5 categories · RankedGrafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud is an observability platform built on open standards that unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles and business data · grafana.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 7 of 116 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
OpenTelemetry Collector is first at 40%.
OpenTelemetry Collector is first at 45%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cribl Stream is first at 40%.
Why models recommend it
“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-constrained question · 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-constrained question · first choice
“Option A: Cost-Conscious & Flexible Stack: OpenTelemetry Collector → Grafana Cloud (or self-hosted LGTM)”Kimi K2 · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Start with Grafana Cloud's free tier or New Relic's free tier to get started at $0 cost.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid pure enterprise tools ... or general observability (Dynatrace, Grafana)”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“versus $400–$1,800/month for Grafana Cloud LGTM or Datadog ... can be justified despite the higher cost”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · warning
“free but carry hidden costs in data engineering effort and infrastructure management”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“self-hosted solutions like Grafana (requiring significant maintenance effort)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Grafana Cloud, over the 216 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | 31 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 72 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 68 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 66 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 60 | 34 | Compare → | |
| 56 | 1 | View → | |
| 41 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 36 | 7 | View → |
What the models named instead of Grafana Cloud →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Grafana Cloud's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- customers
- Price stated
- The Free Forever plan; Plans to suit every scale
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- The Free Forever plan
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001
- Customers named
- BlackRock, Pegasystems, Lovable, LATAM Airlines, Delivery Hero, ASOS, Sailpoint, Mux
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 183 of the 216 answers that named Grafana Cloud and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
317 of the 393 domain citations in answers naming Grafana Cloud came from a third party's page. Thirty-one were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,964 | 13 | 2026-09-14 | Observability, SIEM | |
| Conference or event | 537 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 175 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 140 | undated | |||
| News or press | 79 | 5 | 2026-08-01 | Observability | |
| Report or ebook | 78 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2025-09-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 21 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 6 | 1 | 2026-07-10 | ||
| Case study | 2 | 0 | 2021-04-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-14Digital experience monitoring with grafana cloud session replay synthetic checks and faster investigations blog
- 2026-09-10Synthetic monitoring labels update blog
- 2026-09-09How to monitor cypress tests with grafana cloud blog
- 2026-08-27Identify anomalies outlier detection forecasting how grafana cloud uses ai ml to make observability easier blog
- 2026-08-27How to measure and improve instrumentation quality for better full stack observability blog
- 2026-08-25The grafana ai sdk for go a shared foundation for building ai applications blog
Events in person
- March 5, 2026ObservabilityCON on the Road: TorontoDelta Hotels Toronto, Toronto, Canada · hosted
As the event pages on grafana.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page grafana.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name observability (13); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.