Grafana Cloud alternatives
Every error tracking and observability provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Grafana Cloud's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Grafana Cloud's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Sentryvs Grafana CloudSelf-hostable: Limited vs Supported
- Axiomvs Grafana CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- GlitchTipvs Grafana CloudEntry paid plan: $15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million
- Better Stackvs Grafana CloudEntry paid plan: From $29/month, or $34/month depending on the plan selected; Better Stack advertises both…
- Datadogvs Grafana CloudKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
- Elastic Cloudvs Grafana CloudEntry paid plan: Elastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per mon…
- SigNozvs Grafana CloudFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
- OpenObservevs Grafana CloudKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
Where Grafana Cloud stands against these 8
Grafana Cloud's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 5 of the 8 alternatives that document it have one: Axiom, Better Stack, Datadog, GlitchTip, Sentry.
- What the free plan includes
- 50 GB ingested a month with 14-day retention and community support, described as always free2nd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: Axiom — 500 GB of data loading a month, 10 GB-hours of query compute, 25 GB of storage and 30-day retention, with no…
- Entry paid plan
- $19/month platform fee for Pro, which includes 10,000 active series before usage billing starts2nd cheapest of the 6 that document it. Cheapest: GlitchTip — $15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 million.
- Regions
- 28 region/provider combinations across AWS, GCP and Azure, from US East and EU Germany to UK, India…2nd highest of the 6 that document it. Highest: Elastic Cloud — Hosted: 60 regions across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (also Alibaba Cloud and FedRAMP).
- Retention window
- 13 months for metrics and 30 days for logs, traces, profiles and k6 tests on ProJoint highest of the 5 that document it. Level with: Axiom — 30 days on the free Personal plan; configurable on Cloud rather than fixed.
- Ingest price per GB
- From $0.050 per GB processed, falling to $0.046 above 10,000 GB and $0.044 above 25,000 with automatic volume…Cheapest of the 4 that document it. Next: Datadog — $0.10 per ingested or scanned GB per month for Log Management, billed annually — the same rate on demand.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.