Head to head
New Relic vs Dynatrace
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
51/100Higher score | 49/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #3 | #4 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 70 | 82 |
| AI Authority | 41 | 17 |
| Web Authority | 25 | 23 |
| Expert Assessment | 67 | 69 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $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 | $7/mo per host (Foundation & Discovery, billed at $0.01 per host-hour) — a unit rate, not a purchasable entry contract · free tier: 15-day free trial plus a sandbox environment; no permanent free plan |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (data ingest + user seats + Advanced Compute), with a perpetual free tier | Commitment-based usage pricing (Dynatrace Platform Subscription, annual commitment drawn down at rate-card rates) |
| Best for | 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. | Large enterprises running hybrid, multi-cloud and Kubernetes estates that want APM, logs, RUM, synthetics and runtime security consolidated into one commitment, have regulated compliance needs, and benefit from unlimited seats and hourly metering. |
| Avoid if | 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. | You are a startup, SMB or single-app team, need a published self-serve entry price or month-to-month flexibility, have no capacity for a DQL and platform training ramp, or run heavy ad-hoc trace/log exploration on a fixed budget. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, DevOps/SRE teams, Regulated buyers (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA via Enterprise + Data Plus) | Enterprise, Regulated industries, Large hybrid/multi-cloud IT operations |
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| 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.