Head to head
Uptrace vs Grafana Cloud
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
25/100 | 60/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #12 | #1 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 77 |
| AI Authority | 10 | 69 |
| Web Authority | 16 | 23 |
| Expert Assessment | 61 | 61 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | From $0.075/GB ingested (Cloud); $39/month self-hosted Starter (up to 50 GB/day) · free tier: Community Edition self-hosted $0 forever (14-day retention); Uptrace Cloud free up to 50 GB and 5,000 timeseries per month; 14-day trial with 1TB and 100k metrics, no credit card | Pro from $19/month + usage (8x5 email support; 13-month metrics retention, 30 days logs/traces/profiles/k6) · free tier: Free, "always free": all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, community support, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6; includes 10k active metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 50 GB profiles, 50k RUM sessions, 100k API + 10k browser synthetic executions, 500 k6 virtual user hours, 3 active users |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (per-GB ingest) for Cloud; tiered subscription for self-hosted; free open-source edition | Freemium plus usage-based metering (platform fee + per-meter usage, with tiered volume discounts) |
| Best for | Mid-size to large engineering teams already standardised on OpenTelemetry with large headcounts relative to data volume, EU data-residency obligations, and the in-house capability to self-host on ClickHouse — especially those running a deliberate cost-reduction migration off Datadog or New Relic. | Engineering-led teams already invested in Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki or self-hosted Grafana who want the same stack managed without re-instrumenting, have at least one person fluent in PromQL/LogQL, and either fit the free tier's 14-day retention or want to tune each cost meter individually instead of paying per-host APM pricing. |
| Avoid if | You need 24/7 vendor support for production incidents, in-region US or APAC hosting, a completed SOC 2 attestation as a procurement gate, a substantial independent reference base, or RBAC/SSO without paying for a self-hosted tier. | You are thinly staffed or non-technical and need turnkey monitoring, need enterprise SSO/granular RBAC/a contractual SLA without justifying $25,000 a year, require 24/7 or phone support on a self-serve budget, need predictable flat-rate budgeting, or need long retention on a free or minimal plan. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Engineering/SRE teams | Startups, SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Public Sector / Federal |
| Founded | — | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Moldova (site footer); EU data centres in Germany and Finland | New York, USA |
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.