Backtrace vs Crashpad
Backtrace
backtrace.io
Crashpad
chromium.googlesource.comSide by side
| Figure | Backtrace | Crashpad |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $50/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Spec score · Game Crash Reporting Software | 8.7 (#9) | 8.7 (#10) |
| Purpose | Backtrace manages cross-platform crashes and exceptions for software development, support, and QA teams. | Crashpad is a library for capturing, storing, and transmitting postmortem crash reports from an application to a collection server. |
| Security | Sauce Labs documentation says Backtrace uses TLS for data in transit and offers 256-bit AES encryption at rest as an Enterprise feature. | The handler reads client address spaces through accessors designed to check pointer validity and enforce access bounds. |
Plans
Backtrace
- DeveloperFree
- Standard — Mobile$600 a year
- Standard — Mobile and PC$900 a year
- Standard — Mobile, PC, Game Consoles, and Servers$1,200 a year
- ProfessionalPriced on request
In their own words
Crashpad
Crashpad is an open-source crash-reporting system and client library for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It embeds in an application, where a handler snapshots a registered process after a crash, saves a dump, and can send it to a collection server configured by the embedding client. Applications can also request process-state dumps on demand for diagnostics. Reports use the Windows minidump format with Crashpad extensions and generally contain loaded modules, thread registers and stack memory, selected operating-system state, and memory referenced by registers and stacks. Applications can add key/value annotations, application-specific metadata, and custom minidump streams. Uploads use HTTP or HTTPS through the Breakpad wire protocol, with a documented limit of one upload per hour and failed uploads aborted. The design requires applications to obtain and honor consent because process memory may contain sensitive data. Crashpad is a client-side component; a processor is planned without a completion timeline.