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Logs, metrics and traces.
One product, no per-host fees.

Splunk Observability Cloud is priced per host per month across tiered bundles, and self-managed logs live in a separate product, Splunk Enterprise. aiAxonIQ keeps every signal in one platform, priced on data, cloud or self-hosted.

No per-host feesone data-volume plan for every signal

Why teams switch

Engineered for clarity and cost certainty

01
Priced on data, not hosts
Autoscaling clusters do not change your bill by the hour. Add hosts freely and pay for the telemetry you keep.
02
One product for every signal
Logs, metrics and traces share one store and one query surface, instead of Observability Cloud plus Splunk Enterprise for logs.
03
Self-host the whole stack
Run aiAxonIQ in your own cluster end to end. Splunk Observability Cloud itself is SaaS only.

Feature comparison

Feature
aiAxonIQ
Splunk
OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingest
Pricing model
Data volume
Per host / month
Logs in the same product
Via Splunk Enterprise or Cloud
Distributed tracing (APM)
Real user monitoring
Query language
PromQL + SQL
SignalFlow and SPL (proprietary)
Zero-code eBPF capture
Self-hosted option
Logs only (Splunk Enterprise)
LLM observability

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

Migrate from Splunk

Switch in 3 steps

1

Sign up and get your license key

curl https://app.aiaxoniq.com/otlp/health -H "x-license-key: YOUR_KEY"
2

Point your OpenTelemetry SDK or Collector at aiAxonIQ (one environment variable)

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

Repoint the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector exporter at aiAxonIQ, or swap in the upstream Collector

The bottom line

Open standards, one store, one bill.

Splunk is a major OpenTelemetry contributor, and its Collector distribution shows it. The difference is the shape around it: aiAxonIQ keeps logs, metrics and traces in one product, prices on data instead of hosts, and runs in your own cluster if you need it to.

OTLP over HTTP and gRPCNo per-host or per-seat feesSelf-host with Docker Compose or Kubernetes

Switch from Splunk today

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

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