New Relic alternatives
Teams leave New Relic over cost: the 100 gb free tier feels generous until a couple of chatty services blow past it, and the real cost is usually the $99-per-full-user charge, not the data. standard caps you at 5 full users, so growing teams get pushed to a quote.
At a 25 hosts, 300 GB/mo, 10 users workload, New Relic runs about $971/mo on list rates. Here is how the alternatives compare on the same workload, cheapest first.
Open-source first: pure per-GB cloud with no host or seat charges, or self-host for free.
Best for: Cost-sensitive teams happy on OpenTelemetry who want predictable per-GB billing or a free self-hosted option.
Pay-as-you-go on top of a small platform fee, with a per-active-user charge to view dashboards.
Best for: Teams already on the Grafana/Prometheus/Loki stack who want it hosted without running it.
The broadest platform, priced per host with every module billed on its own line.
Best for: Teams that want one tool for everything and have a stable, countable host fleet.
Costs use the Growth profile on list rates; change the inputs in the calculator for your own numbers.