Raygun Real User Monitoring Pricing 2026: $2.00/1K Sessions + Gotchas
Raygun RUM pricing for 2026. Basic plan is $80/year for 100,000 sessions/month with 60-day retention, the cheapest published commercial RUM in the category. Overage is $0.002 per session ($2 per 1K). 5,000 free trial sessions/month. No session replay product.
The fast facts
| Pricing model | per-session |
| Cheapest paid | $7/mo (Basic (annual $80)) |
| Per 1,000 sessions | $2.00 |
| Per GB ingest | , |
| Per 1,000 replays | , |
| Free tier | 5K sessions/mo (free trial, paid required for production) |
| Session replay | none |
| Retention | 60 days |
| Annual discount | 16% |
| Source | raygun.com/platform/pricing |
The pricing model
Reserved capacity tiers (annual) plus per-session on-demand overage. Cheapest annual plan is $80/yr for 100K sessions/mo.
The cheapest published RUM in the category
Raygun's Basic plan at $80/year for 100,000 sessions/month works out to an effective $0.80 per 1,000 sessions, the cheapest published commercial RUM rate in our 18-vendor matrix. For comparison, Datadog charges $4.50/1K on annual commit (5.6x more), Sentry charges $0.50/1K base rate but has separate overage charges that quickly push the effective rate higher, and even AWS CloudWatch RUM at ~$0.10/1K effective comes with significant implementation overhead.
The catch is that Raygun's overage rate ($0.002 per session, or $2 per 1K) is significantly higher than the in-tier rate. A workload running at 150K sessions/month would be $80/year for the first 100K (in-tier) plus $0.002 × 50,000 × 12 = $1,200/year for the overage. The Team plan ($199/month, covering 1M sessions/month) is the natural upgrade once overage starts to dominate.
Reserved vs on-demand
Raygun splits pricing into reserved capacity (annual commit) and on-demand. The cheapest published rates are on annual reserved tiers; on-demand is more expensive per session. For predictable workloads, the annual commit is dramatically cheaper. For bursty workloads, on-demand avoids over-provisioning.
60-day retention
Raygun publishes 60-day data retention on RUM. Longer retention is available on enterprise contracts but not as a self-service tier. For most operational use cases, 60 days is enough to debug recent incidents and run weekly performance reviews; teams needing longer retention for compliance or historical analysis should expect a sales conversation.
Core Web Vitals alerts gated above Basic
Raygun's automated alerting on Core Web Vitals regressions (e.g., “LCP regressed past 2.5s for more than 5 minutes”) is gated to the Team plan and above ($199/month+). Basic tier customers get the metrics in dashboards but no automated alerts. For teams who want both very cheap baseline pricing and CWV alerting, the gap between Basic and Team is significant.
No session replay product
Raygun captures performance metrics, JavaScript errors with source maps, custom events, and user-session timelines, but does not offer a full visual session replay. If session replay is a hard requirement, Raygun is not the right tool. Pair Raygun with Sentry or Hotjar for replay if the budget allows, or pick LogRocket / Datadog / Dynatrace for an integrated replay-included product.
How Raygun compares
- Versus Sentry, direct competitor on the errors + performance combo. Sentry's free tier is more generous (5K errors + 50 replays vs Raygun's 5K-session trial). Raygun is cheaper at sustained commercial volume (Basic $80/yr is much cheaper than Sentry Team $312/yr annual).
- Versus Datadog RUM, Raygun is 5.6x cheaper per session at the in-tier rate. Datadog has session replay and tighter integration with APM. Raygun wins for cost-conscious teams who don't need replay.
- Versus LogRocket, completely different products. LogRocket is replay-first ($69/mo for 10K sessions, effective $6.90/1K). Raygun is performance + errors first with no replay.
- Versus Cloudflare, Cloudflare is free for Core Web Vitals only. Raygun adds error tracking, custom events, and user-session timelines that Cloudflare does not offer.
When Raygun is the right choice
- You need commercial RUM at the lowest possible cost without going to a free tier.
- You need error tracking + performance monitoring + custom events in one product.
- You can live without session replay (or are willing to pair Raygun with a replay-specific tool).
- You have predictable session volume, Raygun's overage rate punishes burst traffic.
When Raygun is the wrong choice
- You need session replay (Raygun has none).
- Your workload is bursty, overage at $2/1K is 2.5x the in-tier rate.
- You need automated Core Web Vitals alerting on the cheapest tier, Basic doesn't include it.
For very-small-business RUM use cases (under 100K sessions/month), Raygun's Basic plan is the best value in the matrix. See RUM for small business for the full free-vs-cheapest-paid comparison.
Try it in the calculator
The RUM cost calculator includes Raygun alongside 17 other vendors. Enter your monthly page views, session replay coverage, retention, and sampling rate to see how Raygun's pricing compares head-to-head against the alternatives.
Where to go next
- Multi-vendor calculator — estimate Raygun's cost against 17 alternatives at your specific workload.
- Per-session pricing models — how Raygun's pricing model compares structurally to Datadog, Dynatrace, and Raygun.
- Quote-only vendors — the five RUM vendors that don't publish prices and the operational consequences.
- Hidden RUM costs — sampling, retention storage, replay storage, and overage gotchas across the category.
- Methodology — how we verified the Raygun pricing data shown above (verified 2026-06-16).