Comparison

Sentry vs Tideways

Sentry and Tideways both land on Depends.

Sentry

Depends

Confidence: Low

Evidence is thin, but buy it if you ship software and need error tracking plus performance monitoring, especially if self-hosting matters.

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Tideways

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if you run PHP in production and want deep profiling without enterprise APM pricing.

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Sentry versus Tideways
Compare	Sentry	Tideways
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Software teams shipping code	PHP production teams
Who it's not for	Non-technical teams with no developers	Non-PHP stacks . Node, Python, .NET, Ruby
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^³	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹⁶
Support quality	No support evidence in sources	Vendor claims increased support investment; thin user evidence
Public sentiment	Sources reviewed are directory listings and privacy-policy mentions, not independent user reviews.^¹	PHP developers on Reddit and AWS Marketplace describe Tideways as an easy profiler that surfaces solid insights on slow Magento and PHP apps.¹¹
Biggest gotcha	Guess: event-volume pricing can spike costs for high-traffic apps^¹	Request-based billing means traffic spikes inflate your monthly invoice¹⁵

Pick Sentry when

Software teams shipping code
Teams needing self-hosted monitoring
Apps needing distributed tracing
Privacy-sensitive products needing root cause analysis

When Sentry is not a fit

Non-technical teams with no developers
Simple websites needing only basic analytics
Buyers demanding transparent self-serve pricing
Anyone unwilling to instrument their code

Pick Tideways when

PHP production teams
Magento and Shopware stores
Teams leaving New Relic
Hosts bundling profiling for customers

When Tideways is not a fit

Non-PHP stacks . Node, Python, .NET, Ruby
Hobby sites with no real traffic to profile
Buyers who need fixed, predictable monthly bills
Orgs wanting full-stack APM beyond PHP

Sources

Sentry company profile · SOTA2sota2.com
review
Sentry · Shipyard HQshipyardhq.dev
review
Sentry Docs Security pagedocs.sentry.io
official
How ProvePrivacy Ensures Top-Tier Security for Your Dataproveprivacy.com
news
Impressum | ANNEAannea.ai
news
Other Services - Exosphereexosphere.app
official
awesome-php curated listgithub.com
review
Tideways Reviews - G2g2.com
review
Tideways Pricing 2026 - G2g2.com
review
AWS Marketplace: Tideways APM Reviewsaws.amazon.com
review
Performance issues - Reddit r/Magentoreddit.com
review
Tideways vs New Relic - Reddit r/PHPreddit.com
review
Tideways homepagetideways.com
official
Tideways Pricingtideways.com
official
Request-Based Pricing and Upgrade Policysupport.tideways.com
official
Security - Tidewaystideways.com
security