CubeAPM vs. Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CubeAPM	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	CubeAPM is a full-stack observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that enables engineering teams to monitor services, infrastructure, logs, and metrics from a single pane of glass. Teams can self-host CubeAPM inside their own cloud or on-premises environment, or use it as a managed deployment. It delivers full-stack visibility with smart sampling, alerting, tracing, and unlimited data retention at a flat usage-based price of $0.15 per GB. Many teams face a trade-off in…	$0.15 per month Per GB
Grafana Cloud	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Grafana Cloud is a fully managed Observability Platform designed to aggregate, visualize, and analyze telemetry data across distributed architectures. The platform provides a unified environment for Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Continuous Profiling, utilizing the LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Pyroscope stack to provide high-cardinality analysis of system state.	$8 per month up to 1 active user

Pricing

CubeAPM

Grafana Cloud

Editions & Modules

Pro: $0.15
per month Per GB

Grafana Cloud - Pro: $8
per month up to 1 active user
Grafana Cloud - Free: Free
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
Grafana Cloud - Advanced: Volume Discounts
custom data usage custom active users
Grafana - Enterprise Stack: Custom Pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
CubeAPM	Grafana Cloud
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

CubeAPM follows a transparent & predictable usage-based pricing model starting at $0.15 per GB of data ingested per month. Unlike traditional APM tools that charge by host or agent, CubeAPM pricing scales linearly with data volume—no hidden fees, overages, or lock-ins. Teams can deploy self-hosted or managed versions with unlimited data retention and predictable monthly billing. Enterprise plans include ISO 27001-certified infrastructure, dedicated support, and volume-based discounts.

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Community Pulse
	CubeAPM	Grafana Cloud
Considered Both Products	CubeAPM Verified User Anonymous Chose CubeAPM Satisfactory Incentivized Helpful?	Grafana Cloud Verified User Anonymous Chose Grafana Cloud Datadog Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grafana Cloud Easy to use Easy to configure Cost efficient Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grafana Cloud Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grafana Cloud Grafana gives more flexibility to explore its features. A new user can explore experiment and work with free Grafana account and find if it is suitable for them.Other platforms don't have the features in their freemium version that Grafana has. It lets us try features of … Incentivized Helpful? ANurag Tamrakar Software Engineer - DevOps Chose Grafana Cloud Kibana and Foglight Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Goodhall infastructure consultant Chose Grafana Cloud Grafana has a direct plugin to Icinga monitoring solution and allowed for easy configuration for us. At the time of implementation, other services did not have such an integration. As we already had a very customized and heavily introduced monitoring solution in place, we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Grafana Cloud Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	CubeAPM	Grafana Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.4 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.6 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CubeAPM	Grafana Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	most of the needs are covered. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Alerting on set matrices View graphs for needed matrices of our Application with lower cost w.r.t the service we were using previously. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs Microservices monitoring Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	if posible more details on DB query, Like NR used to give details of even Index used for that slow query. This might make easy to solve slow DB query ( wrong-index issue) Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Documentation needs to be more clarified since it can be confusing for beginners Notification alert message templates need to be simplified Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	We uses it. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Great usage in terms of monitoring of any application from backend to frontend and even any AWS resource via cloud watch and other connectors. Easy to use and configure personalised dash boarding and alerting features. Cost efficient and easy to setup and run, no mazor scaling challenges in terms of managing and maintaining the stack, easy to configure via Prometheus, influx and other connectors Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Satisfactory Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Grafana is more flexible, readily adopts other tools frameworks instead of forcing you to use their agent, doesn't force you into Vendor lock-in, and embraces open source, self-hosted, and Enterprise. Similar companies would like you to use their specific tooling and don't offer nearly as much flexibility. The other thing I like about Grafana is their storage usage is much lower compared to similar tools and competitors Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Gave us the needed feature which we were using with lower cost Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It has kicked out some of our paid monitoring and visualization tools. Now Monitoring, Visualization and Alerting is being done in a single platform. It made monitoring and visualization very easy for us. ANurag Tamrakar Software Engineer - DevOps Read full review
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