Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Splunk
Splunk clearly comes out ahead of Elastic Observability on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Neither lists a free tier. Paid plans start at $15/mo for Splunk and $99/mo for Elastic Observability.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | hybrid |
| Company | Splunk | Elastic |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| Industries | DevelopmentCybersecurity & InfoSecSaaS & Cloud | DevelopmentEducation & EdTechAI & Machine LearningSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | observability-apm | observability-apm |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | splunk | elastic-observability |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Monitoring Capabilities | ||
| Advanced Elastic Stack Security Features | ||
| Basic Synthetic Monitoring | ||
| Apps For Apm, Logging, And Metrics | ||
| Everything In Growth | ||
| Complete Data Sovereignty | ||
| Everything In Starter | ||
| Complete Project Tier Includes Ai-Assisted Pipelines, Parsing, And Machine Learning | ||
| Full-Stack Observability | ||
| Cross-Cluster Replication | ||
| Infrastructure Monitoring | ||
| Cross-Cluster Search Es|Ql | ||
| Ingest-Based Pricing | ||
| Custom Control Over Cluster Capacity And Versions | ||
| Standard Alerting | ||
| Distributed Elasticsearch Platform | ||
| Workload-Based Pricing | ||
| Egress: 50 Gb Free, Then $0.05 Per Gb Transferred Per Month | ||
| Elastic Ai Assistant | ||
| Elastic Maps Server | ||
| Elastic Workflows | ||
| Es|Ql | ||
| Everything In Gold | ||
| Everything In Platinum | ||
| Everything In Standard | ||
| Full Infrastructure Ownership | ||
| Gpu Inference | ||
| Ingest: $0.07 To $0.09 Per Gb Ingested | ||
| Limited Support (3-Business Day Target Response) | ||
| Machine Learning (Anomaly Detection, Supervised Learning, Third-Party Model Management) |
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Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Splunk comes out ahead overall, though Elastic Observability can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Splunk's paid plans start at $15/mo and Elastic Observability's start at $99/mo, so Splunk is the lower entry price. Check the pricing comparison for higher tiers and per-seat costs.
Splunk scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
