InfluxDB alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of InfluxDB, shown against it.

InfluxDB TimescaleDB QuestDB VictoriaMetrics Prometheus
Vendor InfluxData, Inc. Tiger Data, Inc. (formerly Timescale) QuestDB Technology Inc. VictoriaMetrics, Inc. Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans Open source + paid options
Free tier Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Yes (MIT) Yes (Apache-2.0) Yes (Apache-2.0) Yes (Apache-2.0) Yes (Apache-2.0)
Best for Teams building infrastructure, IoT or sensor monitoring systems that need a database purpose-built for time series. Teams already on PostgreSQL who need time-series performance without adopting a separate database. Teams needing very high write throughput for financial, IoT or metrics time-series data with SQL access. SRE and platform teams outgrowing Prometheus's storage or cardinality limits without changing their query language. Platform and SRE teams monitoring infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads, usually paired with Grafana for dashboards.
Pricing

Core is free and self-hosted; Enterprise and the managed Cloud Dedicated tier are custom-priced, and Cloud Serverless is metered by ingestion, query and storage usage with a starting free credit.

Core (OSS) Free
Cloud Serverless Usage-based
Enterprise / Cloud Dedicated Custom pricing

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

The self-hosted extension is free; the managed Tiger Cloud service starts at a flat monthly rate and scales with compute/memory, with a custom-priced Enterprise tier.

Performance From $30/month
Scale From $36/month
Enterprise Custom pricing

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

The open-source core is free; Enterprise and Cloud pricing require contacting sales, with no published rate card.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

The open-source database is free; Enterprise licensing is custom-quoted with no published price list.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Free and open source under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation; no first-party managed cloud version exists.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Columnar time-series storage on Arrow/Parquet
  • SQL and InfluxQL query support
  • High-throughput write ingestion
  • Built-in retention policies and downsampling
  • Telegraf agent for metrics collection
  • High availability and read replicas (Enterprise/Cloud Dedicated)
  • Automatic time-based partitioning (hypertables)
  • Native compression for time-series columns
  • Continuous aggregates (materialized rollups)
  • Full PostgreSQL SQL compatibility and joins
  • High availability and read replicas (Tiger Cloud)
  • Point-in-time recovery
  • High-throughput columnar ingestion
  • SQL with SAMPLE BY and ASOF JOIN extensions
  • InfluxDB line protocol and Postgres wire protocol support
  • SIMD-optimized vectorized query execution
  • Out-of-order data ingestion handling
  • High availability and RBAC (Enterprise)
  • PromQL/MetricsQL compatible querying
  • Prometheus remote-write, Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTelemetry ingestion
  • High compression for high-cardinality metrics
  • Single-node and horizontally scalable cluster modes
  • Long-term retention at lower storage cost than raw Prometheus
  • Downsampling and multi-tenancy (Enterprise)
  • Pull-based metrics scraping
  • Built-in time-series storage engine
  • PromQL query and alerting language
  • Service discovery for dynamic infrastructure
  • Alertmanager for routing and deduplicating alerts
  • Remote-write support to long-term storage backends

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