# Scout APM Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Scout APM Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Scout APM

## What is Scout APM?

Scout Monitoring is the all-in-one monitoring platform built by developers, for developers on Ruby, Python, PHP, and Elixir. With error monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), and log management in one simple tool, Scout helps you catch bugs, track performance, and make sense of logs fast, helping you spend less time debugging and more time building a great product. Quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve performance problems – memory bloat, N+1 queries, slow database queries, and more – with an agent that instruments the dependencies you need at a fraction of the overhead. From deploy to insights in 5 minutes.

## What is Scout APM used for?

[Server Management](https://www.capterra.com/server-management-software/)[Application Performance Management](https://www.capterra.com/application-performance-management-software/)

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Overall rating

Based on 4 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

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Starting price

$161

Flat Rate, Per Month

Free trial  
available

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Scout APM

4.8 (4)

VS.

[4.6 (255)](https://www.capterra.com/p/172323/ManageEngine-Applications-Manager/reviews/)

Starting Price

$161

Flat Rate, Per Month

Starting Price

$395

Flat Rate, Per Year

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

5.0 (2)

Ease Of Use

4.6 (255)

Value For Money

5.0 (2)

Value For Money

4.7 (216)

Customer Service

5.0 (2)

Customer Service

4.7 (250)

## Scout APM alternatives

[4.7 (343)](https://www.capterra.com/p/168192/Site24x7/reviews/)

Starting price

$10.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

97%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.5 (195)](https://www.capterra.com/p/118128/New-Relic/reviews/)

Starting price

$10.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

92%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.6 (254)](https://www.capterra.com/p/21581/PRTG-Network-Monitor/reviews/)

Starting price

$179.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

95%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

Highest Rated

[4.9 (55)](https://www.capterra.com/p/186876/Obkio/reviews/)

Starting price

$499.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

100%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

## Pricing

Value for money

5.0 (2)

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$161.00

Flat Rate,Per Month

It includes:

-   Alerting
-   Daily Digest Emails
-   Github Integration
-   Background Job Monitoring
-   Detailed Transaction Traces
-   Deploy Tracking
-   Slow Query Database Monitoring

Plus

$249.00

Flat Rate,Per Month

It includes:

-   Alerting
-   Daily Digest Emails
-   Github Integration
-   Background Job Monitoring
-   Detailed Transaction Traces
-   Deploy Tracking
-   Slow Query Database Monitoring

Pro

$499.00

Flat Rate,Per Month

It includes:

-   Alerting
-   Daily Digest Emails
-   Github Integration
-   Background Job Monitoring
-   Detailed Transaction Traces
-   Deploy Tracking
-   Slow Query Database Monitoring
-   Dedicated Account Manager
-   SAML Support

Value for money

5.0 (2)

5.0

Based on 2 reviews

## Integrations

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Slack](https://www.capterra.com/p/135003/Slack/)

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

5.0 (2)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

5.0 (2)

5.0

Based on 2 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.8

Based on 4 reviews

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5(3)

4(1)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

Casey R.

Co-Founder

Computer Software

### "Should have switched over from New Relic sooner"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

January 14, 2019

Scout helped us save money on APM, and our developers have found it much easier to use. We spend less time doing dev / ops and more time coding.

Pros

Scout has been a breath of fresh air after coming from the world of New Relic. We're paying ~40% less than we were with New Relic, and Scout has made our dev team more effective, as the most common sources of performance issues are surfaced right on the Scout dashboard, so we don't have to toggle back and forth through countless charts to find the issues.

Cons

The one downside of Scout is that they don't do everything -- they've decided just to focus on APM and do that extremely well, so they don't have the same breadth as New Relic. That being said, Scout integrates well with Sentry, and using a combination of the two has still been significantly cheaper than New Relic, and I think both Scout and Sentry's solutions are better than New Relic, so for us it was well worth the switch.

Review source

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KC

Kyle C.

Co-founder

### "Best APM tool for finding \*and fixing\* performance bugs in your application code"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

August 8, 2017

Pros

Easy to setup, easy to use. Nice email updates about performance changes day-to-day. Integrates into local apps as well, helping avoid deployment of performance issues. And a great support team!

Cons

The free tier restricts the duration of data access. Makes sense for their business (and I'm glad they even have a free tier), but it does make it tougher to track performance over longer time horizons.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Nicholas R.

Co-founder & CTO

Computer Software

### "Amazing, easy to use product"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

0.0

0.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

October 24, 2014

Using Scout has been great. It allows us easily monitor server resources without any hassle. It takes no time to set up and gives me the peace of mind that things are falling over. I absolutely recommend Scout.

Pros

\- Plugin library to extend functionality - Super functional out of the box - Easy to use - Amazing and friendly support

Cons

\- UI could use a face-lift

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

MI

Mike

### "very flexible and powerfull"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

0.0

0.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

February 6, 2013

Like a good Linux tool, Scout's plugin system makes it endlessly flexible. With a bit of Ruby, I can quickly gather the metrics I need, view them on charts and dashboards, and get alerted when metrics head into bad territory

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

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