New Relic vs Datadog
Side-by-side — pricing, strengths, tradeoffs, and fit.
New Relic
All-in-one observability platform with usage-based pricing.
Datadog
Full-stack observability — metrics, traces, logs, and APM in one platform.
At a glance
Free TierEnterprise
● Established·From $0.30/GB ingested
Free TierEnterprise
● Established·From $15/host/mo
Overview
One-liner
One-liner
All-in-one observability platform with usage-based pricing.
One-liner
Full-stack observability — metrics, traces, logs, and APM in one platform.
Maturity
Maturity
EstablishedMaturity
EstablishedOpen source
Open source
✕ NoOpen source
✕ NoPricing
Free tier
Free tier
✓ Available100GB data/month free, 1 full user
Free tier
✓ AvailableFree tier (limited hosts/retention)
Starts at
Starts at
$0.30/GB ingested
Starts at
$15/host/mo
Model
Model
Usage-based
Model
Usage-based
Enterprise
Enterprise
✓ AvailableEnterprise
✓ AvailableBest for
✓ Best for
Full-stack observability on a budgetGenerous free ingest tier
APM for web appsApplication performance monitoring
✓ Best for
Full-stack production observabilityOne platform for metrics/traces/logs
Teams needing breadth of integrations600+ integrations
Not ideal for
✕ Not for
—
✕ Not for
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Strengths
↑ Strengths
Generous free tier
Full-stack observability
Simple data-based pricing
↑ Strengths
Truly full-stack observability
Huge integration catalog
Powerful dashboards/alerting
Weaknesses
↓ Weaknesses
Per-user costs add up
UI/learning curve
↓ Weaknesses
Expensive at scale
Cost complexity