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Comparison

New Relic vs Skylight

On the evidence we track, Skylight leads this comparison with a composite score of 54/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

New Relic full profile →Skylight full profile →
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New Relic46
★Skylight54
Score
vioscaleAI score
New Relic46 / 100medium · 67%
Skylight54 / 100low · 49%
Pricing
Free tier
New Relic✓
Skylight✓
Model
New Relicfreemium
Skylightfree
Price level
New Reliclow
Skylightfree
Transparent
New Relic✓
Skylight✗
Integrations
Count
New Relic4
Skylight7
Security
Disclosure policy
New Relic✓
Skylight–
Fedramp
New Relic✓
Skylight–
Gdpr
New Relic–
Skylight✓
Hipaa
New Relic✓
Skylight–
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
New Relic✓
Skylight✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
New Relic7 items
Skylight7 items

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
New Relic-
Skylight✓
Distributed tracing
New Relic-
Skylight-
Insight
Service map
New Relic-
Skylight-
Code / continuous profiling
New Relic-
Skylight✓
Database monitoring
New Relic✓
Skylight✓
Error analytics
New Relic-
Skylight✓
Real-user monitoring
New Relic-
Skylight✗
SLO / error-budget tracking
New Relic-
Skylight-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
New Relic-
Skylight✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
New Relic-
Skylight-
Core
Language agents
New RelicNode.js, Ruby, Go, iOS
SkylightRuby, Rails, Sinatra, Grape
Deployment
Hosting
New Relic-
SkylightCloud only

What each one is

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

New Relic

End-to-end application performance monitoring and full-stack observability platform with automatic instrumentation, distributed tracing, and intelligent recommendations.

Independently observed

Skylight

Leader

A service that tracks how Ruby applications perform in production, showing developers where their code spends time and what changes affect response speeds, with tools to spot slow endpoints and prevent performance regressions.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 ↗

Skylight

Leader
from $20/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 100,000 monthly traces; paid tiers starting at $20/month

  • FreeFree
  • Pay-as-you-goStarting at $20/month
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
New Relic✓
Skylight✓
iOS
New Relic✓
Skylight✗
CLI
New Relic✓
Skylight✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
New Relic✓
Skylight✓
Self-hosted
New Relic✓
Skylight✗

Integrations

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

New Relic

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

Skylight

Leader
9 total
  • Sidekiq
  • DelayedJob
  • ActiveJob
  • Sinatra
  • Grape
  • GraphQL
  • MCP
  • GitHub
  • Rails
Independently observed
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