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One page per vendor. Each lists where the two differ and where the other tool is ahead, and prices the same month on both at list price. Every vendor claim links to its source and carries the date it was checked.
Comparisons
Open-source, no per-host billing
13 differences · Datadog ahead on 5 Read the comparison vs grafana.comOne platform, nothing to assemble
12 differences · Grafana ahead on 4 Read the comparison vs newrelic.comOTel-native, predictable pricing
12 differences · New Relic ahead on 4 Read the comparison vs dash0.comOpen source and self-hostable
7 differences · Dash0 ahead on 2 Read the comparison vs signoz.ioIssues, session replay, one local binary
11 differences · SigNoz ahead on 4 Read the comparisonSide by side, at list price. The questions your finance team will ask, answered up front.
| Line item | Maple | Datadog | New Relic | Grafana Cloud | Dash0 | SigNoz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per-host fee | None | $15+ / host / mo | Bundled in plan | Bundled in plan | None | None |
| Per-seat fee | None | Enterprise tier | $99–349 / full-user / mo | $8+ / active-user / mo | None | None |
| Ingest pricing | $0.30 / GB ingested | $0.10 / GB + $1.70 / M indexed | $0.40 / GB | $0.45 / GB | $0.60 / M spans or logs | $0.30 / GB · $0.10 / M samples |
| Default retention | 30d default · custom | 15d default | 30d logs · 8d traces | 30d logs/traces · 13mo metrics | Per plan tier | 15d logs/traces · 1mo metrics |
| OpenTelemetry support | Native | Partial (custom agent) | Yes | Yes | Native | Native |
| License | FSL-1.1 → Apache 2.0 | Proprietary | Proprietary | AGPL components | Proprietary | MIT + commercial ee/ |
| Self-host option | Supported | No | No | OSS components | No | Supported |
| MCP / agent surface | First-class | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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