Verdicts
Every verdict names a pick, an alternative and when it wins, what to avoid, the traps at the version tested, and who verified it. Nothing here is served past its recheck date without a flag.
Bugsink 2.5.1 or GlitchTip. Both take Sentry SDK events, so you change the DSN and nothing else, and both run in a few hundred megabytes: GlitchTip documents 512 MB RAM recommended and 256 MB for the all-in-one setup. Self-hosted Sentry is the same protocol at a different scale, asking for 4 CPU cores, 16 GB RAM plus 16 GB swap, and 20 GB of disk, with no guarantees and no dedicated support.
alternatives · verified 2026-09-08 · recheck 2027-01-06For plain API reference, Context7 still has the widest index (9,000+ libraries) but scores 16.8% overall on the DevDex benchmark (46.6% docs, 0.8% repos, 2.9% issue-to-fix) and cut its free tier to 1,000 calls a month in January 2026. Firecrawl's developer index (63.1%) and Mintlify's search index (54.6%) cover issues and repos too. Docfork shut down on 2026-06-14; remove it from any config.
alternatives · verified 2026-09-08 · recheck 2027-01-06Umami v3.3.1 if you want to self-host: MIT, one Node process against Postgres 12.14 or newer, and the script is under 2 KB. Plausible Community Edition is AGPLv3 and the calmer product, but it ships as a long term release twice a year and holds funnels, user journeys, ecommerce revenue goals, SSO and the Sites API back for the paid cloud. PostHog gives you far more than page views and says self-hosted deployments are officially unsupported.
alternatives · verified 2026-09-08 · recheck 2027-01-06