accepted challengerNamed in seven categories this edition.
accepted challengerNamed in eight categories this edition.
First-choice share8%3%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%11%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels1718A count; the two differ.
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 telemetry pipelines page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Grafana CloudFirst choices, of fourteen modelsNew Relic
Direct211 against New Relic
Paraphrase01
Comparative00
Budget-constrained201 against New Relic
Scale-constrained10
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Grafana Cloud and New Relic were named in the same answer 113 times, of the 196 answers naming Grafana Cloud and the 720 naming New Relic. In those answers New Relic took the first choice thirty-one times and Grafana Cloud fourteen.
The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Grafana Cloud and New Relic stood in it.
Grafana Cloud first, New Relic an alternative
2 of 14 modelsNew Relic was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.DeepSeek V4 FlashGrafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Cribl Stream, New Relic
GPT-6 LunaGrafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Datadog, Honeycomb
New Relic first, Grafana Cloud an alternative
1 of 14 modelsGrafana Cloud was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Muse Glimmer 30BCribl Stream, New Relic alternatives: Datadog, Edge Delta, Grafana Cloud, Middleware.io, OpenTelemetry Collector, SigNoz, Uptrace
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.Gemini 3.5 FlashOpenTelemetry Collector, PostHog, RudderStack alternatives: BindPlane OP, Cribl Stream, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb
xAIGrok 4.1 FastOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: ClickHouse Cloud, Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Loki, Honeycomb, Jaeger, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud, Prometheus, SigNoz, Tempo, Thanos, Uptrace, Vector
Z.AIGLM 4.7 FlashXGrafana Observability Stack alternatives: Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic
Neither was named
8 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice alternatives: OpenTelemetry Collector
GPT-5.4 miniOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Census, Google BigQuery, Hightouch, Looker, Metabase, RudderStack, Snowflake, Twilio Segment, dbt
Perplexity SonarGrafana Alloy alternatives: AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, Datadog Observability Pipelines, Edge Delta
Mistral SmallOpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline, Grafana LGTM, OpenObserve, Vector
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashVector alternatives: Cribl Stream, OpenTelemetry Collector
Kimi K2Cribl Stream, OpenTelemetry Collector alternatives: Fluent Bit, Vector
MiniMax M2.5Vector alternatives: Datadog
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.
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.