Seat limits and high ingestion costs are forcing teams to consider New Relic alternatives. With Bronto, you can retain all of your logs & traces in one place with full fidelity and sub-second queries.
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New Relic is priced for 10 full platform users on Pro at $349 each, the minimum assumed above 5 TB a month. Bronto plans are chosen by ingest alone: Starter up to 1 TB a month, Pro up to 5 TB, with unlimited users.
Customize in the full calculatorSave $4,480 a month
New Relic costs 5.4× as much, with shorter log & trace retention.
High-level comparison across what matters most.
Telemetry Coverage
No compromises. 100% tracing coverage and no sampling needed. Bring logs together in one centralized platform at an accessible price.
New Relic's high ingestion costs encourage customers to sample their logs and adopt shortcuts that reduce event visibility.
Query Speed
Bronto is designed to technically ensure fast search across TBs of data. Query more instead of waiting.
Since New Relic stores all telemetry in a proprietary database, it's harder to extract data and queries on high volumes often time out.
Data Retention
Bronto enables teams to retain a larger dataset so every root cause analysis has rich context. No archiving or rehydrating logs to find what matters.
New Relic defaults to 30 days of log retention and only 7 days for traces. Teams accept losing visibility as retaining logs becomes too expensive.
Cost of Ownership
Bronto charges only $0.10 per GB of ingestion for always hot logs & traces, with no extra fees for storage or search.
New Relic charges at least $0.40/GB at ingestion and then additional lower rates for storage and insight queries.
Petabyte-scale log search with SQL, live tail and instant filtering.
“The combination of long-term retention, lightning-fast search, and AI-powered insights means we catch issues much earlier, often before customers notice them.”
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Hot log retention | 30 days default, archive extra | 12 months included |
| Search cost | Query costs vary by retention tier | 20x to 100x tiered search |
| Time to first value | Agent rollout + module config | Minutes via OTel / Fluent Bit |
| Bill predictability | Multi-dimensional, prone to spikes | One ingestion volume |
Every byte of telemetry is instantly queryable — no rehydration, no cold tiers, no waiting.
12 months of retention included out of the box. Keep your data as long as you need it.
No sampling, no aggregation, no data loss. Every log, trace, and metric stored exactly as received.
See exactly what you're ingesting and what it costs. Set quotas, alerts, and exclusion filters in seconds.
Sub-second queries across petabytes of data. Purpose-built indexing that scales with your growth.
At ingestion, Bronto parses your logs using known formats or AI — so every field is structured and instantly searchable.
