Head to head
Last9 vs Datadog
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
41/100 | 54/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #9 | #2 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 74 | 72 |
| AI Authority | 3 | 52 |
| Web Authority | 14 | 23 |
| Expert Assessment | 72 | 64 |
| 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 | USD $15/host/month (Infrastructure Pro, billed annually; $18 on-demand) · free tier: Infrastructure Free: $0 for up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention, out-of-the-box dashboards, 1,000+ integrations, unlimited user accounts; Feature Flags free below 1M monthly flag configuration requests |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (event-based) with subscription tiers | Usage-based subscription (per host, per GB, per event, per committer, per credit) with a free tier |
| 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. | Cloud-native mid-market and enterprise engineering organisations at reasonably stable scale that are consolidating four or more point tools and have a named FinOps or platform owner to configure ingestion controls, retention filters and Flex tiering from day one — and who will negotiate volume or multi-year discounts. |
| 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. | You have a hard fixed observability budget with no capacity to police consumption, run highly elastic or spiky host/container counts, need self-hosted or air-gapped deployment, are a small team just past 5 hosts needing basic uptime, need the full catalogue on US-FED/GovCloud, or need cheap alerting on long-retention log data. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, SRE and platform engineering | Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, Security engineering, IT operations, US federal (reduced catalogue via US-FED site) |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | New York, NY, United States (address per Trustpilot company profile) |
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.