Head to head
Last9 vs CubeAPM
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
41/100Higher score | 38/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #9 | #11 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 74 | 73 |
| AI Authority | 3 | 5 |
| Web Authority | 14 | 9 |
| Expert Assessment | 72 | 66 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $1,150/month (Pro, includes 1 billion events/month), per two third-party sources · free tier: Free $0 tier advertised as 'Start observing for free. No lock-in'; a third-party source reports up to 100 million events/month, but production caps are UNVERIFIED on any vendor page | $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' |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (event-based) with subscription tiers | Usage-based (per GB ingested), sales-led |
| Best for | Cloud-native teams of 10–100+ engineers on Kubernetes or microservices already emitting OpenTelemetry/Prometheus data, whose Datadog or New Relic bill is driven by host count, seat count or custom-metric cardinality, and who want to buy through AWS/GCP Marketplace or deploy BYOC for data residency. | 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. |
| Avoid if | You are a small team with modest telemetry volume facing a $1,150/month floor, you need long log and trace retention out of the box, your procurement requires a fully published self-service price list, or you want a large statistically robust public review base — or you are actually shopping for a SIEM. | 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. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, SRE and platform engineering | Enterprise, Mid-Market, DevOps/SRE teams |
| 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.