Grafana Cloud vs New Relic
One of fourteen models named Grafana Cloud first on the direct prompt; zero named New Relic. Grafana Cloud was named by twelve of the fourteen models and New Relic by eleven and Grafana Cloud carries 23 labels and New Relic 16, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in five categories this edition.
Named in nine categories this edition.
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 telemetry pipelines page.
By framing
Grafana CloudFirst choices, of fourteen modelsNew Relic
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Grafana Cloud and New Relic were named in the same answer 114 times, of the 216 answers naming Grafana Cloud and the 709 naming New Relic. In those answers New Relic took the first choice thirty-one times and Grafana Cloud eleven.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| 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 | | | |
Grafana Cloud New Relic first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Grafana Cloud on the left and New Relic on the right.The direct prompt
Grafana Cloud first, New Relic not the choice
1 of 14 modelsNew Relic was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.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.Neither was named
10 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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
Grafana Cloud17%#2 of 15New Relic0%#14 of 15Grafana Cloud9%#4 of 18New Relic2%#8 of 18Grafana Cloud2%#5 of 15New Relic0%#15 of 15What the models said about Grafana Cloud
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.
“versus $400–$1,800/month for Grafana Cloud LGTM or Datadog ... can be justified despite the higher cost” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · soft negative
“Grafana Cloud free tier paired with Prometheus is the cheapest viable observability stack for a 10-service, 5-user startup at $0 licensing cost.” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice
“Use Grafana Cloud's free tier as the backend to start. It currently includes metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting” GPT-6 Luna · budget prompt · first choice
“Option A: Cost-Conscious & Flexible Stack: OpenTelemetry Collector → Grafana Cloud (or self-hosted LGTM)” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · first choice
What the models said about New Relic
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Legacy vendor-specific agents (New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace traditional agents) | Closed data formats, proprietary APIs” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
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.