Head to head
New Relic vs SigNoz
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
51/100Higher score | 46/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #3 | #6 |
| Confidence | High confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 70 | 70 |
| AI Authority | 41 | 17 |
| Web Authority | 25 | 27 |
| 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 | USD $49/month for SigNoz Cloud Teams (shown against a struck-through $199/month), including $49 of usage; $19/month for the first 12 months under the startup programme · free tier: Self-Hosted Community edition has no licence fee (you run the infrastructure); Cloud markets a 'Get Started - Free' trial whose length is not published |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (data ingest + user seats + Advanced Compute), with a perpetual free tier | Usage-based subscription with open-source self-hosted option |
| 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. | Fast-growing startups and mid-market SaaS engineering teams already standardised on OpenTelemetry, spending roughly $200-$3,000/month on telemetry, who want unlimited seats and hosts, published usage rates and the option to self-host later. |
| 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. | Your security review requires audit logs, multi-tenancy or mature fine-grained RBAC today, you need a deep third-party review and analyst evidence base before purchase, you intend to self-host without DevOps capacity, or you need a fixed published price for long-term retention. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, DevOps/SRE teams, Regulated buyers (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA via Enterprise + Data Plus) | Startups, SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, DevOps and platform teams |
| Founded | — | 2021 |
| 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.