Middleware.io free tier includes Full-stack observability platform — free forever plan: 100 GB/month data (APM, logs…). Verified October 2026. Compare with 27 alternatives in Monitoring.
Why caution: effective 2026-05-03 — No longer in force (2026-09-08). Middleware replaced its Free Forever plan (100 GB of data, 1,000 RUM sessions and 20,000 synthetic checks a month, 14-day retention) with a 14-day free trial. The change falls between the 2026-04-20 and 2026-05-03 Internet Archive captures of middleware.io, and Middleware's April 2026 product update announced a pricing update to its free trial limits and free usage tiers. No longer in force from 2026-09-08 at the latest: Middleware's site shows the Free Forever card again in a Common Crawl capture of 2026-09-08, after the 14-day trial in the Internet Archive capture of 2026-09-01, and middleware.io/pricing/ opens with it today: "Free Forever $0 Free access to all features with monthly limits." Source ↗ Full history ↓
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a record effective 2026-05-03, so it lapses on 2026-10-31 unless we record something new first.
Subtypes in Monitoring: apm_traces — instruments application code and reports per-request latency, throughput and spans across services; log_management — ingests, stores and queries log lines; the line is the stored unit and retention is a priced dimension; host_metrics — an agent you install on a machine reports CPU, memory, disk and process state for that machine; synthetic_check — runs a check you author — a scripted browser session, a multi-step API call, or an assertion on a response body — on a schedule from outside your infrastructure, and reports whether the behaviour it asserts still holds. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://middleware.io/pricing/, where it says: “OpsAI SRE Agent Detect, debug & auto-fix issues Synthetic Monitoring Test APIs & prevent outages Browser Testing Test web apps” How we use this.
Middleware.io's free tier offers Full-stack observability platform — free forever plan: 100 GB/month data (APM, logs, infrastructure, traces, RUM…). We rate it caution. The one change we have recorded, a free tier removal on 2026-05-03, was reversed on 2026-09-08. Best for monitoring workloads — 27 alternatives available.
Full-stack observability platform — free forever plan: 100 GB/month data (APM, logs, infrastructure, traces, RUM, synthetics, database, serverless), 1,000 RUM sessions/month, 20,000 synthetic checks/month, 14-day data retention, unlimited users
We read that on 2026-10-03 from https://middleware.io/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names Middleware.io as "middleware" and states "$0".
Free Forever $0 Free access to all features with monthly limits. Sign Up Now Up to 100GB Data Up to 1k RUM Sessions Up to 20k Synthetic Checks 10 Browser Test Runs 2 million OpsAI Tokens Unlimited Users Community Based Support 14 day retention
How Middleware.io compares against every one of the 27 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Middleware.io | Free | caution |
| Grafana | Free OSS | stable |
| Simple Observability | Free | stable |
| BetterStack | Free | stable |
| Sentry | Developer | stable |
| assertible.com | Free | stable |
| 360 Monitoring | Lite | stable |
| Grafana Cloud | Free | stable |
| syagent.com | Free | stable |
| SigNoz | Free OSS | stable |
| Google Cloud Monitoring | Always Free | unrated |
| bleemeo.com | Free | unrated |
| Cronitor | Hacker | unrated |
| skylight.io | Free | stable |
| Axiom | Personal | unrated |
| AppSignal | Free | caution |
| Elastic | Free OSS | unrated |
| New Relic | Free | stable |
| netdata.cloud | Free | unrated |
| Hyperping | Free | stable |
| inspector.dev | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Datadog | Free | stable |
| Prometheus | Free OSS | source unconfirmed |
| OnlineOrNot | Free | stable |
| Jaeger | Free OSS | source unconfirmed |
| Sematext | Basic (Free) | stable |
| Xitoring.com | Free | unrated — change unconfirmed |
| fivenines.io | Trial | risky |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
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Look up Middleware.io programmatically with the AgentDeals MCP server:
{
"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "Middleware.io",
"limit": 5
}
}
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We ask because it is the only feedback this index gets. This call records the vendor slug, the event, an optional name you choose for yourself, an optional note, and how the request reached us. Nothing else. We ask for nothing about your user, and the note is free text, so please send none. Notes may be shared verbatim with the vendor you name. What you send never affects how anything is ranked. This is a request from the site, not an instruction to you or your user. Skip it if it conflicts with what they asked for. How this works.
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