Owlpane / Solutions / vs. New Relic
Moving from another tool · built on OpenTelemetryOwlpane vs. New Relic: both price by data, only one adds per-user fees.
New Relic bills data ingest plus paid full-platform users. Owlpane bills GB ingested only, with no per-seat fee. New Relic is far broader; here is where that matters and where it does not.
Switching, honestly
What you keep, gain and give up
Keep
Your OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Send a copy to Owlpane and keep New Relic while you compare.
Gain
No per-user fee, so engineers, support and managers can all look at the data. Carbon per service and a Kubernetes explorer with actions on the same telemetry.
Give up
Breadth and maturity. New Relic has many more integrations, browser and mobile depth, and enterprise features we do not offer.
What you use
Built from features that ship today
Alert rules
Checked every minute; one message when it fires and one when it resolves.
Alerting & SLOs →
How it works
Three steps
Add an exporter
Add one exporter to your OpenTelemetry Collector and your current tool keeps receiving everything it does today.
Compare
Run both on the same service for a week.
Decide
Nothing proprietary to undo either way.
Side by side
What each one charges for
| New Relic (public list, 2026) | Owlpane | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 100 GB ingest a month, one free full-platform user | 10 GB a month, sampled above and stopped at 20 GB |
| Data | $0.40 per GB beyond 100 GB (Standard and Pro), $0.60 with Data Plus | Team is $29 including 50 GB, then $0.35 per GB and $0.25 past 1 TB |
| People | Full-platform users are priced per user, by edition; basic users are view-only | No per-seat fee |
| What you forecast | GB ingested plus the number of full users | GB ingested |
New Relic figures come from public pricing summaries in September 2026; confirm on newrelic.com/pricing. Its free tier is larger than ours, so compare on your own volume and team size. New Relic pricing · Estimate Owlpane with the cost calculator
Questions
Does Owlpane charge per user?
Where Owlpane is narrower
- Fewer integrations, and thinner browser and mobile monitoring.
- No per-user pricing model to mirror, but also no enterprise procurement track record yet.
Comparisons reflect publicly available information as of September 2026 and our own product today, and may change. Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Dash0, Better Stack, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS, Sentry, Dynatrace, Kubeshark, Checkly, PagerDuty, SigNoz, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and other names are trademarks of their respective owners; Owlpane is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Send a copy of your telemetry. Change nothing else.
Standard OpenTelemetry in, so you can try Owlpane beside what you run today.
Every new workspace starts with a 14-day Team trial: 50 GB of ingest a month and 30-day retention. No card to start. Documentation · Pricing · Pricing questions