7 categories · RankedGrafana Loki
Grafana Loki is a log aggregation system offered as a fully managed service through Grafana Cloud, for teams that collect and store logs, including in Kubernetes environments · grafana.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market. Ranked 14 of 81 for enterprise buyers.
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%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Splunk is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“using Grafana Loki (for logs) + Prometheus/Mimir (for metrics) + Tempo (for traces) is the industry's response to the bill-shock problem”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“For low operational overhead & cost control: Consider Grafana Loki (index-free log aggregation, cost-effective S3 storage)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Grafana Loki Cloud is an open-source platform that offers a free plan and a starting price of $25.00/mo.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Grafana Loki is the most cost‑effective open‑source choice (low indexing cost, simple to scale).”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“If you're using Grafana Loki, be aware that querying requires good label hygiene; complex retention policies need planning”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Grafana Loki if you need unrestricted full-text search across poorly structured logs.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Common for cost-conscious teams but lacks a unified "pipeline" layer.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Grafana Loki, over the 199 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | 24 | Compare → | |
| 96 | 15 | View → | |
| 94 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 67 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 67 | 3 | View → | |
| 64 | 10 | View → | |
| 58 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 53 | 1 | View → | |
| 51 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Grafana Loki →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Grafana Loki's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Price stated
- Free: $0; Pro: Starts at $0.050/GB Process, $0.400/GB Write, $0.100/GB Retain; Enterprise: Custom
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- The Free Forever plan
- Certifications
- FedRAMP, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2
- Hosting
- Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud
- 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 155 of the 199 answers that named Grafana Loki and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
351 of the 388 domain citations in answers naming Grafana Loki 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 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
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. 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.