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Application performance monitoring · September 2026 Edition

New Relic vs SigNoz

Eight of twelve models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; zero named SigNoz. New Relic was named by twelve of the twelve models and SigNoz by ten and New Relic carries 67 labels and SigNoz 23, so the shares are not directly comparable.

New Relic

endorsed leader

Named in five categories this edition.

SigNoz

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

First-choice share54%13%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate15%4%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#2A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.
Labels6723A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, New Relic reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.New Relic vs Datadog · SigNoz vs Datadog

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the application performance monitoring page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
New RelicFirst choices, of twelve modelsSigNoz
Direct80
Paraphrase71
Comparative00
Budget-constrained85
Scale-constrained202 against New Relic
Negative008 against New Relic · 1 against SigNoz
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where New Relic and SigNoz stood in it.

New Relic first, SigNoz an alternative

8 of 12 modelsSigNoz was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniNew Relic alternatives: AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud
Gemini 3.5 FlashNew Relic alternatives: Honeycomb, Sentry
Perplexity SonarNew Relic alternatives: Datadog, Dynatrace, ManageEngine Applications Manager / OpManager Nexus
Grok 4.1 FastNew Relic alternatives: Datadog, ManageEngine Applications Manager, SolarWinds
Mistral SmallNew Relic alternatives: Datadog
DeepSeek V4 FlashNew Relic alternatives: ManageEngine Applications Manager
Kimi K2New Relic alternatives: ManageEngine Applications Manager, SolarWinds
GLM 4.7 FlashXNew Relic alternatives: AppDynamics, Datadog, Grafana/Tempo, OpenObserve, OpenTelemetry, SigNoz, SolarWinds Applications Manager

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Qwen 3.7 FlashDatadog alternatives: IBM Instana, New Relic, Sentry

Neither was named

3 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
MiniMax M2.5ManageEngine Applications Manager, SolarWinds APM alternatives: Pandora FMS

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
New Relic leads by forty points.
New Relic51%#1 of 12
SigNoz11%#3 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
New Relic leads by forty-one points.
New Relic54%#1 of 10
SigNoz13%#2 of 10
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
New Relic leads by eleven points.
New Relic11%#3 of 8
SigNoz0%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about New Relic

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Pricing model confusion ... Stability concerns - users report "laughable" stability in some regions” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Price/performance leaders at your size are commonly New Relic (transparent per-GB ingest, generous free tier, easy to defend to finance)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“New Relic | Balanced features & predictable pricing | Generous free tier (100GB/month), strong NRQL analytics” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about SigNoz

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Self-hosted open-source stacks (e.g., Prometheus + Jaeger + Grafana or self-hosted SigNoz)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“If you need a completely free solution and have some technical expertise, SigNoz or Grafana + Prometheus are excellent choices.” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd strongly suggest SigNoz or the Prometheus + Grafana + Sentry combo — they're the most cost-effective at scale” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared
New Relic vs DatadogSigNoz vs DatadogThe full APM standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.