# What Claude (Anthropic) with web search answered for application performance monitoring (agencies) on 2026-09-25

## In short

On 2026-09-25, Claude (Anthropic) with web search was asked "best application performance monitoring for agencies". It named 11 brands; the first six, in order, were Sentry, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, Better Stack and Raygun.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Question | best application performance monitoring for agencies |
| Asked on | 2026-09-25 |
| Engine | Claude (Anthropic) with web search |
| Model | claude-opus-5 |
| Brands named | 11 |
| Sources cited | 11 |
| Audience | agencies |
| Coverage | Coverage: Claude (Anthropic) with web search. Other engines not included. |
| Last verified | 2026-09-25 |

Page: https://bikoosh.com/answers/s/application-performance-monitoring-agencies-2026-09-25
Coverage: Claude (Anthropic) with web search. Other engines not included.

## The answer, as recorded

Asked on 2026-09-25 through Claude (Anthropic) with web search (model claude-opus-5).

> Searched - here's what I'd actually recommend. The key wrinkle for agencies isn't features, it's **account structure**: you need per-client isolation, sane cost when a client project is small or dormant, and a clean handoff if the client takes the app in-house. That reshuffles the usual APM ranking a lot.
> 
> **1. Sentry - my default pick for most agencies.** Errors, traces, session replay, release health, all keyed to the code your team wrote. Paid plans have unlimited users, so you're not paying per developer across a rotating bench, and each client gets its own project (or its own org, which you can transfer wholesale at handoff). Team is ~$26/mo, Business ~$80/mo, usage-billed on top; the free tier is real. If your agency builds web/mobile apps for clients, start here. ([Sentry pricing breakdown](https://costbench.com/software/developer-tools/sentry/), [Datadog vs Sentry](https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/datadog-vs-sentry/))
> 
> **2. New Relic - best when you also own the infrastructure.** 100 GB/month ingest and one full-platform user free, forever, then ~$0.30-0.35/GB and $49/user/mo Standard. For an agency, the ingest-based model is the right shape: dormant client app

## Brands named, in the order the engine gave

| Position | Brand | How it was named |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sentry | mentioned |
| 2 | Datadog | compared |
| 3 | New Relic | mentioned |
| 4 | Grafana Cloud | mentioned |
| 5 | Better Stack | mentioned |
| 6 | Raygun | mentioned |
| 7 | WordPress | mentioned |
| 8 | Pulsetic | mentioned |
| 9 | Dotcom-Monitor | mentioned |
| 10 | Monitor | mentioned |
| 11 | Uptimeify | mentioned |

## Sources the engine cited

- https://costbench.com/software/developer-tools/sentry/ (other)
- https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/datadog-vs-sentry/ (vendor)
- https://monitoringcost.com/new-relic-pricing (other)
- https://monitoringcost.com/free-monitoring-tools (other)
- https://cubeapm.com/blog/grafana-cloud-pricing-and-review/ (other)
- https://performance.qa/blog/apm-tools-compared/ (other)
- https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/datadog-vs-newrelic/ (vendor)
- https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/datadog-vs-new-relic/ (other)
- https://pulsetic.com/white-label-website-monitoring/ (vendor)
- https://www.dotcom-monitor.com/features/white-label/ (vendor)
- https://uptimeify.io/features (vendor)

The question page: https://bikoosh.com/answers/q/application-performance-monitoring/agencies

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