New Relic vs Grafana
Two of fourteen models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; one named Grafana. New Relic was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Grafana by twelve and New Relic carries 49 labels and Grafana 33, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in eight categories this edition.
Named in five categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen 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 infrastructure monitoring page.
By framing
New RelicFirst choices, of fourteen modelsGrafana
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, New Relic and Grafana were named in the same answer 214 times, of the 720 answers naming New Relic and the 292 naming Grafana. In those answers Grafana took the first choice forty-three times and New Relic twenty-six.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | |||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | |||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | ||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | |||
| Kimi K2 | | | | | ||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | | ||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | ||||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | | ||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | |
New Relic Grafana first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, New Relic on the left and Grafana on the right.The direct prompt
New Relic first, Grafana an alternative
2 of 14 modelsGrafana was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Grafana first, New Relic an alternative
1 of 14 modelsNew Relic was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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
Grafana12%#4 of 14New Relic5%#7 of 14New Relic16%#3 of 13Grafana4%#6 of 13What the models said about New Relic
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Avoid SaaS like Datadog/New Relic (start at $15+/host/month, costs explode)” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“Offers a simpler pricing model than Datadog... strong, unified platform that is often much easier to budget for at a 500-person scale.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
What the models said about Grafana
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“The Open-Standard / Developer-Preferred (Highly Recommend for 2026) * Grafana Cloud: Excellent for engineering-driven cultures.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.