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Grafana vs New Relic
Plans read from both vendors' own pricing pages, with the same seats and billing applied to each. New Relic is a verified alternative to Grafana: it does the same main job for a similar customer.
Grafana Cloud is an AI-powered observability platform built on open standards that unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data. It supports full-stack observability and integrates with existing tools without requiring rip-and-replace, offering features like AI assistant, adaptive telemetry for cost optimization, and incident response management.
- Starting price
- From $19/mo, free plan available
- Price clarity
- Price clarity grade C, 65 out of 100 65 of 100
- Category
- Developer tools
- Platforms
- Not confirmed
- Good fit for
- Personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups. Companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements needing premium support and custom retention
- Limitations
- Free tier has limited usage and 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and performance tests. Enterprise plan requires a minimum spend commitment of $25,000 per year
New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates telemetry across the entire stack to isolate root causes and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). It offers a complete observability toolkit including application performance monitoring, digital experience monitoring, AI and agentic monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, log management, and security features.
- Starting price
- Free plan
- Price clarity
- Price clarity grade B, 75 out of 100 75 of 100
- Category
- Developer tools
- Platforms
- Cloud-based platform providing full-stack observability with AI-driven operations at scale.
- Good fit for
- Product managers, engineers, and executives who need shared performance dashboards or alert-status visibility.
- Limitations
- Free tier includes 100 GB data ingest per month; exceeding this limit requires upgrading to a paid plan or data ingestion will cease until the next month.
What each one costs your team
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| Tool / plan | Monthly | Per year | What this assumes |
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FreeCheapest fit Flat subscription | $0 | $0 | Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider. |
Pro Flat subscription | $19 | $228 |
Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Published as a starting price. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider. |
Enterprise Flat subscription | $2,083.33 | $25,000 |
Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Published as a starting price. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider. |
FreeCheapest fit Flat subscription | $0 | $0 | Automatically extracted from the linked pricing source. Seat allowances, usage limits, taxes and terms are not confirmed — check them with the provider. |
Grafana
Best fit
Personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups; Companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements needing premium support and custom retention
Trade-offs
Free tier has limited usage and 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and performance tests; Enterprise plan requires a minimum spend commitment of $25,000 per year
Integrations / export
Not confirmed
New Relic
Best fit
Product managers, engineers, and executives who need shared performance dashboards or alert-status visibility.
Trade-offs
Free tier includes 100 GB data ingest per month; exceeding this limit requires upgrading to a paid plan or data ingestion will cease until the next month.
Integrations / export
Offers over 800 pre-built integrations for comprehensive observability.
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