# Sematext vs Thanos

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Sematext

| Attribute | Sematext | Thanos |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65 (49% (low)) | 59.4 (52% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 52 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 1,266 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 14,234 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A managed cloud platform providing monitoring of infrastructure metrics, application performance, logs, traces, and user interactions designed for DevOps teams. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What is Sematext?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $1.68 per host per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Is Sematext free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Sematext support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Sematext, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Can Sematext be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 21 integrations for Sematext, including Syslog, Angular, Custom Webhooks, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Microsoft Teams, Akka and Ember, plus 13 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"What does Sematext integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Sematext is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Sematext available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"CNCF Incubating project extending Prometheus with global query view across multiple servers, unlimited retention via object storage, and downsampling capabilities. It is indexed under Observability Tools.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"What is Thanos?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Thanos is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"Is Thanos free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Thanos supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"What platforms does Thanos support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Thanos can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"Can Thanos be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 8 integrations for Thanos, including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTSDB, S3, GCP, Azure, Swift and Tencent COS. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://thanos.io","question":"What does Thanos integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Thanos is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos","question":"Is Thanos open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Comprehensive platform that provides visibility into application and API performance, logs, metrics, and end-user experience. Uses synthetic monitoring and real-time alerting to detect performance degradation and downtime before they impact users. | CNCF Incubating project extending Prometheus with global query view across multiple servers, unlimited retention via object storage, and downsampling capabilities. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":false,"logs":false,"hosting":"self","metrics":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 100 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Syslog"},{"name":"Angular"},{"name":"Custom Webhooks"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"GitLab CI/CD"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Akka"},{"name":"Ember"},{"name":"Next.js"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Kibana"},{"name":"Apache Solr"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"AWS ECS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat"},{"name":"AlertOps","native":true,"category":"alerting"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Docker","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Postman","native":true,"category":"api"},{"name":"Solr","native":true,"category":"search"},{"name":"SolrCloud","native":true,"category":"search"},{"name":"OpsGenie","category":"incident_management"},{"name":"Zapier","category":"automation"},{"name":"VictorOps","category":"incident_management"}]` | `[{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"OpenTSDB"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Swift"},{"name":"Tencent COS"},{"name":"Alertmanager","native":true,"category":"alerting"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Infrastructure Monitoring","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Network Map","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":1.68,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"AI Agent Watch","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":1.68,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"summary":"From $5/month for infrastructure monitoring. Metered pricing for logs and traces based on volume and retention. 14-day free trial available for Status Pages.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T15:53:45.118Z","startingPrice":{"amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://thanos.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T17:01:37.783Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":5,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 6 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.4","date":"2026-07-30T14:33:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.3","date":"2026-07-29T10:49:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.2","date":"2026-07-17T06:51:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.1","date":"2026-07-16T19:45:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0","date":"2026-07-08T14:44:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.42.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0-rc.2","date":"2026-06-30T13:06:27Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.42.0-rc.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.42.0-rc.1","date":"2026-06-25T07:16:42Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.42.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0","date":"2026-02-12T10:32:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.41.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0-rc.1","date":"2026-02-11T10:41:41Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.41.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.41.0-rc.0","date":"2026-02-09T14:03:57Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.41.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.1","date":"2025-10-28T18:13:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.40.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.0","date":"2025-10-27T11:24:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.40.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.40.0-rc.0","date":"2025-10-21T13:02:52Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.40.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.2","date":"2025-07-21T06:51:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.1","date":"2025-07-01T13:03:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.0","date":"2025-06-25T11:54:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.39.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.39.0-rc.0","date":"2025-06-20T04:45:58Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0","date":"2025-04-03T12:14:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.38.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0-rc.1","date":"2025-04-01T07:07:33Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/releases/tag/v0.38.0-rc.0","date":"2025-03-25T14:05:25Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-rc.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 8.3 |
| security.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,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Sematext | 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 + self-hosted | Self-hosted only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:53:46.849Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*