Head to head
CubeAPM vs New Relic
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
38/100 | 51/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #11 | #3 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 73 | 70 |
| AI Authority | 5 | 41 |
| Web Authority | 9 | 25 |
| Expert Assessment | 66 | 67 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $0.20/GB/month pay-as-you-go (Pro) — but vendor metadata and G2 listing both state $0.15/GB · free tier: None published; a self-serve sandbox exists at playground.cubeapm.com and every plan CTA is 'Book a Demo' | $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 | Usage-based (per GB ingested), sales-led | Usage-based (data ingest + user seats + Advanced Compute), with a perpetual free tier |
| Best for | Backend-heavy, OpenTelemetry-instrumented engineering orgs running microservices and Kubernetes whose Datadog or New Relic bill has become a board-level line item, or who face data-residency and sovereignty constraints and have the infrastructure to host the platform in their own cloud. | 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 | Your primary need is mobile or browser/frontend monitoring, AIOps-grade automated RCA or LLM/token observability; you have no infrastructure or appetite to self-host (there is no SaaS option, free tier or self-serve checkout); or you require a deep public review history and a firm published price before committing. | 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, DevOps/SRE teams | 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.