Head to head
OpenObserve vs Datadog
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
42/100 | 54/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #2 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 70 | 72 |
| AI Authority | 16 | 52 |
| Web Authority | 18 | 23 |
| Expert Assessment | 63 | 64 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Cloud Professional (Pay As You Go): $0.50 per GB ingested and $0.01 per GB queried · free tier: Open Source self-hosted free forever (unlimited users, dashboards, alerts, logs, metrics, traces, RUM, session replay, error tracking); Self-Hosted Enterprise free up to 50 GB/day including SSO, RBAC, federated search, audit trail and sensitive data redaction; 14-day Cloud free trial with no credit card | USD $15/host/month (Infrastructure Pro, billed annually; $18 on-demand) · free tier: Infrastructure Free: $0 for up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention, out-of-the-box dashboards, 1,000+ integrations, unlimited user accounts; Feature Flags free below 1M monthly flag configuration requests |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (per GB ingested and queried) plus free open-source and free self-hosted enterprise tier; quote-only enterprise | Usage-based subscription (per host, per GB, per event, per committer, per credit) with a free tier |
| Best for | Engineering-led teams of roughly 20–300 with large log and trace volume and a real Datadog/Splunk/Elastic bill problem, already emitting OpenTelemetry, who want to start free self-hosted under 50 GB/day and value unlimited seats for org-wide observability access. | Cloud-native mid-market and enterprise engineering organisations at reasonably stable scale that are consolidating four or more point tools and have a named FinOps or platform owner to configure ingestion controls, retention filters and Flex tiering from day one — and who will negotiate volume or multi-year discounts. |
| Avoid if | You are a regulated enterprise needing a deep reference base and vendor-diligence evidence, need a firm published enterprise price for a business case, are planning multi-year on a free self-hosted entitlement, require mature APM depth and heavyweight 24/7 support from a large vendor, or cannot control query volume under per-GB query billing. | You have a hard fixed observability budget with no capacity to police consumption, run highly elastic or spiky host/container counts, need self-hosted or air-gapped deployment, are a small team just past 5 hosts needing basic uptime, need the full catalogue on US-FED/GovCloud, or need cheap alerting on long-retention log data. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Platform/SRE teams, Startups, Non-profits and education (discounted) | Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, Security engineering, IT operations, US federal (reduced catalogue via US-FED site) |
| Founded | 2022 | — |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA (corporate address: 3000 Sand Hill Rd, Building 1, Suite 260, Menlo Park, CA 94025) | New York, NY, United States (address per Trustpilot company profile) |
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.