Tool profile
Observability platform for apps, infrastructure, logs, browser performance, and telemetry analysis.
Engineering orgs wanting one vendor for traces, metrics, and logs
New Relic bills telemetry ingest plus user types (basic, core, full platform) across editions, with an alternate compute/CCU path for Advanced Compute features on eligible accounts.
Per newrelic.com/pricing, the perpetual Free tier includes 100 GB/month of data ingest, one free full-platform user, unlimited basic users, access to 50+ capabilities, and 500 synthetic checks (see FAQ). Beyond 100 GB, original data ingest is $0.40/GB and Data Plus is $0.60/GB (adds extended retention, advanced governance—described on pricing/FAQ). EU data center adds $0.05/GB on the same pages.
Standard edition caps full platform users at five; list math shows $10 for the first full platform user and $99 for each additional on Standard (pay-as-you-go positioning in FAQ). Core users list around $49/user/month. Pro edition lists full platform users about $349/user/month on annual commitments and about $418.80/user/month month-to-month on the comparison table snapshot. Enterprise is contact sales with FedRAMP/HIPAA eligibility notes tied to Data Plus.
Synthetic checks beyond included counts list $0.005/check. Compare Datadog for similar breadth; compare Grafana Cloud when open ecosystems dominate; compare Honeycomb for high-cardinality tracing specialty.
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Editorial take
The invoice is ingest GB + full platform seats unless you adopt compute pricing—read the edition table carefully. Data Plus’s $0.60/GB premium must be justified by retention/compliance value. EU residency adds $0.05/GB. Synthetic and extended retention are common add-ons. For alternatives, Datadog competes head-on; OpenTelemetry + Grafana reduces vendor coupling; Sentry leads errors-first workflows.
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Pricing snapshot
Free includes 100 GB/mo ingest, 1 full-platform user, unlimited basic users, and 500 synthetic checks. Beyond that, original data ingest is $0.40/GB and Data Plus is $0.60/GB on Standard and Pro; EU data center adds $0.05/GB. Standard full-platform users list at $10 for the first user and $99 for each additional user up to five; Core users list at $49/user. Pro full-platform users list at $349/user/mo on annual commitments or $418.80/user/mo month to month. Enterprise is custom.
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