Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud clearly comes out ahead of Groundcover on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Both offer a free tier. Paid plans start at $30/mo for Groundcover and $19/mo for Grafana Cloud.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | hybrid |
| Company | Groundcover | Grafana Labs |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentSaaS & Cloud | DevelopmentSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | observability-apm | observability-apm |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | groundcover | grafana-cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Premium Support | ||
| 12 Hour Data Retention | ||
| 10K Active Series Per Month | ||
| All Available Integrations And Data Sources | ||
| 13 Months Retention For Metrics | ||
| Everything In Enterprise Plan | ||
| 14 Days Retention For Metrics, Logs, Traces, Profiles, & K6 Performance Tests | ||
| Everything In Pro Plan | ||
| 30 Days Retention For Logs, Traces, Profiles, & K6 Performance Tests | ||
| Isolated Authentication | ||
| 8X5 Email Support | ||
| No Credit Card Required | ||
| All Grafana Cloud Services With Limited Usage | ||
| Rbac Support | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Self-Hosted Data Plane | ||
| Custom Retention | ||
| Self-Hosted Ui | ||
| Deployment Flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Or Bring Your Own Cloud) | ||
| Slack Community Support | ||
| Everything In Free | ||
| Sso Support | ||
| Pay As You Go Above The Free Tier | ||
| Standard Data Retention | ||
| Standard Support | ||
| Unlimited Data Retention |
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On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Grafana Cloud comes out ahead overall, though Groundcover can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Groundcover's paid plans start at $30/mo and Grafana Cloud's start at $19/mo, so Grafana Cloud is the lower entry price. Check the pricing comparison for higher tiers and per-seat costs.
Both Groundcover and Grafana Cloud offer a free tier.
Grafana Cloud scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
Grafana Cloud is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
