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New Relic alternative

Open standards.
Without New Relic complexity.

New Relic's "free forever" hides GB-based pricing that bites at scale. aiAxonIQ gives you one quoted figure and true OTel-native from day one.

No per-seat feesevery engineer gets access on one usage-based plan

Why teams switch

Engineered for clarity and cost certainty

01
Simple usage-based pricing
New Relic charges per GB of ingest plus per-user seats. aiAxonIQ charges for data with ClickHouse columnar compression keeping retention affordable.
02
OpenTelemetry first
New Relic supports OTel but pushes its own agent. aiAxonIQ is 100% OTLP: no proprietary agent, ever.
03
Simpler plans
New Relic has Free, Standard, Pro, Enterprise tiers with complex entitlements. aiAxonIQ has three simple plans.

Feature comparison

Feature
aiAxonIQ
New Relic
OpenTelemetry native
Partial
Pricing model
Data volume
Per GB ingest + user seats
LLM observability
Log management
Distributed tracing
Metrics & Prometheus
Limited
Security monitoring
Extra cost
Custom dashboards
No vendor lock-in
PromQL support
Per-seat fees
None
Per-user pricing above the free tier
Self-hosted option
Data export
Always, any format
Limited
OTLP gRPC ingestion

Hover feature rows for notes. Competitor details based on publicly available information, verify against their current docs.

Migrate from New Relic

Switch in 3 steps

1

Create an aiAxonIQ account and get your license key

2

Replace the New Relic OTel exporter endpoint

# Before
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://otlp.nr-data.net

# After
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://app.aiaxoniq.com/otlp
3

Run both in parallel during migration; switch DNS when ready

The bottom line

Open standards without agent lock-in.

Your OpenTelemetry instrumentation works unchanged, aiAxonIQ ingests OTLP over HTTP and gRPC, plus Prometheus remote-write. No proprietary agent to install, no seat licenses to count, and one quoted figure instead of a per-GB meter.

No proprietary agentPromQL-compatible queryingNo per-seat or per-host fees

Switch from New Relic today

Connect your first service in under 5 minutes. Your New Relicinstrumentation keeps working while you evaluate.

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