Head to head
OpenObserve vs Last9
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
42/100Higher score | 41/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #9 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 70 | 74 |
| AI Authority | 16 | 3 |
| Web Authority | 18 | 14 |
| Expert Assessment | 63 | 72 |
| 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 | $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 |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (per GB ingested and queried) plus free open-source and free self-hosted enterprise tier; quote-only enterprise | Usage-based (event-based) with subscription tiers |
| 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 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Platform/SRE teams, Startups, Non-profits and education (discounted) | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Cloud-native engineering teams, SRE and platform engineering |
| Founded | 2022 | — |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA (corporate address: 3000 Sand Hill Rd, Building 1, Suite 260, Menlo Park, CA 94025) | — |
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.