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Free Alternatives to New Relic (2026)
New Relic has a free tier, but if it does not fit, Here are 11 Cloud & DevOps tools you can start using for free, ranked by how closely they match New Relic, with what each charges once you outgrow the free plan.
Closest free matches
Ranked by shared use cases, audience and stack with New Relic. Every tool here lists a free plan.
Polylane connects your code, cloud and observability data so AI agents can detect production issues, trace the root cause and open a pull request with the fix; Polylane for Cloudflare covers Workers, D1, R2, Queues and more with one read-only token.
Radar is an Apache-2.0 Kubernetes UI from Skyhook that ships as a single binary and exposes a built-in MCP server, so coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor can inspect and safely act on clusters.
Error tracking, logs, traces, and product analytics in one place, readable by you and your coding agent. Free plan with 100k errors and 50 GB of logs a month, no card.
UPKira monitors websites, APIs, servers and cron jobs 24/7, confirms every failure with a second check, and alerts you via email, Slack, Discord, Teams or webhook. Free plan with 10 monitors.
telemetry.dev is a hosted LLM observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that shows each AI agent run as one trace of model calls, tool steps and retrievals, with token, cost and latency tracking, MCP analytics, alerts, prompt management and evals.
Render is a San Francisco cloud platform for deploying web services, workers, cron jobs, static sites, Postgres and Key Value stores from a Git repo, and now Render Sandboxes: isolated Firecracker microVMs that give every AI agent its own computer, filesystem and snapshots.
Beacon is an MIT-licensed tool from Asymptote Labs that captures session history from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode and 20+ other agent harnesses, normalizes it into one trace format, and turns useful workflows and corrections into reusable knowledge for future agents.
Inferock routes LLM calls through a measurement layer that records quality, latency, cost and failed calls, and offers serverless and dedicated inference with service credits for eligible failures.
Trigger.dev is an open-source (Apache 2.0) platform for writing long-running AI agents and background workflows in TypeScript, with retries, queues, realtime streaming, observability and managed or self-hosted infrastructure.
TraceX reads a support email or ticket, investigates your database, code and logs with read-only access, finds the root cause with cited evidence, and opens the fix as a pull request with a drafted customer reply. It also answers production questions in plain English and ships a CLI with a coding mode.
LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform for shipping software and AI agents behind flags, with progressive rollouts, automated rollbacks and built-in experimentation.
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Free alternatives to New Relic: FAQ
Quick answers to common questions
Is New Relic free?
Yes, New Relic offers a free tier. The tools below are alternatives that are also free to start.
What is the best free alternative to New Relic?
Polylane is the closest free match by shared use cases, audience and stack. Radar, LogBrew and UPKira are the next closest.
Which free Cloud & DevOps alternatives have paid upgrades?
LogBrew (from $25) list paid plans above their free tier. 10 of the tools listed publish no paid price at all.
How were these free alternatives to New Relic chosen?
Tools are ranked by similarity to New Relic (shared use cases, target audience, tech stack and pricing model) and filtered to those whose listing shows a free tier, freemium plan or open-source edition. Where fewer than 2 close matches exist, popular free Cloud & DevOps tools fill the list and are labelled as such.
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