Comparison

Last9 vs Thanos

On the evidence we track, Thanos leads this comparison with a composite score of 59/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Last948

★Thanos59

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Last9	ThanosLeader
vioscaleAI score	48 / 100medium · 72%	59 / 100medium · 52%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	free	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	free
Transparentpricing.transparent	✗	-
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	100	8
Security
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	-	8.3
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	-	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fthanos-io%2Fthanos&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	-
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	-	1,266
Github starsadoption.github_stars	-	14,234
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	-	52
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	-	6
Historyrelease.history	-	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	-	Apache-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	-	Go
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US	-
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	6 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Last948 / 100medium · 72%

Thanos59 / 100medium · 52%

Pricing

Free tier

Last9✓

Thanos✓

Model

Last9free

Thanosopen_source

Price level

Last9free

Thanosfree

Transparent

Last9✗

Thanos–

Integrations

Count

Last9100

Thanos8

Security

Gdpr

Last9✓

Thanos–

Hipaa

Last9✓

Thanos–

Scorecard

Last9–

Thanos8.3

Vulnerabilities

Last9–

ThanosCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fthanos-io%2Fthanos&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Reliability

Status page

Last9✓

Thanos–

Adoption

Dependent repos

Last9–

Thanos1,266

Github stars

Last9–

Thanos14,234

Activity

Commits last 30d

Last9–

Thanos52

Release

Cadence days

Last9–

Thanos6

History

Last9–

Thanos20 items

License

Spdx

Last9–

ThanosApache-2.0

Language

Primary

Last9–

ThanosGo

Market

Availability

Last9Available worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US

Thanos–

Content

Faq

Last97 items

Thanos6 items

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Observability Tools
Capability	Last9	Thanos
Signals
Metrics	✓	✓
Log management	✓	✗
Distributed tracing	✓	✓
Application performance monitoring	✓	✗
Real-user monitoring	✓	-
Response
Alerting	✓	✓
On-call / incident management	✓	-
Insight
Dashboards	✓	✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry-native	✓	✓
Deployment
Hosting	Cloud only	Self-hosted only

Signals

Metrics

Last9✓

Thanos✓

Log management

Last9✓

Thanos✗

Distributed tracing

Last9✓

Thanos✓

Application performance monitoring

Last9✓

Thanos✗

Real-user monitoring

Last9✓

Thanos-

Response

Alerting

Last9✓

Thanos✓

On-call / incident management

Last9✓

Thanos-

Insight

Dashboards

Last9✓

Thanos✓

Standards

OpenTelemetry-native

Last9✓

Thanos✓

Deployment

Hosting

Last9Cloud only

ThanosSelf-hosted only

What each one is

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

Last9

Last9 enables teams to monitor applications and infrastructure through metrics, logs, and traces collected via OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. It offers service discovery, real-user performance monitoring, threshold-based and anomaly detection alerting, service-level objective tracking, and dashboarding for visibility across cloud infrastructure and applications.

Independently observed

Thanos

Leader

CNCF Incubating project extending Prometheus with global query view across multiple servers, unlimited retention via object storage, and downsampling capabilities.

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 2026-08-13verify ↗

Thanos

Leader

Open source

as of 2026-08-13verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Last9	Thanos
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
iOSPlatforms	✓	✗
AndroidPlatforms	✓	✗
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✗
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Last9✓

Thanos✓

iOS

Last9✓

Thanos✗

Android

Last9✓

Thanos✗

CLI

Last9✓

Thanos✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Last9✓

Thanos✗

Self-hosted

Last9✗

Thanos✓

Integrations

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

In common (5)

Azure
GCP
S3
Prometheus
Grafana

Last9

76 total - 71 not shared

Slack
PagerDuty
Opsgenie
Jira
Microsoft Teams
Telegram
Zenduty
Google Chat
Flock
Webhook
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
Buildkite
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
ECS
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
Oracle
DynamoDB
+47 more

Independently observed

Thanos

Leader

9 total - 4 not shared

OpenTSDB
Swift
Tencent COS
Alertmanager

Independently observed

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