Log management · RankedSolarWinds Papertrail
SolarWinds Papertrail is a log management product for developers · papertrail.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: one label.
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%.
Splunk is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“Papertrail is a cheap log management platform that offers a fixed-tier pricing plan starting at $7.00/mo.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Papertrail and Datadog's free tier are generally the top contenders for cost-conscious teams.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Simplest inexpensive SaaS: Papertrail—a straightforward option for small teams”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Simplest Free Tier ... One of the most genuinely useful free tiers in log management”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Verdict: Avoid for anything serious; use only for tiny hobbyist setups.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“they lack deep tracing integrations, advanced correlation capabilities, and cost-effective cold storage options”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Papertrail, over the 59 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 41 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 40 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of SolarWinds Papertrail →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on SolarWinds Papertrail's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- Starts at: $5.00 Per GB per month*
- Starting price
- 5.00
- Free plan or trial
- 30 days free, no credit card required
- Also from SolarWinds
- SolarWinds AppOptics, SolarWinds Backup, SolarWinds DDI, SolarWinds IP Address Manager, SolarWinds IPAM, SolarWinds Log Analyzer and 18 more
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 52 of the 59 answers that named SolarWinds Papertrail and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
199 of the 199 domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Papertrail 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 158 | 0 | 2026-03-03 | Logs, Infra monitoring | |
| Report or ebook | 9 | 0 | 2022-08-29 | ||
| Conference or event | 7 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 2 | 1 | 2026-09-02 | Observability |
Most recent
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- 2023-10-13How to live tail kubernetes logs blog
- 2023-09-12Logging in docker containers and live monitoring with papertrail blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page papertrail.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.