Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Prometheus
Prometheus clearly comes out ahead of Grafana on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Both offer a free tier. Grafana's paid plans start at $19/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | saas tool |
| Company | Grafana Labs | Cloud Native Computing Foundation |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentSaaS & Cloud | DevelopmentSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | error-monitoring | error-monitoringdatabase |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | grafana | prometheus |
|---|---|---|
| 10K Active Series Metrics | ||
| Alerting And Notification System | ||
| 13-Month Metric Retention | ||
| Data Collection And Storage | ||
| 14-Day Data Retention | ||
| Kubernetes Integration | ||
| 24/7 Premium Support | ||
| Promql Query Language | ||
| 30-Day Log, Trace, And Profile Retention | ||
| Service Discovery | ||
| 50Gb Logs | ||
| 50Gb Profiles | ||
| 50Gb Traces | ||
| 8X5 Email Support | ||
| Access To Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, And Phlare | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Community-Built Plugins | ||
| Core Visualization And Querying | ||
| Custom Retention Policies | ||
| Deployment Flexibility (Public Or Federal Cloud) | ||
| Enhanced Security (Saml, Oidc, Ldap) | ||
| Enterprise Plugins | ||
| Enterprise Plugins (Oracle, Servicenow, Etc.) | ||
| Everything In Free | ||
| Everything In Pro | ||
| Reporting And Pdf Exports | ||
| Saml/Sso Authentication | ||
| Self-Hosted Deployment | ||
| Self-Managed Deployment | ||
| Service Level Agreement (Sla) |
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On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Prometheus comes out ahead overall, though Grafana can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Both Grafana and Prometheus offer a free tier.
Prometheus scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
