Log management · RankedGrafana Cloud Logs
Grafana Cloud Logs is a fully managed log aggregation system powered by Loki OSS, for teams that centralize, analyze, and optimize logs from their applications and infrastructure · grafana.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Better Stack is first at 29%.
Datadog Log Management is first at 31%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Splunk is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“For most budget-conscious small companies, I'd start with Grafana Cloud Logs.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For startups or small tech teams: Start with Axiom or Grafana Cloud.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Grafana Loki + Grafana Cloud (Best Overall Value)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Recommended: Grafana Cloud Logs (powered by Loki)”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Grafana Cloud Logs, if you want one simple per-GB price. Its bill can depend on processed, written, retained”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Grafana Cloud Logs, over the 52 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 39 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 1 | View → | |
| 23 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 3 | View → | |
| 17 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Grafana Cloud Logs →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Grafana Cloud Logs's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams
- Price stated
- free Always free $0 No credit card required; pro Self-serve Starts at $0.050/GB Processi Starts at $0.400/GBWritei Starts at $0.100/GBRetaini; enterprise Full service Prices are Custom
- Starting price
- $0.050/GB Processi
- Free plan or trial
- Always free; No credit card required; The free plan includes access to logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards.
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, PCI DSS, GDPR
- Hosting
- Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud
- Customers named
- Paradigm, TeleTracking, Houzz
- Also from Grafana Cloud
- Grafana Alloy, Grafana Cloud / LGTM, Grafana Cloud / LGTM Stack, Grafana Enterprise Stack, Grafana Mimir, Grafana Synthetic Monitoring
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 42 of the 52 answers that named Grafana Cloud Logs and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
112 of the 130 domain citations in answers naming Grafana Cloud Logs came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |