Head to head
OpenObserve vs SigNoz
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
42/100 | 46/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #6 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 70 | 70 |
| AI Authority | 16 | 17 |
| Web Authority | 18 | 27 |
| Expert Assessment | 63 | 69 |
| 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 $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 (per GB ingested and queried) plus free open-source and free self-hosted enterprise tier; quote-only enterprise | Usage-based subscription with open-source self-hosted option |
| 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. | 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 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. | 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, Platform/SRE teams, Startups, Non-profits and education (discounted) | Startups, SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, DevOps and platform teams |
| Founded | 2022 | 2021 |
| 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.