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Comparison

InfluxDB vs Prometheus

On the evidence we track, Prometheus leads this comparison with a composite score of 67/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

InfluxDB full profile →Prometheus full profile →
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InfluxDB58
★Prometheus67
Score
vioscaleAI score
InfluxDB58 / 100medium · 68%
Prometheus67 / 100medium · 57%
Pricing
Free tier
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus✓
Model
InfluxDBcommercial
Prometheusopen_source
Price level
InfluxDBlow
Prometheusfree
Transparent
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus✓
Integrations
Count
InfluxDB5,000
Prometheus60
Security
Disclosure policy
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus✓
Gdpr
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus✓
Iso27001
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus–
Scorecard
InfluxDB6.7
Prometheus8.1
Soc2
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus–
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus–
Adoption
Dependent repos
InfluxDB10,935
Prometheus5,467
Github stars
InfluxDB31,759
Prometheus66,366
Package downloads weekly
InfluxDB–
Prometheus11,748,542
Activity
Commits last 30d
InfluxDB1
Prometheus100
Release
Cadence days
InfluxDB13
Prometheus7
History
InfluxDB20 items
Prometheus20 items
License
Spdx
InfluxDBApache-2.0
PrometheusApache-2.0
Language
Primary
InfluxDBRust
PrometheusGo
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
InfluxDB7 items
Prometheus7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for time-series databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Query
Query language (SQL / PromQL / InfluxQL-Flux / Graphite)
InfluxDBSQL
PrometheusPromQL
SQL compatibility
InfluxDBFull SQL
PrometheusNon-SQL
Ingest
Ingest model
InfluxDBPush
PrometheusBoth
Model
Data model
InfluxDBMetrics (labels/tags)
PrometheusMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
InfluxDBRetention policies
Prometheus-
Retention / TTL
InfluxDBAutomatic
Prometheus-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
InfluxDBParquet columnar
PrometheusXOR2 float chunk encoding
Performance
High-cardinality handling
InfluxDBStrong
PrometheusStrong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
InfluxDBDistributed / sharded
PrometheusDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus✓
Deployment
Deployment
InfluxDBSelf-hosted
PrometheusSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
InfluxDB✗
Prometheus✓
Licensing
Licence class
InfluxDBPermissive OSS
PrometheusPermissive OSS

What each one is

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

InfluxDB

A time-stamped data repository engineered to accept high-volume streams of metrics and contextual events, then return query results with minimal latency. Common use cases include infrastructure monitoring, system performance analysis, and real-time business intelligence.

Independently observed

Prometheus

Leader

A pull-based monitoring platform that periodically scrapes metrics from instrumented targets over HTTP and stores them in a time-series database. It provides PromQL for querying metrics and integrates with Alertmanager for rule-based alerting and incident notifications.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

InfluxDB

HybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with usage-based pricing. Enterprise options require quote.

  • InfluxDB Cloud ServerlessFree
  • InfluxDB Cloud DedicatedContact sales
  • InfluxDB ClusteredContact sales
as of verify ↗

Prometheus

Leader
Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
InfluxDB✗
Prometheus✓
macOS
InfluxDB✗
Prometheus✓
Windows
InfluxDB✗
Prometheus✓
Linux
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus✓
CLI
InfluxDB✗
Prometheus✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus✗
Self-hosted
InfluxDB✓
Prometheus✓
On-premise
InfluxDB✗
Prometheus✓

Integrations

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

InfluxDB

2 total
  • MailChimp
  • Telegraf
Independently observed

Prometheus

Leader
65 total
  • Amazon SNS
  • Discord
  • incident.io
  • Jira
  • Mattermost
  • Microsoft Teams
  • OpsGenie
  • PagerDuty
  • Pushover
  • Rocket.Chat
  • Slack
  • Telegram
  • VictorOps
  • Webex
  • WeChat
  • Webhook
  • Email
  • WeChat Work
  • Blackbox Exporter
  • Consul
  • Graphite
  • Memcached
  • MySQL
  • Node Exporter
  • +41 more
Independently observed
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InfluxDB or Prometheus: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

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