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Comparison

Blackfire vs New Relic

On the evidence we track, Blackfire 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.

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★Blackfire64
New Relic48
Score
Vioscale score
Blackfire64 / 100medium · 72%
New Relic48 / 100medium · 61%
Pricing
Free tier
Blackfire✗
New Relic✓
Model
Blackfirecommercial
New Relicfreemium
Price level
Blackfiremid
New Reliclow
Transparent
Blackfire✓
New Relic✓
Integrations
Count
Blackfire6
New Relic4
Security
Disclosure policy
Blackfire✓
New Relic✓
Fedramp
Blackfire–
New Relic✓
Hipaa
Blackfire✓
New Relic✓
Iso27001
Blackfire✓
New Relic–
Pci
Blackfire✓
New Relic–
Soc2
Blackfire✓
New Relic–
Reliability
Status page
Blackfire✓
New Relic✓
Market
Availability
Blackfire–
New RelicAvailable worldwide · HQ US

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for apm tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Blackfire✓
New Relic-
Distributed tracing
Blackfire✓
New Relic-
Insight
Service map
Blackfire-
New Relic-
Code / continuous profiling
Blackfire✓
New Relic-
Database monitoring
Blackfire✓
New Relic-
Error analytics
Blackfire-
New Relic-
Real-user monitoring
Blackfire✓
New Relic-
SLO / error-budget tracking
Blackfire-
New Relic-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Blackfire-
New Relic-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Blackfire-
New Relic-
Core
Language agents
BlackfirePHP, Python
New RelicNode.js, Ruby, Go, iOS
Deployment
Hosting
BlackfireCloud only
New Relic-

What each one is

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

Blackfire

Leader

Blackfire is an Application Performance Management platform offering both monitoring and profiling solutions for PHP and Python applications. It helps teams identify performance bottlenecks, optimize code, and prevent production crises with automated profiling and actionable recommendations.

Independently observed

New Relic

End-to-end application performance monitoring and full-stack observability platform with automatic instrumentation, distributed tracing, and intelligent recommendations.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Blackfire

Leader
from €33.25/moSubscription

From €33.25/month (Development, annual) to €158.25/month (Production, annual with 2 months free). Demo environment available; free plan for GitHub Student Developer Pack members.

  • Production€158.25/month billed yearly (2 months free) or €189.90/month
    • Profiling
    • Performance Monitoring
    • Continuous Profiling
    • Alerting
    • Continuous Testing
    • +16 more
  • Development€33.25/month billed yearly (yearly only)
    • Profiling
    • Manual assertions
    • Upsun integration
as of verify ↗

New Relic

from $0.40/moUsage-basedFree tier

From free tier with 100 GB/month. Metered data at $0.40/GB ingest. Core users $49/month, full platform users $349-$418.80/month.

  • FreeFree
    • Access to 50+ capabilities
    • Automatic logs obfuscation
    • No credit card required
  • Standard$10 first full platform user, $99 per additional (max 5), $49/core user, $0.40/GB data beyond 100 GB
    • Ticketed support
    • 2 business days support response SLA
    • SAML single sign-on
    • Unlimited basic users
  • Pro$349/user/year or $418.80/user/month, $49/core user, $0.40/GB data
    • Unlimited full platform users
    • 2-hour critical initial support response SLA
    • Data Plus eligibility
    • Extended data retention
    • Advanced admin capabilities
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Everything in Pro
    • FedRAMP Moderate and HIPAA eligibility
    • Priority ticket routing
    • 1-hour critical initial support response SLA
    • 24/7 dedicated support
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Blackfire✓
New Relic✓
iOS
Blackfire✗
New Relic✓
CLI
Blackfire✓
New Relic✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Blackfire✓
New Relic✓
Self-hosted
Blackfire✗
New Relic✓

Integrations

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

Blackfire

Leader
6 total
  • PHPUnit
  • Symfony Functional Tests
  • Behat
  • GitHub Education
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Upsun
Independently observed

New Relic

4 total
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS ECS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Docker
Independently observed

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