New Relic vs. SolarWinds Observability

New Relic

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
New Relic	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	New Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.	$0 No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
SolarWinds Observability	N/A	N/A	SolarWinds Observability is a SaaS offering purpose-built to enable DevOps teams to have unified and correlated end-to-end visibility across the technology stack, from the infrastructure, database and application to the end-user experience. It helps organizations meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and user satisfaction service-level objectives (SLOs). The observability offering helps make it easy to understand and has holistic oversight into service delivery and the individual component…	$60 per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)

Pricing

New Relic

SolarWinds Observability

Free (Forever): $0
No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
Telemetry Data Platform: $0.25
per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
Incident Intelligence: $0.50
per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
Standard: $99
per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
Pro: Contact sales team
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Logs: $60
per year 1 gb at starting at 1 day retention (more retention options*)
Digital Experience Observability - Synthetics: $120
per year Packs of 10 uptime checks
Infrastructure Observability: $180
per year Per Host (Containers 10:1 Host)
Network Observability: $180
per year Per active network device (With an IP address)
Application Observability: $330
per year Application Instance
Database Observability: $840
per year Per physical or virtual database instance

Pricing Offerings
New Relic	SolarWinds Observability
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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*Log retention available in 1, 7, 15, 30, and 60 days (for more than 60 days retention, talk to sales).