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7 tools compared: how each is priced, where it runs, and what to consider instead.
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Better Stack Developer-friendly SaaS combining log/trace analytics, uptime monitoring and incident management with transparent per-GB pricing. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| Elasticsearch Distributed search and analytics engine underlying the ELK stack, used for log analytics, full-text search and, via Elastic Security, SIEM. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| Grafana Loki Open-source log aggregation system that indexes only metadata labels, designed to pair cheaply with Grafana dashboards. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Graylog Self-hostable log management platform with a free source-available core and paid Enterprise/Security tiers billed by daily volume. | Free tier + paid | Yes | Yes |
| OpenSearch Open-source fork of Elasticsearch/Kibana for log analytics and search, now governed under the Linux Foundation. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Splunk Long-established platform for indexing and searching machine data at scale, used for both IT log analytics and SIEM. | Quote only | No | No |
| Sumo Logic Cloud-native SaaS log analytics platform with a credits-based consumption model covering logs, metrics and security. | Quote only | No | No |