Grafana Cloud vs Statsig
Fully-managed observability — Prometheus + Loki + Tempo + Grafana
vs. Feature management + experimentation + analytics — ex-Facebook team
Pricing tiers
Grafana Cloud
Free
Always free. 10k metrics series + 50 GB logs/traces/profiles + 3 users + 14-day retention.
Free
Self-Hosted (OSS)
Apache 2.0 / AGPL. Run Grafana + Mimir + Loki + Tempo yourself.
$0 base (usage-based)
Pro
$19/mo platform fee + usage-based overages. 10k metrics series + 50 GB included. 13-month metrics retention.
$19/mo
Enterprise
$25,000/year minimum. Custom retention, premium support, BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) option.
$25000/mo
Statsig
Developer (Free)
2M events/mo. Unlimited flag checks + configs. 50K session replays. 1-year retention. Unlimited seats.
Free
Pro
$150/month. 5M events included ($0.05 per 1K additional). Advanced experimentation + analytics. Unlimited retention.
$150/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Warehouse Native deploy. Outgoing data integrations. SSO, RBAC, HIPAA. Priority support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Grafana Cloud vs developer on Statsig.
| Metric | Grafana Cloud | Statsig |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Grafana Cloud · 16 features
- Alloy (OTel agent) — Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector with Grafana additions.
- Application Platform — Infrastructure + k8s + frontend + cloud provider integrations.
- Beyla (eBPF auto-instrumentation) — Zero-code auto-instrumentation via eBPF for any language.
- Faro (RUM) — Frontend observability — traces, logs, Core Web Vitals.
- Grafana in Azure Marketplace — "Azure Managed Grafana" — Azure-native deployment.
- Grafana Incident — Incident management with Slack-native flows.
- Grafana OnCall — On-call scheduling + incident response (powered by Amixr).
- Grafana SLO — Service level objective tracking + error budget visualization.
- Grafana (visualization) — Dashboards, variables, alerting, annotations over any datasource.
- k6 (synthetic + load testing) — Load testing + synthetic monitoring. JavaScript-based scripts.
- Loki (logs) — Prometheus-inspired log aggregation with LogQL.
- Mimir (metrics) — Horizontally-scalable Prometheus-compatible TSDB.
- Pyroscope (profiling) — Continuous profiling (CPU, memory, etc.).
- Self-Host Option — Full OSS stack deployable in your infra.
- Tempo (traces) — High-scale distributed tracing with TraceQL.
- Unified Alerting — Grafana-native alerting across metrics, logs, traces.
Statsig · 14 features
- Alerts — Metric threshold + anomaly alerts to Slack/PagerDuty.
- Autocapture — Zero-config click + pageview tracking.
- Dynamic Configs — JSON config with targeting — remote config.
- Experiments (A/B/n) — Full-factorial + sequential + holdouts. Bayesian + frequentist stats.
- Feature Gates — Boolean flags with targeting rules, gradual rollout, custom attributes.
- Layers — Mutually-exclusive experiment containers for traffic budget management.
- Metrics Catalog — Define reusable metrics with guardrails.
- Outgoing Data Sync — Sync events to warehouses. Enterprise.
- Product Analytics — Funnels, retention, segments, dashboards — integrated with flags.
- RBAC + SSO — Role-based access, SAML SSO. Enterprise.
- Segments / Audiences — Reusable targeting groups.
- Session Replay — DOM + network replays, 50K/mo free.
- Warehouse Native — Enterprise: run Statsig in your data warehouse (Snowflake/BQ/Databricks/Redshift…
- Web Analytics — Pageviews, sources, devices, Core Web Vitals.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Grafana Cloud | Statsig |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Grafana Alloy (agent), grafana-cli | — |
| SDK | Faro Web SDK (RUM) | go-sdk, statsig-android, statsig-erlang, statsig-ios-client-sdk, statsig-java-server-sdk, statsig-js (browser), statsig-node-server-sdk, statsig-python-core |
| REST | Grafana HTTP API, Loki Push API | Events Ingest API, Statsig Console API |
| OTHER | Prometheus Remote Write, Tempo OTLP | Webhooks |
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