# Grafana Tempo vs Uptrace

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Grafana Tempo

| Attribute | Grafana Tempo | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 63.6 (58% (medium)) | 57.4 (69% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 5 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 73 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 5,527 | 4,303 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 1,716 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Grafana Tempo is an open-source distributed tracing backend designed for high-scale trace collection using only object storage, integrating with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. It supports industry-standard tracing protocols and eliminates the need for expensive database infrastructure. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/","question":"What is Grafana Tempo?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Grafana Tempo is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $19 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/","question":"Is Grafana Tempo free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Grafana Tempo supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/","question":"What platforms does Grafana Tempo support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Grafana Tempo can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/","question":"Can Grafana Tempo be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Grafana Tempo, including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry and OpenCensus. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/","question":"What does Grafana Tempo integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Grafana Tempo. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Grafana Tempo not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.grafana.com","question":"What security certifications does Grafana Tempo have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Grafana Tempo is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/grafana/tempo","question":"Is Grafana Tempo open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"Full-featured observability backend built on OpenTelemetry standards and ClickHouse. Provides distributed tracing, metrics, and log management with dramatically lower costs than competing platforms through pay-per-gigabyte billing rather than enterprise licensing models. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What is Uptrace?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Uptrace is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.03. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Is Uptrace free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Uptrace. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What platforms does Uptrace support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Uptrace can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Can Uptrace be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 14 integrations for Uptrace, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Vector, FluentBit, CloudWatch, Grafana, GitHub Actions and Slack, plus 6 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What does Uptrace integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Uptrace. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Uptrace not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://uptrace.dev","question":"What security certifications does Uptrace have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Uptrace is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace","question":"Is Uptrace open source?","confidence":0.67},{"answer":"Uptrace is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Where is Uptrace available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source distributed tracing platform that stores trace data using affordable object storage rather than specialized databases, making it simpler and cheaper to operate while integrating with Grafana and other observability tools. | An observability solution that brings together application traces, metrics, and log records into one place. Powered by OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse, it's offered both as a cloud service and for self-hosting, designed to process and analyze large volumes of telemetry at substantially lower cost than competing platforms. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"backend","service_map":true,"otel_support":"ingest","trace_search":true,"multi_protocol":true,"storage_backend":"object storage","high_cardinality":true,"metrics_correlation":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"multi_protocol":true,"storage_backend":"ClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata","high_cardinality":true,"metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"none"}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | 10 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Jaeger"},{"name":"Zipkin"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"OpenCensus"},{"name":"Kafka","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Amazon S3","category":"storage"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage","category":"storage"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure","category":"storage"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Vector"},{"name":"FluentBit"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"AlertManager"},{"name":"WebHook"},{"name":"Google Cloud Auth"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Keycloak"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true},{"name":"Terraform","native":true},{"name":"Tempo","native":true,"category":"tracing"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | Go |
| license.spdx | AGPL-3.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","description":"Grafana Tempo open source (AGPLv3)","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Grafana Cloud Pro","features":["Platform fee includes limited trace retention and usage","30 days retention for traces","8x5 email support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":19,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Grafana Cloud Enterprise","features":["Custom retention","Premium support","Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud)"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25000,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"Open source (free). Grafana Cloud integration from $19/month or $25k/year enterprise.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-01T14:57:40.524Z","startingPrice":{"amount":19,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Usage-based","summary":"$0.075/GB spans/logs (from $0.10/GB, down to $0.016/GB at scale), $0.025 per 1M datapoints for metrics. 50 GB free/month.","features":["Unlimited users, services, and hosts","OpenTelemetry native","Trace, metrics, and log ingestion","High-cardinality attributes","Automatic volume discounts (down to $0.016/GB)","Monthly billing cap","Sampling configuration"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.075,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"datapoints"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay for data ingested; rates decrease with volume","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"metrics_free":"5,000 timeseries/mo","spans_and_logs_free":"50 GB/mo"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Cold Storage retention (beyond 4 weeks, up to 100 weeks)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB-month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"timeseries-month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.075/GB spans/logs, $0.025 per 1M datapoints metrics. 50 GB free/month, automatic discounts at scale.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-14T15:37:57.437Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"datapoints","amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 11 | 11 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 7.4 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://grafana.com/security/hall-of-fame/issue_35/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":3,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fgrafana%2Ftempo&per_page=100","last_12m":3,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fuptrace%2Fuptrace&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Distributed Tracing Tools)

| Capability | Grafana Tempo | Uptrace |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Trace role | Trace backend / store | SaaS platform |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTLP ingest | OTel-native |
| Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP) | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Trace search / filter by attributes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service dependency graph | ✓ | ✓ |
| High-cardinality attribute exploration | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Sampling** |  |  |
| Tail-based / dynamic sampling | - | - |
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | - | None |
| **Correlation** |  |  |
| Correlate traces with metrics/logs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage backend | object storage | ClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T09:27:55.119Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*