# Last9 vs Sematext

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Sematext

| Attribute | Last9 | Sematext |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 48.4 (73% (medium)) | 69.1 (49% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"cloud","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":true}` | `{"apm":true,"rum":true,"logs":true,"hosting":"both","metrics":true,"on_call":true,"tracing":true,"alerting":true,"dashboards":true,"otel_native":false}` |
| integrations.count | 100 | 100 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Zenduty"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Flock"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"ArgoCD"},{"name":"Buildkite"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"ECS"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"RDS"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Flask"},{"name":"Django"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"Express.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Laravel"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Loki"},{"name":"Fluent Bit"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"iOS"},{"name":"Android"},{"name":"Flutter"},{"name":"React Native"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://last9.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T23:06:22.032Z"}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Logs","summary":"From $5/month","features":["Log ingestion","Log analytics","Searching and filtering"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"month"},"kind":"metered","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Log management and analytics","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Infra Monitoring","summary":"From $2.8/host/month","features":["Host metrics","Container monitoring","System performance"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"host","amount":2.8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Real-time infrastructure monitoring","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Service Monitoring","summary":"From $8.64/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":8.64,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Service-level performance metrics","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Tracing","summary":"From $19/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":19,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Zero-code distributed tracing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Synthetics","summary":"From $2/monitor/month","features":["API monitoring","Uptime monitoring","Performance monitoring"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"monitor","amount":2,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Synthetic monitoring for APIs and websites","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Synthetics Standard","summary":"$29/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Packaged synthetic monitoring plan","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Synthetics Pro","summary":"$99/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Advanced synthetic monitoring plan","contactSales":false}],"summary":"From $2.8/host/month for infrastructure monitoring. 14-day free trial, no commitment. Metered pricing with no overage charges.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://sematext.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T21:36:12.631Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":2,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | free | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Observability Tools)

| Capability | Last9 | Sematext |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:59:17.754Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*