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Application performance monitoring · November 2026 Edition

New Relic vs SigNoz

Nine of fourteen models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; zero named SigNoz. New Relic was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and SigNoz by eleven and New Relic carries 81 labels and SigNoz 23, so the shares are not directly comparable.

New Relic

endorsed leader

Named in nine categories this edition.

SigNoz

accepted challenger

Named in eight categories this edition.

First-choice share61%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate19%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels8123A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, New Relic reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Datadog APM was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. New Relic vs Datadog APM · New Relic vs Grafana Cloud · New Relic vs ManageEngine Applications Manager

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the application performance monitoring page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
New RelicFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSigNoz
Direct901 against New Relic
Paraphrase80
Comparative20
Budget-constrained121
Scale-constrained101 against New Relic
Negative0113 against New Relic
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, New Relic and SigNoz were named in the same answer 158 times, of the 709 answers naming New Relic and the 211 naming SigNoz. In those answers SigNoz took the first choice sixteen times and New Relic forty-one.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where New Relic and SigNoz stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
New Relic SigNoz first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, New Relic on the left and SigNoz on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where New Relic and SigNoz stood in it.

New Relic first, SigNoz an alternative

9 of 14 modelsSigNoz was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Dynatrace
Gemini 3.5 FlashNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, Sentry, SigNoz
Mistral SmallNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, SigNoz
DeepSeek V4 FlashNew Relic alternatives: AppSignal, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, ManageEngine Applications Manager
Llama 4 MaverickDatadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic
Qwen 3.7 FlashNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud
Kimi K2New Relic alternatives: Atatus, ManageEngine Applications Manager, Site24x7
GPT-6 LunaNew Relic alternatives: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud
Muse Glimmer 30BDatadog APM, New Relic alternatives: IBM Instana, OpManager Nexus

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarDatadog APM alternatives: ManageEngine Applications Manager, New Relic, Sentry
Grok 4.20Datadog APM alternatives: New Relic
GLM 4.7 FlashXManageEngine Applications Manager alternatives: AppSignal, Datadog APM, New Relic, SolarWinds Observability

Neither was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
MiniMax M2.5Datadog APM alternatives: AppDynamics, AppSignal

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
New Relic leads by fifty-seven points.
New Relic60%#1 of 14
SigNoz4%#6 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
New Relic leads by fifty-nine points.
New Relic61%#1 of 14
SigNoz2%#6 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
New Relic leads by eight points.
New Relic8%#3 of 10
SigNoz0%#10 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about New Relic

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Start with New Relic. It gives you the best balance of full-stack coverage, generous free tier for evaluation, user-friendly interface, and predictable pricing.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“New Relic: Excellent full-stack observability, usage-based pricing, strong AI, easy OTel support. Often praised for value and query flexibility.” Grok 4.20 · scale prompt · first choice
“For most budget-conscious companies, New Relic's free tier is the best starting point due to its generous limits and full feature access.” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about SigNoz

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.