Lampwick vs Flare

We make Lampwick. Here's where each tool is the better pick.

Flare, from Spatie in Belgium, tracks errors, performance and logs for Laravel, PHP and JavaScript. If error workflow and frontend performance matter most, pick Flare. If you want app monitoring plus uptime, certificate, domain and cron checks in one tool, pick Lampwick.

Last reviewed 8 Nov 2026. Competitor facts come from the vendor's own pages, linked in the footnotes.

At a glance

What does a typical app cost?

The sample: 2 Laravel apps, 3M events a month in total, 5 people, 10 uptime monitors with SSL checks.

• Lampwick Pro, €29: 5M events, 5 projects, unlimited seats, 20 monitors every minute, 14 days of history.
• Flare Standard, €29 a month or €319 a year billed yearly, with 30 days of history.¹ (Hobby allows 1 project and 1 user.) Flare counts errors, spans and logs, not events; 3M events likely fit in 20M spans, but we haven't verified how Flare counts them, so check your own volume.
• The 10 monitors need a second tool: Better Stack's free tier (for personal projects)⁶ or Oh Dear Freelance at $55.⁷

Prices exclude VAT; we don't convert currencies.

Topic by topic

Error tracking: Flare wins

In Flare you resolve, snooze and assign errors, add notes, and see errors by user, URL, job and version.⁵ It also catches frontend errors and Core Web Vitals from JavaScript, React, Vue and Svelte.² Lampwick groups exceptions into issues with the stack trace and the users hit, from your server and, with a script tag, from your visitors' browsers. It has no framework SDKs, no source maps and no Core Web Vitals.

Local error pages: Flare wins

Spatie makes Ignition, Laravel's local error page, and spatie/laravel-error-share, which adds a Share button to it without a Flare subscription.⁸ Lampwick has nothing for local development.

Performance and logs: tie

Both show slow routes, queries, outgoing HTTP, traces and searchable logs. Lampwick adds a timeline per request, job or command.

Retention: Flare wins on the lower plans

Flare keeps 30 days on every plan;¹ Lampwick keeps 14 on Pro, 30 on Team and 60 on Business.

Uptime, SSL, domain, DNS and cron: Lampwick wins

Lampwick checks URLs, warns before a certificate or domain expires, watches NS and MX records and alerts when a scheduled task is missed. Flare lists none of these.¹

Status pages and broken links: Lampwick wins

Lampwick has public status pages with incident and maintenance notices, and a daily crawl for broken links and mixed content. Flare lists neither.¹

Alerts: tie

Flare sends to email, Slack, SMS, Discord, Microsoft Teams and webhooks.⁴ Lampwick sends to iOS push, email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams and signed webhooks (alert channels). Flare adds SMS; Lampwick adds push from its iOS app.

MCP: tie

Flare's MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 or a personal token, read-only by default; write scopes let an agent resolve, snooze or assign errors.⁵ Lampwick's MCP server works the same way, OAuth 2.1 with read-only or read & write, or a personal token, and also covers monitors, certificates and cron.

Data location: Lampwick states it

Both are EU companies. We couldn't find where Flare hosts data on its home, pricing or DPA pages.³ Lampwick and the services that see your data (Hetzner, Lettermint) are in the EU.

When to pick Flare instead

• Errors are what you watch most, with assignment, snoozing and notes.
• You need Core Web Vitals or SDKs for React, Vue or Svelte.
• Your alerts must go out by SMS.
• You want 30 days of history on the €29 plan.

Start free, or read how to connect a Laravel app. Also see Lampwick vs Nightwatch and the Nightwatch alternatives.