The cost problem
Sentry team plan: $26/user/month. Datadog: $15/host/month minimum. LogRocket: $99/month. For a bootstrapped founder at $500 MRR, these numbers are absurd.
Free tier options (genuinely useful)
ProdFix free: 3 projects, 250 AI analyses/month, error + UX + performance + security. This is enough for most pre-revenue and early-revenue projects. No credit card, no time limit.
When to upgrade ($13-32/mo)
Upgrade when: you have more than 3 projects, you need more than 250 AI analyses per month, or you want team collaboration. ProdFix Starter is $13/mo at launch pricing — less than a Sentry free tier equivalent.
What you shouldn't skimp on
Free error monitoring is fine. Free alert delivery is fine. The one place cheap monitoring costs you is in the AI analysis quality — if your tool gives you stack traces but no root cause analysis or fix suggestions, you're still doing all the debugging work yourself.
ProdFix's model
ProdFix is free for small projects and scales with your business. The pricing is designed around the indie hacker reality: $0 when you're building, affordable when you're earning.
Stop flying blind in production.
ProdFix gives you error monitoring, performance tracking, security alerts, and AI-powered fixes — built for solo founders and vibe coders. One SDK, 2-minute setup.