4 categories · RankedUptrace
Uptrace is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for tracing, metrics and logs, aimed at teams that want to lower observability costs and simplify their stack · uptrace.dev ↗
Why models recommend it
“Open-source backends (Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, SigNoz, Uptrace) | No proprietary lock-in, portable data”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“From $30/month (or free self-hosted open-source version)... offers strong value for small teams scaling up”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“use low-cost SaaS options like Grafana Cloud or Uptrace for further savings and scalability”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Uptrace – Low-cost OTel APM: Uptrace – ClickHouse-backed, simple, no frills.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Uptrace, over the 27 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 3 | View → | |
| 16 | 7 | View → | |
| 14 | 5 | View → | |
| 13 | 2 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 7 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Uptrace's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Teams choose Uptrace to cut observability costs, simplify their stack, and debug faster without sacrificing features or scale.
- Price stated
- Pay per GB ingested and active timeseries. No per-seat fees, no hidden charges, no usage spikes that break your budget.
- Starting price
- $0
- Free plan or trial
- Free for 14 days, no credit card required. Self-host Uptrace Community Edition for free forever with no limits. Or use Uptrace Cloud free up to 50 GB and 5,000 timeseries per month.
- Certifications
- SOC 2
- Hosting
- Germany, Finland
- Customers named
- Because Intelligence, BonApp, Corva, Datatailr, Decisions, Faculty, Fifteen, Flowbox
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 27 of the 27 answers that named Uptrace and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-eight of the eighty-eight domain citations in answers naming Uptrace 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 133 | 0 | 2026-06-26 | ||
| Blog | 67 | 0 | 2026-05-06 | APM, Logs | |
| Comparison | 40 | 0 | 2026-03-30 | ||
| Template or tool | 19 | 0 | 2026-05-13 | APM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 17 | 0 | 2026-03-30 | Infra monitoring |
Most recent
- 2026-06-26Opentelemetry docker report or ebook
- 2026-05-13Opentelemetry flask report or ebook
- 2026-05-13Opentelemetry kafka report or ebook
- 2026-05-13Opentelemetry redis report or ebook
- 2026-05-13Website monitoring tools template or tool
- 2026-05-06Golang functional options blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page uptrace.dev 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. Read September 29, 2026.