# New Relic vs Pyroscope

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Pyroscope

| Attribute | New Relic | Pyroscope |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 47.5 (61% (medium)) | 55.3 (40% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | End-to-end application performance monitoring and full-stack observability platform with automatic instrumentation, distributed tracing, and intelligent recommendations. | A horizontally scalable, distributed continuous profiling database providing fast, efficient storage and querying with high availability. Enables developers to understand resource usage in applications down to the line number. |
| features.capabilities | `{"languages":"Node.js, Ruby, Go, iOS"}` | `{"hosting":"both","code_profiling":true,"distributed_tracing":true}` |
| integrations.count | 4 | 1 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"AWS ECS"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"Docker"}]` | `[{"name":"Grafana"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free tier with 100 GB/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users","features":["Access to 50+ capabilities","Automatic logs obfuscation","No credit card required"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Perpetual free tier with 100 GB/month of data ingest","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"basic_users":"Unlimited","data_ingest":"100 GB/month","full_platform_users":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$10 first full platform user, $99 per additional (max 5), $49/core user, $0.40/GB data beyond 100 GB","features":["Ticketed support","2 business days support response SLA","SAML single sign-on","Unlimited basic users"],"minSeats":5,"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"core user","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"additional full platform user","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For small teams looking to get started with observability","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"data_ingest":"100 GB/month free","full_platform_users":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$349/user/year or $418.80/user/month, $49/core user, $0.40/GB data","features":["Unlimited full platform users","2-hour critical initial support response SLA","Data Plus eligibility","Extended data retention","Advanced admin capabilities"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"full platform user","amount":349,"period":"year","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"full platform user","amount":418.8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"core user","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams with more than five engineers and complex workloads","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"data_ingest":"100 GB/month free","full_platform_users":"None"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing, contact sales","features":["Everything in Pro","FedRAMP Moderate and HIPAA eligibility","Priority ticket routing","1-hour critical initial support response SLA","24/7 dedicated support","Data Plus & advanced security"],"description":"For at-scale organizations with advanced security and support needs","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"full_platform_users":"None"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Data Plus","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.6,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Advanced Compute"}],"summary":"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.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://newrelic.com/platform/application-monitoring","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T14:10:25.231Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month","features":["All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage","Community support","14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Always free, perfect for personal projects and early-stage startups","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"From $19/month + usage with volume discounts","features":["Pay as you go above Free tier","8×5 email support","13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":19,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Self-serve pay-as-you-go with volume discounts","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"From $25,000/year","features":["Premium support","Custom retention","Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud)"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25000,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Full-service for companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier with $0 cost. Pro from $19/month + usage. Enterprise from $25,000/year.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/oss/pyroscope/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:12:09.793Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.05,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

| Capability | New Relic | Pyroscope |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | - | - |
| Distributed tracing | - | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Service map | - | - |
| Code / continuous profiling | - | ✓ |
| Database monitoring | - | - |
| Error analytics | - | - |
| Real-user monitoring | - | - |
| SLO / error-budget tracking | - | - |
| **Intelligence** |  |  |
| Anomaly / root-cause AI | - | - |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | - | - |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Language agents | Node.js, Ruby, Go, iOS | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | - | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:45:47.696Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*