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Comparison

AVEVA PI System vs Grafana

On the evidence we track, Grafana leads this comparison with a composite score of 64/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

AVEVA PI System full profile →Grafana full profile →
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AVEVA PI System9
★Grafana64
Score
Vioscale score
AVEVA PI System9 / 100low · 2%
Grafana64 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tier
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Model
AVEVA PI Systemcommercial
Grafanafreemium
Price level
AVEVA PI System–
Grafanalow
Transparent
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✗
Integrations
Count
AVEVA PI System1
Grafana7
Security
Disclosure policy
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Fedramp
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Gdpr
AVEVA PI System✓
Grafana✓
Iso27001
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Pci
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Scorecard
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana6.8
Soc2
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana1,048
Github stars
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana76,431
Package downloads weekly
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana100,948
Stackoverflow questions
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana14,000
Activity
Commits last 30d
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana100
Release
History
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana20 items
License
Spdx
AVEVA PI System–
GrafanaAGPL-3.0
Language
Primary
AVEVA PI System–
GrafanaTypeScript
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana7 items

Features

The capabilities each product documents. These tools do not share a category taxonomy, so this aligns what each vendor states rather than a normalised feature set.

Declared feature comparison
FeatureAVEVA PI SystemGrafana
Alerting-✓
Apm-✓
Dashboards-✓
Hosting-both
Logs-✓
Metrics-✓
On call-✓
Otel native-✓
Rum-✓
Tracing-✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

AVEVA PI System

A software portfolio that allows industrial organizations to collect, standardize, store, and visualize real-time operational data from diverse equipment and systems, supporting both operational efficiency and IT security requirements.

Independently observed

Grafana

Leader

A full-stack observability platform that ingests telemetry data from multiple sources and provides dashboards, alerting, incident management, and AI-assisted troubleshooting. Supports open standards including OpenTelemetry and can be deployed as a cloud service or self-hosted.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

AVEVA PI System

Pricing not documented yet.

Grafana

Leader
from $0.05/moHybridFree tier

Free forever tier always available. Pro plans from $19/month + usage with volume discounts. Enterprise from $25,000/year with custom terms.

  • FreeFree
    • All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
    • Community support
    • 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 performance tests
  • ProFrom $19/month + usage with automatic volume discounts
    • Everything in Free plan
    • Pay as you go above free tier with volume discounts
    • 8×5 email support
    • 13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, k6 performance tests
    • Adaptive Logs and Metrics cost optimization
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Premium support
    • Custom retention policies
    • Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
    • As low as $3 per 1k series for metrics at scale
    • Custom pricing based on annual commit and volume
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Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
iOS
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Android
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
CLI
AVEVA PI System–
Grafana✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AVEVA PI System✗
Grafana✓
Self-hosted
AVEVA PI System✗
Grafana✓
Hybrid
AVEVA PI System✓
Grafana✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

AVEVA PI System

1 total
  • Databricks
Independently observed

Grafana

Leader
7 total
  • Prometheus
  • Loki
  • Elasticsearch
  • InfluxDB
  • Postgres
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.