8 categories · RankedSigNoz
SigNoz is an open-source observability platform positioned as a Datadog alternative, used for application performance monitoring, log management, infrastructure monitoring and error tracking · signoz.io ↗
Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: four labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Grafana is first at 38%.
Grafana is first at 32%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Datadog is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“Move to SigNoz Cloud when you need more capacity—it offers the best balance of simplicity, features, and predictable pricing”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“SigNoz (Best All-Around Value & Simplicity) ... widely considered the best open-source alternative to Datadog”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The best observability platform for a company with a limited budget is SigNoz”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Open-source, predictable pricing, up to 80% cheaper than Datadog”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Signoz | Lacking documentation, inadequate customer support”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SigNoz, over the 211 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 158 | 41 | Compare → | |
| 106 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 91 | 32 | Compare → | |
| 87 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 68 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 40 | 10 | View → | |
| 39 | 11 | View → | |
| 38 | 5 | View → |
What the models named instead of SigNoz →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on SigNoz's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams and AI agents
- Price stated
- Simple usage-based pricing
- Starting price
- $49/month
- Free plan or trial
- Get Started — Free
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA
- Hosting
- us-east, US, EU, India
- Customers named
- Alien Intelligence, Ariso, Armur AI, Auvik, Black Forest Labs, Blaxel, Cisco, Eltropy
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 179 of the 211 answers that named SigNoz and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
437 of the 496 domain citations in answers naming SigNoz 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 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 310 | undated | APM, Logs | ||
| Report or ebook | 266 | undated | APM, Infra monitoring | ||
| Comparison | 152 | undated | APM | ||
| News or press | 41 | 0 | 2026-06-22 | ||
| Case study | 19 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | 0 | 2025-11-22 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-06-22Archive news or press
- 2026-06-22The world now has more bot traffic news or press
- 2026-06-09How to read distributed traces when news or press
- 2026-05-24Your observability tool just got news or press
- 2026-05-03Why should a trace id be 128 bits news or press
- 2026-04-19Our project hail mary the observability news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page signoz.io 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.