Why teams choose New Relic.
No more tool sprawl. Get all your monitoring needs in one place.
Datadog's monitoring suite is siloed. Product SKUs have separate telemetry platforms making it difficult to correlate performance trends across your systems.
New Relic eliminates silos across data, tools, and teams with 50 plus capabilities in a single, unified experience across all your systems—so you can focus on resolving incidents fast.
Fair and flexible pricing so you only pay what matters: your data.
Datadog's pricing includes hidden costs that can explode to 100x more than what you originally budgeted. New Relic has no indexed data premium fees, no product dependency chains, and no new charges per host restart.
With New Relic, you pay for the data you track, not the product features you need. Our pricing includes every capability, so you're only ever paying for what you need.
Actually useful AI — unrestricted by data siloes.
AI is limited by the data it can access. Since telemetry data is siloed, Datadog AI's use cases can be narrow.
New Relic AI has access to all telemetry data across your system. You can ask it to correlate system performance trends, set alerts on leading indicators of incidents, and help map dependencies in the case of failures.
Side by side.
No contest.
| New Relic | Datadog | |
|---|---|---|
| 780+ integrations across every popular tool and service. | ||
| 30+ observability tools in one with every plan (APM, infra monitoring, real user monitoring, and more). | Buy what you need. |
Forced product dependencies. Pricing varies by product and plan.* |
| Predictable usage-based pricing for up to 3x more value. | Pay one predictable price per GB, no matter the scale. |
Overage premiums for volume spikes.* |
| Auto-scaling friendly pricing. | Each host restart creates new charge (10-100x cost).* |
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| Unlimited containers-per-host included on every plan. | Additional cost per container beyond agent monthly limit.* |
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| All logs searchable — no indexing premium. | Pay 3-10x more to make logs searchable.* |
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| No overage penalties for logs ingestion. | +50% overage premium if monthly volume exceeds contract.* | |
| No peak usage billing for data. | Highwater mark billing for application and infrastructure monitoring.* |
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| 100 GB of data free every month for all data types forever (unlimited dashboards, queries, and alerts). | 14-day free trial available.* |
More people
prefer New Relic.
has us open.
Get up to 5x the value with New Relic.
- Only pay for what you use.
- Users and data, not tools.
- Actual—not peak—usage.
- No overages or penalties.
The data speaks for itself—the value provided to customers is clear.
Trusted by customers across industries.
All dollar amounts are in USD. Please refer to Side-by-Side Comparison and the linked spreadsheet for additional details and assumptions regarding cost-savings calculations. Comparisons are for illustrative purposes only, and your actual costs are dependent on many factors such as number of users and ingested data in New Relic. Prices, including ones provided as a promotion, are subject to change. The relative value calculations in these tables are based upon the additional New Relic users and data that could be purchased with the cost savings reflected in these scenarios. The New Relic data ingest cost (standard retention) was updated on May 8, 2022, based on ingest pricing updates. The percentage of basic users increased to 30% based on updated averages.
* Companies shown are New Relic customers. They are not affiliated with Datadog, and are not a part of any side-side comparison between Datadog and New Relic.
* See Datadog pricing docs for comparison information: https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/billing/pricing/