone.
Three lines of code to install. No YAML, no "contact our integration team."
Email + Slack alerts. For new errors only, not noise.

The scope is deliberately tight. No distributed tracing. No RUM. No session replay. Those are genuinely better at Sentry and Datadog — when you need them. tinymon's job is the error tracking basics, done well, at a price that doesn't escalate.

The part I care about most

The tinymon landing page has a line that's unusual for a dev tool:

When you outgrow tinymon, please go use the bigger tools. They're excellent at scale.

That's a real promise, not a rhetorical flourish. tinymon isn't trying to be your forever error tracker. It's trying to be the one you use before you need the full observability platform.

Most "indie vs enterprise" positioning is adversarial — "stop paying enterprise prices," "ditch Sentry," and so on. I don't think that's the right framing. Sentry is a great product. So are the others. They're just not priced for everyone at every stage.

A stepping stone isn't a competitor. It's a complement.

What's next

tinymon.dev is live with a waitlist. The price is $9/month flat — for everyone.

Join the waitlist

If you've ever felt the bill creep on your error tracking, downgraded to save money, or just wanted something predictable and simple — this is for you.

tinymon.dev — join the waitlist