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Comparison

Kamon vs New Relic

No leader: the top candidate Kamon has only 0.21 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Kamon54
New Relic46
Score
vioscaleAI score
Kamon54 / 100low · 21%
New Relic46 / 100medium · 67%
Pricing
Free tier
Kamon✓
New Relic✓
Model
Kamonfreemium
New Relicfreemium
Price level
Kamonhigh
New Reliclow
Transparent
Kamon✓
New Relic✓
Integrations
Count
Kamon10
New Relic4
Security
Disclosure policy
Kamon–
New Relic✓
Fedramp
Kamon–
New Relic✓
Gdpr
Kamon✓
New Relic–
Hipaa
Kamon–
New Relic✓
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Kamon–
New Relic✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Kamon7 items
New Relic7 items

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Kamon✓
New Relic-
Distributed tracing
Kamon✓
New Relic-
Insight
Service map
Kamon✓
New Relic-
Code / continuous profiling
Kamon✗
New Relic-
Database monitoring
Kamon✓
New Relic✓
Error analytics
Kamon✗
New Relic-
Real-user monitoring
Kamon✗
New Relic-
SLO / error-budget tracking
Kamon✗
New Relic-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Kamon✗
New Relic-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Kamon-
New Relic-
Core
Language agents
KamonScala, Akka, Play Framework, Cats Effect, Akka HTTP, Lagom
New RelicNode.js, Ruby, Go, iOS
Deployment
Hosting
KamonCloud only
New Relic-

What each one is

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

Kamon

Application performance monitoring platform providing metrics and distributed tracing for backend services. Supports open-source Kamon Telemetry instrumentation and integrates with Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

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.

Kamon

from $89/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $89/mo. Free tier includes 5K metrics and 10M spans/month. Fixed subscription with transparent add-ons, no surprise overage charges.

  • StarterFree
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +4 more
  • Teams$89/mo - 10K metrics, 100M spans/mo, 20 team members
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +7 more
  • Business$299/mo - 30K metrics, 500M spans/mo, 50 team members
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +7 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom metrics capacity
    • Custom span limits
    • Custom data retention
    • Dedicated support
    • Volume discounts
    • +1 more
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
Kamon✓
New Relic✓
iOS
Kamon✗
New Relic✓
CLI
Kamon✗
New Relic✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Kamon✓
New Relic✓
Self-hosted
Kamon✗
New Relic✓

Integrations

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

Kamon

10 total
  • Prometheus
  • Jaeger
  • Datadog
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Akka
  • Play Framework
  • Cats Effect
  • Lagom Framework
  • Akka HTTP
Independently observed

New Relic

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