Frequently asked questions
Including the ones with answers we would rather not have to give.
Compatibility
Does Parsemend work with my existing Sentry SDK?
Yes. Parsemend implements Sentry's envelope endpoint, the legacy store endpoint, and all three DSN authentication forms. You change the DSN and redeploy; the SDK stays installed. We have verified this end to end with sentry/sentry 4.29.0 for PHP and @sentry/node 10.64.0.
Which Sentry SDKs have you actually tested?
The official PHP SDK and the official Node SDK. Other Sentry SDKs speak the same wire protocol and should work, but we only claim what we have run. If you test another one, tell us and we will list it.
What happens to transactions, logs and cron check-ins?
They are accepted and dropped, with a reason code. Parsemend does not store tracing, logs or check-ins, but it will not reject an envelope that contains them, so your SDK never starts erroring because it sent something we do not keep.
Which request compressions are supported?
gzip, deflate and identity. Brotli and zstd request bodies are rejected with a recorded invalid outcome rather than a 500.
The agent
Will the agent merge code into my repository?
No. The agent opens a draft pull request with the root cause in the description. A human reviews, runs the tests, and merges. There is no setting that lets it merge, and there will not be one.
Does the agent run my tests against its patch?
Not today. Sandboxed fix validation — running your suite against the patch in a container — is the next item on the roadmap. Until it ships the agent reasons about the code rather than verifying it, which is exactly why the pull request arrives as a draft.
What stops it from opening nonsense pull requests?
Two gates. A fixability score decides whether a run starts at all, and a run only begins above the project's threshold. Then every step emits a confidence score; below the threshold the run pauses for a human instead of proceeding from a bad root cause.
Can I edit the plan before it writes code?
Yes. The change plan is a separate step from the patch precisely so you can correct or reject it before a line of code exists. Correcting a plan is cheaper than reviewing a wrong diff.
Privacy and control
Does Parsemend see my source code?
Only in managed mode, where it reads the repository through a GitHub App installation. In bring-your-own-agent and CLI modes your source never leaves your infrastructure. In your-keys mode Parsemend assembles the context bundle and transits it to your model provider without retaining it. Parsemend stores events, not code.
Can I use my own model?
Yes, in three of the four modes: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or any model you serve yourself through Ollama. Managed mode is the exception, because there Parsemend is paying for the tokens.
Can I run the whole thing on my own hardware?
Yes. Parsemend self-hosts as one Laravel application with Postgres and Redis, and in CLI mode the fix run executes on your machine against a local Ollama endpoint. Nothing about that path requires a network call to us.
Pricing
Is error tracking really free forever?
Yes — 5,000 events a month on one project, with no time limit and no credit card. It is not a trial. What it does not include is the fix agent.
Why is every AI feature paid?
Because running the agent costs real money. A free tier that consumed our model tokens would either be rate-limited into uselessness or have to fund itself some other way. Free signups never consume Parsemend's tokens, so the differentiator is never free.
Why are there two bills?
You pay Parsemend a flat fee for the framework, and your model provider bills you directly for inference at their published rate. We never resell inference, so we never have a reason to route your job to a bigger model than it needs. In managed mode the tokens are ours and there is only one bill.
The company
Who builds Parsemend?
One engineer. The ingest pipeline, the fix-run state machine and the agent framework described on this site are all his work. There are no customer logos on this website because there are no customers yet.
What does Parsemend not do?
No tracing, no session replay, no profiling, no log ingestion, no uptime or cron monitoring, and no native symbolication. If you rely on those, Sentry is a better product and the comparison page says so.