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Comparison

Last9 vs Sematext

On the evidence we track, Sematext leads this comparison with a composite score of 69/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Last9 full profile →Sematext full profile →
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Last948
★Sematext69
Score
Vioscale score
Last948 / 100medium · 73%updating
Sematext69 / 100low · 49%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Model
Last9free
Sematextfreemium
Price level
Last9free
Sematextlow
Transparent
Last9✗
Sematext✓
Integrations
Count
Last9100
Sematext100
Security
Gdpr
Last9✓
Sematext–
Hipaa
Last9✓
Sematext–
Reliability
Status page
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

Signals
Metrics
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Log management
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Distributed tracing
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Application performance monitoring
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Real-user monitoring
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Response
Alerting
Last9✓
Sematext✓
On-call / incident management
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Insight
Dashboards
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native
Last9✓
Sematext✗
Deployment
Hosting
Last9Cloud only
SematextCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

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

Last9

A unified observability platform built on OpenTelemetry and Prometheus that manages logs, metrics, and traces with high-cardinality storage. It includes AI-assisted incident investigation, real-time alerting, and user monitoring capabilities.

Independently observed

Sematext

Leader

Cloud-based and self-hosted observability solution that integrates infrastructure monitoring, log management, distributed tracing, and synthetic monitoring in a unified interface. Offers per-product, per-host, or per-monitor billing with no hidden overage charges.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Last9

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Sematext

Leader
from $2/moUsage-basedFree tier14-day trial

From $2.8/host/month for infrastructure monitoring. 14-day free trial, no commitment. Metered pricing with no overage charges.

  • LogsFrom $5/month
    • Log ingestion
    • Log analytics
    • Searching and filtering
  • Infra MonitoringFrom $2.8/host/month
    • Host metrics
    • Container monitoring
    • System performance
  • Service MonitoringFrom $8.64/month
  • TracingFrom $19/month
  • SyntheticsFrom $2/monitor/month
    • API monitoring
    • Uptime monitoring
    • Performance monitoring
  • Synthetics Standard$29/month
  • Synthetics Pro$99/month
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Last9✓
Sematext✓
iOS
Last9✓
Sematext✗
Android
Last9✓
Sematext✗
CLI
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Last9✓
Sematext✓
Self-hosted
Last9✗
Sematext✓

Integrations

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

In common (3)
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Kubernetes
  • Logstash

Last9

50 total - 47 not shared
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Opsgenie
  • Jira
  • Telegram
  • Zenduty
  • Google Chat
  • Flock
  • Webhook
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD
  • Buildkite
  • Jenkins
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • ECS
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Oracle
  • DynamoDB
  • +23 more
Independently observed

Sematext

Leader
14 total - 11 not shared
  • Syslog
  • Angular
  • Custom Webhooks
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Akka
  • Ember
  • Next.js
  • Elasticsearch
  • Kibana
  • Apache Solr
  • OpenSearch
Independently observed

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