DevLens vs New Relic
See how DevLens compares to New Relic in features, pricing, and capabilities.
DevLens is focused on simplifying your operations, and ensuring your observability and monitoring tools don't turn into a full time responsibility for your team. We're also honest about what you don't get. See how we stack up against New Relic below.
Pricing for a Team of 10 Engineers
Assumes 10 full-platform users and 100GB a month of data ingestion. DevLens Professional. As of 2025-10-30, an r7g.large EC2 instance with 1TB of disk is ~$160/mo.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Ours | New Relic |
|---|---|---|
| Error Tracking & Stack Traces | ||
| AI-Powered Anomaly Detection | ||
| Automatic Root Cause Analysis | ||
| 5-minute Setup | ||
| Unlimited Team Members | ||
| Alerting | ||
| Data Retention | 180 days | 15 days |
| API Rate Limits | Hardware limited | Throttled |
| Infrastructure Monitoring | ||
| APM (Application Performance Monitoring) | ||
| Real-time Performance Monitoring | ||
| Distributed Tracing | ||
| Log Management | ||
| Synthetic Monitoring | ||
| Real User Monitoring (RUM) |
Major Differences
Complexity
NewRelic helped define the APM market, and its feature set has grown significantly over time. It also has some odd, NewRelic-specific things, such as NRQL, their SQL-like language you must learn to query most of the data. This can be great for big teams who need the breadth, or it can be overwhelming for smaller ones. DevLens is focused on one core mission: error reporting. We integrate with others for the "rest".
Data Residency
DevLens hosts your data in your environment, no matter where it resides. Zero dependencies on Internet access.
Cloud-Only
Like almost all cloud solutions, NewRelic is ultimately in control of your data, and the parent company remains subject to US law. DevLens lets you choose who and where to host your data, be it within your environment, in the cloud, or under our oversight. Accidentally leak PII into the logs? With DevLens, the data never left your control.
Cost
NewRelic has made strides to simplify their pricing, but like all cloud-only solutions, still charges for data ingress. Want to leverage the full power of their AI solutions? You'll need to ingest a large amount of log data from your infrastructure, driving your price higher. By staying focused on error monitoring, DevLens keeps things predictable, and integrates with your infrastructure via MCPs to keep the amount of data moving low.
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