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aiAxonIQ vs New Relic

Open standards.
Without New Relic complexity.

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

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

Why teams switch

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.

Pricing at a glance

aiAxonIQ Growth
$49/mo
Unlimited users, unlimited hosts. Pricing based on data volume.
New Relic Pro
Per GB + per user
Per-GB ingest plus per-user seat pricing compounds quickly as teams and traffic grow.

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
Free tier (forever)
Up to 3 services
100 GB/month then pay per GB
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://ingest.aiaxoniq.com
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 a free tier that stays free for up to 3 services.

No proprietary agentPromQL-compatible queryingFree for up to 3 services

Switch from New Relic today

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

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Free tier · No credit card · OTLP-native · Self-host or cloud