Head to head
Chronosphere vs New Relic
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
45/100 | 51/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #7 | #3 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 72 | 70 |
| AI Authority | 25 | 41 |
| Web Authority | 14 | 25 |
| Expert Assessment | 69 | 67 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published · free tier: None disclosed | $0.40/GB beyond the free 100 GB (original ingest); $0.60/GB Data Plus. Core users $49/user; Standard full platform $10 first user then $99/additional user (max 5). The Standard edition list price itself is not published (CTA: 'Get Standard Pricing'). · free tier: 100 GB data ingest/month, one free full platform user, unlimited basic users, 50+ capabilities, 500 synthetic checks, at least 8 days data retention, no credit card required; at 85% of the free ingest you receive an email and onscreen upgrade prompt |
| Pricing model | Custom | Usage-based (data ingest + user seats + Advanced Compute), with a perpetual free tier |
| Best for | Mid-to-large Kubernetes/microservices organisations already standardised on Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, generating high-cardinality metrics, comfortable with PromQL, and facing a renewal shock from a host- or volume-priced incumbent — plus teams with data-residency constraints that benefit from a BYOC pipeline. | Mid-market and enterprise engineering orgs with 5+ engineers consolidating several point tools, especially container/Kubernetes and autoscaling estates, that have a FinOps owner for ingest governance from day one. |
| Avoid if | You are a small team or startup wanting self-serve signup and a visible price, need one vendor spanning RUM, synthetics, security and incident response out of the box, lack PromQL skills, are primarily buying log analytics, or work in procurement that requires published list pricing. | You need a hard spend cap or a published self-serve price, run verbose high-volume low-value telemetry, are a small team just above 100 GB with no negotiating leverage, or need month-to-month flexibility without a ~20% PAYG premium and annual-commit termination terms. |
| Markets | Enterprise, Mid-Market, Cloud-native engineering organisations | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, DevOps/SRE teams, Regulated buyers (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA via Enterprise + Data Plus) |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.