Squadcast vs Bugsnag Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Pro
- Role-Based Access Control
- Custom Integrations via API
- Knowledge Base
- Unlimited Email and Push
- SMS and Voice Notifications (Worldwide)
- Schedules and Escalations
- Incident Notes
- Response Actions
- Basic Event Intelligence
- Incident Watchers
- Tagging and Routing Rules
- Postmortems With Templates
- Automation Rules
- Mobile App (iOS and Android)
Premium
- Stakeholders and Customer User Roles
- 1 Year Data Retention
- Unlimited SMS and Voice Notifications (Worldwide)
- Advanced Escalations
- Delayed Notifications
- Exportable and Editable Incident Timelines
- Service Graph
- Custom Content Templates
- Webforms
- Runbooks
- Incident Workflows
- Outgoing Webhooks
- SLO Tracker
- Status Pages
Enterprise
- Unlimited Data Retention
- Intelligent Alert Grouping
- Auto Pause Transient Alerts
- Past Incidents
- AI-Generated Incident Summaries
- Audit Logs
- Incident Suggestions
- ServiceNow Bidirectional Sync
- Live Call Routing [Add-On]
Free
- 1 user
- Error and performance monitoring
- 7.5K events and 1M spans per month
- 50+ platforms
- 30+ third-party integrations
Select
- Unlimited users
- End-to-end diagnostics
- Basic notifications
Preferred
Popular- Automatic error prioritization
- Stability benchmarks
- Advanced segmentation
- Custom notifications
- SAML single sign-on
- System Metrics (CPU, Memory, Rendering)
Enterprise
- Automatic error assignment
- Premium support
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- Automatic user provisioning via SSO
- Feature flags & experiments
- On premises or SaaS deployment
- Sensitive data management
Squadcast vs Bugsnag FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Squadcast starts lower at $15/mo, compared to $20/mo for Bugsnag.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Bugsnag has a free plan. Squadcast doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Squadcast uses per-seat pricing, while Bugsnag goes with usage-based. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Squadcast: At $15–$24/seat, Squadcast is positioned below PagerDuty and Opsgenie's mid-tier plans, actively targeting cost-conscious engineering teams who find the incumbents overpriced for what they actually use. They're not the cheapest option in the space, but they're pitching value-for-features against the big names rather than racing to the bottom. Bugsnag: At $20–$33/mo starting, Bugsnag is positioning as accessible and dev-friendly — cheaper entry than Sentry's team plans and well below Datadog's error tracking add-on costs. They're clearly going after mid-market product teams who want focused error monitoring without paying for a full observability platform.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Squadcast and Bugsnag and let you know when something moves.