Choose Grafana Cloud if you need
- SOC 2 or GDPR. We haven't found them on New Relic's website.
At a glance
- Both have a free plan.
- Grafana Cloud's lowest paid plan is Pro at $19 per month, plus usage, as of October 19, 2026.
- New Relic's lowest paid plan is Standard at $10 per month for the first full platform user, then $99 per additional user, up to 5, as of October 20, 2026.
- Both work with Prometheus, Kubernetes and Azure.
- Only Grafana Cloud lists SOC 2 and GDPR.
- Only New Relic lists HIPAA and SSO.
- Both have a public API.
From each tool's own website, checked on the dates below, and from published reviews.
Which to choose
From the facts checked for both tools, not from opinion. A fact we haven't confirmed for one of them is never counted.
Choose New Relic if you need
- Integration with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform or Docker. We haven't found them on Grafana Cloud's website.
- HIPAA or SSO. We haven't found them on Grafana Cloud's website.
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Review New RelicThe facts
- What it does
- Grafana CloudMonitor metrics, logs, traces and profiles on a fully managed observability platform
- New RelicIntelligent Observability resolves issues at scale, before they impact your bottom line
- Free plan
- Grafana CloudYes
- New RelicYes
- Pricing
- Grafana CloudFlat monthly plus usage
- New RelicUsage-based, plus per user
- Paid plans from
What they share
From the platforms and integrations each website lists.
Integrations
Both
- Prometheus
- Kubernetes
- Azure
Only Grafana Cloud
- OpenTelemetry
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Slack
Only New Relic
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Docker
People who switched
Reviewers who say they used one of these before the other.
No reviewer has said they moved between Grafana Cloud and New Relic yet.
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