New Relic vs Prometheus
Nine of fourteen models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; zero named Prometheus. New Relic was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Prometheus by ten and New Relic carries 63 labels and Prometheus 19, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in eight categories this edition.
Named in seven 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 observability platforms page.
By framing
New RelicFirst choices, of fourteen modelsPrometheus
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, New Relic and Prometheus were named in the same answer 111 times, of the 720 answers naming New Relic and the 307 naming Prometheus. In those answers Prometheus took the first choice seven times and New Relic twenty-two.
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 Prometheus first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, New Relic on the left and Prometheus on the right.The direct prompt
New Relic first, Prometheus not the choice
9 of 14 modelsPrometheus was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
2 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
New Relic15%#2 of 12Prometheus2%#10 of 12New Relic27%#2 of 12Prometheus2%#8 of 12New Relic12%#3 of 10Prometheus0%#– of 10What 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.
“| New Relic/Datadog | SaaS | Limited free | High ($0.35/GB + users) | Avoid for tight budgets |” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“New Relic Why be cautious: - Complex pricing model” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
“New Relic is recommended for teams wanting all telemetry types on a single ingest meter with a genuinely useful free tier” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
What the models said about Prometheus
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Best zero‑cost solution: Deploy Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + Jaeger yourself on a cheap VM.” MiniMax M2.5 · budget 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.