Head to head
Last9 vs Grafana Cloud
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
41/100 | 60/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #9 | #1 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 74 | 77 |
| AI Authority | 3 | 69 |
| Web Authority | 14 | 23 |
| Expert Assessment | 72 | 61 |
| 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 | Pro from $19/month + usage (8x5 email support; 13-month metrics retention, 30 days logs/traces/profiles/k6) · free tier: Free, "always free": all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, community support, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6; includes 10k active metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 50 GB profiles, 50k RUM sessions, 100k API + 10k browser synthetic executions, 500 k6 virtual user hours, 3 active users |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (event-based) with subscription tiers | Freemium plus usage-based metering (platform fee + per-meter usage, with tiered volume discounts) |
| 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. | Engineering-led teams already invested in Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki or self-hosted Grafana who want the same stack managed without re-instrumenting, have at least one person fluent in PromQL/LogQL, and either fit the free tier's 14-day retention or want to tune each cost meter individually instead of paying per-host APM pricing. |
| 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 are thinly staffed or non-technical and need turnkey monitoring, need enterprise SSO/granular RBAC/a contractual SLA without justifying $25,000 a year, require 24/7 or phone support on a self-serve budget, need predictable flat-rate budgeting, or need long retention on a free or minimal plan. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, SRE and platform engineering | Startups, SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Public Sector / Federal |
| Founded | — | 2014 |
| Headquarters | — | New York, USA |
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.