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aiAxonIQ vs Grafana Cloud

One platform.
Not 6 stitched together.

Grafana Cloud is powerful but fragmented — Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, separate agents, separate configs. aiAxonIQ is one cohesive platform.

One platforminstead of Mimir + Loki + Tempo stitched together

Why teams switch

01
One cohesive platform
Grafana Cloud requires separate products (Mimir, Loki, Tempo) with different configs and query languages. aiAxonIQ is one unified system.
02
Built-in AI insights
Grafana has no native LLM observability. aiAxonIQ includes LLM Insights in every plan.
03
Managed infrastructure
Grafana OSS requires you to run and scale Mimir/Loki/Tempo yourself. aiAxonIQ is fully managed — or self-host the whole platform with one deployment.

Pricing at a glance

aiAxonIQ Growth
$49/mo
All signals, all features, fully managed.
Grafana Cloud Pro
$8/seat + usage
Plus separate usage costs for logs (Loki), traces (Tempo), and metrics above the free tier.

Feature comparison

Feature
aiAxonIQ
Grafana Cloud
Unified platform
Log management
Distributed tracing
Metrics (Prometheus)
LLM observability
Security monitoring
Extra cost
OpenTelemetry native
PromQL support
Single query language
No vendor lock-in
Free tier (forever)
Up to 3 services
Limited free tier
Fully managed
Partial
Alert correlation
Limited
Drag-and-drop dashboards

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

Migrate from Grafana Cloud

Switch in 3 steps

1

Add aiAxonIQ as an additional remote_write target in Grafana Agent

remote_write:
  - url: https://app.aiaxoniq.com/otlp/api/v1/prom/write
    headers:
      x-license-key: YOUR_KEY
2

Rebuild your core dashboards in the drag-and-drop builder — nine panel types cover the common Grafana panels

3

Migrate alerts and reduce Grafana Cloud spend incrementally

The bottom line

One system instead of a stitched-together stack.

aiAxonIQ writes every signal to one ClickHouse backend through one Kafka-backed ingest pipeline. No Mimir-vs-Loki-vs-Tempo configs, no three query languages, no per-product billing lines — and you can still self-host the entire platform if that is how your team runs.

One backend: ClickHouseOne durable ingest pipeline: KafkaSelf-host with Docker Compose or Kubernetes

Switch from Grafana Cloud today

Connect your first service in under 5 minutes. No credit card required. Free tier includes 3 services forever.

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