OpenObserve alternatives
Every error tracking and observability provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers OpenObserve's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from OpenObserve's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Grafana Cloudvs OpenObserveKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Sentryvs OpenObserveKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial · Self-hostable: Limited vs Supported
- Axiomvs OpenObserveKind of free offer: Always free vs Free trial
- GlitchTipvs OpenObserveKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Better Stackvs OpenObserveKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial
- Datadogvs OpenObserveEntry paid plan: $15 per host per month for Infrastructure Pro, the entry paid product. Datadog prices per…
- Elastic Cloudvs OpenObserveEntry paid plan: Elastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per mon…
- SigNozvs OpenObserveEntry paid plan: $49/month for Teams, and the $49 is usage credit rather than a fee on top — SigNoz bills…
Where OpenObserve stands against these 8
OpenObserve'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
- No. 6 of the 8 alternatives that document it have one: Axiom, Better Stack, Datadog, GlitchTip, Grafana Cloud, Sentry.
- Regions
- Four OpenObserve Cloud regions: US West 2 (California, Azure), US East 2 (Ohio, AWS), EU Central 1…4th 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
- Included rather than priced: 15 months for metrics and 30 days for logs, traces, RUM and everything else, at…Joint 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
- $0.50 per GB ingested, quoted with a 30% annual-commitment discount already applied4th cheapest of the 4 that document it. Cheapest: Grafana Cloud — From $0.050 per GB processed, falling to $0.046 above 10,000 GB and $0.044 above 25,000 with automatic volume…
- Query price
- $0.01 per GB queried, billed separately from ingest3rd cheapest of the 3 that document it. Cheapest: Elastic Cloud — No separate query meter on Serverless Observability: billing is ingest plus retention only, with egress 50 GB…
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.