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Dash0 and Maple start from the same place: OpenTelemetry in, usage-based pricing, no per-seat fees for observability, an MCP server for agents. The difference is ownership: Maple is open source and you can self-host it, while Dash0 is a closed SaaS.
Differences
The marker beside each row shows which tool is ahead on it. Rows where both do the same thing are grouped into one line at the end.
| Topic | Maple | Dash0 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where they differ | |||
| Source code | On GitHub under FSL-1.1, converting to Apache 2.0 two years after each release. | Closed. Dash0 open-sources its OpenTelemetry distribution and Kubernetes operator, not the platform. 2 | Maple |
| Self-hosting | Yes. Run the whole platform on your own infrastructure, including your own ClickHouse. | No. SaaS only, in Dash0-operated regions. | Maple |
| Pricing model | $39 a month with 100 GB per signal included, then $0.30 per GB. | Per data point: $0.60 per million spans or log records ($0.06 ingestion plus $0.54 storage at 30-day retention) and $0.20 per million metric data points ($0.02 plus $0.18 at 13-month retention). 1 | Even |
| AI and agents | Built-in diagnostics plus a hosted MCP server. | An MCP server and AI-assisted views. | Even |
| Where Dash0 is ahead | |||
| Retention | 30 days on the cloud plan, longer on Enterprise, and your call when you self-host. | 30 days for spans, logs and web events and 13 months for metrics, included in the storage rate. 1 | Dash0 |
| Synthetic monitoring | Not available. Alerts evaluate real traffic only. | Synthetic API checks at $0.20 per thousand runs, retained 13 months. 1 | Dash0 |
| PromQL compatibility | No PromQL. Visual builder and SQL. | PromQL for metrics and Perses-based dashboards-as-code. 3 | Dash0 |
| Kubernetes tooling | Kubernetes monitoring through the OpenTelemetry Collector. No operator of Maple's own. | A Kubernetes operator and an OpenTelemetry distribution, both maintained in the open. 2 | Dash0 |
Price
A reference workload priced on both at list price. Change the sliders underneath for your own numbers.
Reference workload Spans / mo 100 M · Log records / mo 100 M · Metric data points / mo 500 M
$39 per month
| Startup plan 100 GB per signal included | $39 |
|---|---|
| Team seats No per-seat fees | Free |
| Total | $39 |
$220 per month
| Spans 100M × $0.60/M | $60 |
|---|---|
| Logs 100M × $0.60/M | $60 |
| Metrics 500M × $0.20/M | $100 |
| Total | $220 |
$181 less per month on Maple · $2.2k a year
Adjust for your usage
List prices checked September 2026. Sources at the foot of the page. Maple pricing based on the Startup plan ($39/mo with 100 GB included per signal (logs, traces, metrics), then $0.30/GB, billed per signal), metered on uncompressed (decoded OTLP) bytes. Dash0 bills per data point, ingestion plus storage at the default retention. The Maple estimate converts at 1 KB per span or log record and 0.1 KB per metric data point; your ratio depends on attribute sizes.
Migration
Telemetry moves with one exporter change. Dashboards and alert rules don't cross vendors, so plan those as the real work.
Both platforms ingest standard OTLP, so SDKs, auto-instrumentation and semantic conventions carry over unchanged.
Add Maple next to the Dash0 exporter in the Collector and ship to both while you verify.
Dashboards, saved views and alert rules don't travel over OTLP. Rebuild the ones that matter in Maple; the MCP server can draft them.
exporters: otlp/dash0: endpoint: ingress.eu-west-1.aws.dash0.com:4317 headers: Authorization: Bearer ${env:DASH0_AUTH_TOKEN} otlphttp/maple: endpoint: https://ingest.maple.dev headers: x-maple-ingest-key: ${env:MAPLE_INGEST_KEY} service: pipelines: traces: exporters: [otlp/dash0, otlphttp/maple] logs: exporters: [otlp/dash0, otlphttp/maple] metrics: exporters: [otlp/dash0, otlphttp/maple]Sources
Vendor facts on this page link to the vendor's own pages and carry the month they were last checked. If one is stale, tell us.
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Open-source, no per-host billing
→ 02One platform, nothing to assemble
→ 03OTel-native, no per-user fees
→ 04Issues, session replay, one local binary
→ 05Issues, session replay, self-hosting
→ 06Source code, self-hosting, local mode
→ 07Session replay, self-hosting, price per GB
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Point one exporter at Maple and run both for a week. The free trial needs a card, with no charge until it ends.