Slow searches and surprise bills are forcing teams to consider Splunk alternatives. With Bronto, you can centralize your logs and traces across applications in one platform built for petabyte scale. Retain logs and traces for 12 months with fast search and predictable pricing.
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Splunk doesn't publish list prices, so its log cost is an estimate from third-party data. Traces and metrics are priced for 50 hosts (50 for every 50 GB/day of traces or 100K series). 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 $10,304 a month
Splunk costs 11× more, with shorter log and trace retention.
High-level comparison across what matters most.
Telemetry Coverage
Get 100% tracing coverage and no sampling needed. Bring logs together in one centralized platform at an accessible price.
Ingestion & indexing fees encourage customers to sample their logs and adopt shortcuts that reduce event visibility.
Query Speed
Bronto is architected to ensure sub-second search across TBs of data. Query more instead of waiting.
Splunk's proprietary TSIDX index slows queries at scale; large datasets require dedicated search heads.
Data Retention
Retain a larger dataset to ensure that your root cause analysis has rich context. No archiving or rehydrating logs to find what matters.
Splunk's hot/warm/cold tiering means older logs are expensive to query or require rehydration.
Cost of Ownership
No surprise bills. Choose the Bronto plan that is right for you and see how accessible fully-managed logging and tracing can be for your applications.
Ingest-based licensing and add-on costs make Splunk bills unpredictable and difficult to forecast.
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 | 90 days default hot storage; longer retention requires expensive archive tiers and rehydration | 12 months included |
| Search cost | Indexed-log fees + rehydration | 20x to 100x search allowance, no per-query fees |
| Anomaly detection | Anomaly Detection app end-of-lifed; replaced by ML Toolkit add-on | BrontoScope AI, included |
| Time to first value | Agent rollout + module config | Minutes via OTel / Fluent Bit |
| Bill predictability | Multi-dimensional, prone to spikes | One monthly price |
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.
