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Datadog vs New Relic

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATION	DatadogMonitoring	New RelicMonitoring
Monthly billing	$15/moInfrastructure Pro	$10/moStandard
Per year	$180/yr	$120/yr
Billing model	Per person	Usage-based
Free tier	Up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention; other product modules and excess custom metrics are not included	100 GB ingest/month; 1 full-platform user; unlimited basic users; 500 synthetic checks/month; minimum 8-day retention
Additional costs	Price is per host, not per account; containers above the host allocation, custom metrics, logs, APM, profiling, synthetics, RUM, database monitoring, network monitoring and incident tools are separate metered products that can exceed the host fee	Original-data ingest above 100 GB is $0.40/GB or $0.60/GB for Data Plus; EU data region adds $0.05/GB, synthetic checks above allowance are $0.005/check, and extended retention/advanced compute add separate charges
Can you rebuild it?	Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sitting	Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sitting
Free alternatives	OpenObserve HyperDX Coroot +1	OpenObserve HyperDX Coroot +1
Checked on	10/20/2026	10/20/2026
Buy on the official site	Buy View app page	Buy View app page

The free plan compares up to 2 apps. Pro compares up to 4. See plans →

Prices from each app’s latest check; confirm on the official site before buying.