Head to head
Last9 vs New Relic
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
41/100 | 51/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #9 | #3 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 74 | 70 |
| AI Authority | 3 | 41 |
| Web Authority | 14 | 25 |
| Expert Assessment | 72 | 67 |
| 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 | $0.40/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 (event-based) with subscription tiers | Usage-based (data ingest + user seats + Advanced Compute), with a perpetual 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. | 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 | 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 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 | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, SRE and platform engineering | 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.