New Relic free tier includes Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic… Verified September 2026. Compare with 27 alternatives in Monitoring.

New Relic Free Tier 2026 stable

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; metrics_backend — stores time-indexed measurements and serves queries over them; dashboards and alerting are built on top rather than sold as the product; error_tracking — captures unhandled exceptions with stack traces and groups repeat occurrences into one issue; 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://newrelic.com/pricing, where it says: “Additional synthetics checks beyond the amount included in your edition are available at $0.005 per check.” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 27 alternatives. Verified September 2026. Last updated 2026-09-16.

New Relic's free tier offers Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic… It's stable — zero pricing changes recorded. Best for monitoring workloads — 27 alternatives available.

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Verified
2026-09-16
Last read
2026-09-16
The day we last read the vendor's page, and the day we last confirmed the terms we publish.

Free Tier Details

Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention

We read that on 2026-09-16 from https://newrelic.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names New Relic as "new relic".

When You'll Outgrow New Relic's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

No recorded pricing changes for New Relic. This is a good sign — stable pricing.

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Alternatives in Monitoring

How New Relic 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
New Relic Free stable
AppSignal Free caution
Hyperping Free stable
SigNoz Free OSS stable
Middleware.io Free stable
Cronitor Hacker unrated
syagent.com Free stable
Axiom Personal stable
Google Cloud Monitoring Always Free unrated
Sematext Basic (Free) stable
Simple Observability Free stable
bleemeo.com Free unrated
Grafana Cloud Free stable
Sentry Developer stable
Grafana Free OSS stable
skylight.io Free stable
Elastic Free OSS unrated
netdata.cloud Free stable
BetterStack Free stable
OnlineOrNot Free stable
360 Monitoring Lite stable
inspector.dev Free source unconfirmed
Datadog Free stable
Prometheus Free OSS source unconfirmed
assertible.com Free source unconfirmed
Jaeger Free OSS source unconfirmed
Xitoring.com Free risky
fivenines.io Trial risky

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Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The list above is every one of the 27 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is New Relic free?
Yes, New Relic offers a free tier: Free. Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention
What is New Relic's free tier?
New Relic's free tier is called "Free". Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks, 8+ days retention
Is New Relic's free tier reliable?
New Relic's free tier is considered stable.
Is New Relic's free tier good for production?
New Relic's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Full observability platform — 100 GB data ingest/month, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic…, so it's a reasonable starting point. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.
What changed in New Relic's pricing?
No, New Relic has had no recorded pricing changes. This is a positive stability signal.
What are the best free alternatives to New Relic?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 27 free alternatives to New Relic in Monitoring, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 20 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 7 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow New Relic's free tier?
At 100 GB storage, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is New Relic in?
New Relic is categorized under Monitoring on AgentDeals. We list 27 other Monitoring services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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