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Sentry vs FASTER
Sentry has 45,707 GitHub stars, 4,965 forks, 2,265 open issues and last shipped yesterday. FASTER has 6,635 stars, 592 forks, 36 open issues and last shipped 17 days ago. Sentry leads on adoption by 589% (45,707 vs 6,635 stars). Sentry is written in Python under a custom or non-standard licence; FASTER is written in C# under MIT. Sentry has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, FASTER 9%. Sentry was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Sentry | FASTER | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 46K | ★ 6.6K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Python | C# |
| Last push | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.0K | ⑂ 592 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Sentry if
- You weight community size — 46K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick FASTER if
- You want the FASTER feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and FASTER fits your workflow better
About Sentry
Users and logs provide clues. Sentry provides answers. What's Sentry? Sentry is the debugging platform that helps every developer detect, trace, and fix issues. Code breaks, fix it faster. Official Sentry SDKs JavaScript Electron React Native Python Ruby PHP Laravel Go Rust Java/Kotlin Objective C/Swift C\ /F\ C/C++ Dart/Flutter Perl Clojure Elixir Unity Unreal Engine Godot Engine PowerShell Resources Documentation Discussions (Bugs, feature requests, general questions) Discord Contributing Bug Tracker Code Transifex (Translate Sentry\!)
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About FASTER
[!IMPORTANT] This repository is no longer actively maintained. We encourage users to look at Garnet — this project evolves FASTER into a full fledged remote cache store with strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, and more. Garnet's storage engine, Tsavorite , is a highly optimized and evolved fork of FASTER. Introduction Managing large application state easily, resiliently, and with high performance is one of the hardest problems in the cloud today. The FASTER project offers two artifacts to help tackle this problem. FASTER Log is a high performance concurrent persistent…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Sentry or FASTER more popular?
Sentry has 45,707 GitHub stars and FASTER has 6,635. Sentry has the larger community by that measure.
Are Sentry and FASTER free?
Both are open source. Sentry has no licence declared in this registry, and FASTER is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Sentry and FASTER?
Sentry is written in Python and FASTER in C#. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Sentry or FASTER?
Choose Sentry if you want the larger community (45,707 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose FASTER if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.