Why teams choose New Relic.
No more tool sprawl. Get all your monitoring needs in one place.
What you can see in Datadog depends on what you’ve bought. Each product is sold and metered separately, so your view across systems ends where your contract does. New Relic includes 50+ capabilities on one platform without product-by-product pricing, so your logs, traces, and infrastructure data are already together when an incident starts.
Fair and flexible pricing so you only pay what matters: your data.
Datadog prices each product on its own meter, by host, by indexed event, by container, by AI credit, so the first quote rarely matches the bill once real usage arrives. New Relic doesn’t charge by host or by indexed log. You pay for the data you send and the users who need full access, with 50+ capabilities included and no separate product SKUs.
Actually useful AI — unrestricted by data siloes.
AI is only as useful as the data it can see. Datadog’s AI reasons over the Datadog products you’ve licensed, so its answers stop where your contract does. New Relic AI works across all the telemetry you send to New Relic, including logs, traces, and infrastructure data in one database. Ask it why performance changed and it can trace the answer across your whole stack.
Side by side.
No contest.
| New Relic | Datadog | |
|---|---|---|
| 800+ integrations across every popular tool and service. | ||
| 50+ observability tools in one with every plan (APM, infra monitoring, real user monitoring, and more). | Every capability included with every Full Platform user. |
Each product priced and metered separately. |
| Predictable usage-based pricing. | One price per GB for each data option, at any scale. |
Overage premiums for volume spikes.* |
| Auto-scaling friendly pricing. | No host-based billing |
Bills per host at near-peak usage, so autoscaling bursts set the bill.* |
| Unlimited containers-per-host included on every plan. | Included on every plan |
Extra charge per container beyond the per-host allotment.* |
| All logs searchable — no indexing premium. | Logs billed twice: once to ingest, again to make them searchable.* |
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| No overage penalties for logs ingestion. | +50% overage premium if monthly volume exceeds contract.* | |
| No host-based billing. | Peak-hour billing for application and infrastructure monitoring.* |
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| 100 GB of data free every month, for all data types (one Full Platform user, unlimited basic users, dashboards, queries, and alerts) | Free tier limited to 5 hosts and 1-day metric retention.* |
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All dollar amounts are in USD. Please contact us to compare New Relic vs. Datadog. Comparisons are for illustrative purposes only, and your actual costs are dependent on many factors such as number of users or compute and ingested data in New Relic. Prices, including ones provided as a promotion, are subject to change.
* 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/