Head to head
Last9 vs Middleware
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 | #10 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 74 | 73 |
| AI Authority | 3 | 5 |
| Web Authority | 14 | 16 |
| Expert Assessment | 72 | 55 |
| 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 | Pay As You Go — $0.30 per GB (logs, metrics and traces), per G2 vendor-supplied listing · free tier: Unresolved — vendor terms name a 'Free' plan, G2 states there is no permanent free plan but a free trial exists, Capterra lists a free version; a vendor blog cites a 14-day free trial with unlimited ingestion |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (event-based) with subscription tiers | Usage-based |
| 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. | Small to mid-size, Kubernetes-heavy engineering and DevOps teams with high telemetry volume who are being priced out of host-based billing, want one bill for logs, metrics and traces, and can tolerate a young vendor with a thin peer-review base. |
| 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 need a contractual uptime SLA with credits, verified SOC 2/ISO compliance, long-term retention or on-prem data residency without an enterprise negotiation, deep peer validation before standardising, or non-English support coverage. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, SRE and platform engineering | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, DevOps 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.