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New Relic is a full-stack platform priced per full-platform user plus data. Maple is an open-source observability platform for traces, logs and metrics that ingests OpenTelemetry directly and charges for data volume.
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 | New Relic | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where they differ | |||
| Per-seat fees | Unlimited. Every engineer, on-call responder and manager gets a login. | Standard: $10 for the first full-platform user, then $99 each, capped at five. Pro: $349 per user per month on an annual commitment. 1 | Maple |
| Pricing model | $39 a month with 100 GB per signal included, then $0.30 per GB. | 100 GB free, then $0.40 per GB on Original Data or $0.60 on Data Plus, on top of user fees. 1 | Maple |
| Agents | None. OpenTelemetry SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Collector. | New Relic agents per language. OTLP is accepted, with some features available only through the agents. 2 | Maple |
| Source code | On GitHub under FSL-1.1, converting to Apache 2.0 two years after each release. | Proprietary. The agents are open source; the platform is not. | Maple |
| Self-hosting | Yes. Run it on your own infrastructure. | No. SaaS only. | Maple |
| Retention | 30 days on the cloud plan, longer on Enterprise, and your call when you self-host. | Eight days for traces and 30 for logs by default. Data Plus adds up to 90 days on most data types. 3 | Maple |
| Query languages | Visual builder across every signal, SQL through the API and the MCP server. | NRQL, a SQL-like language across all data types, with a mature query builder. | Even |
| AI and agents | Built-in diagnostics plus a hosted MCP server, so Claude, Cursor or any agent can query your telemetry. | New Relic AI and an MCP server. 4 | Even |
| Where New Relic is ahead | |||
| Synthetic monitoring | Not available. Alerts evaluate real traffic only. | Scripted browser and API checks from managed locations, included in the platform. 1 | New Relic |
| Frontend and mobile | Session replay tied to backend traces, web analytics from the browser SDK, and a Swift SDK. | Browser RUM with funnels and session traces, plus mobile agents for iOS and Android. 1 | New Relic |
| Integration catalog | OpenTelemetry receivers plus a catalog of connected providers: Cloudflare, Prometheus, PlanetScale, WarpStream, Hazel and GitHub. Kubernetes and Docker are agent installs. | Hundreds of quickstarts and agents, including legacy runtimes without OpenTelemetry support. 5 | New Relic |
| Application security | Not available. | Vulnerability management and IAST bundled into the platform. 1 | New Relic |
Price
A reference workload priced on both at list price. Change the sliders underneath for your own numbers.
Reference workload Full platform users 10 users · Total data volume 300 GB/mo
$39 per month
| Startup plan 100 GB per signal included | $39 |
|---|---|
| Team seats No per-seat fees | Free |
| Total | $39 |
$3.6k per month
| Full platform users Pro: 10 users × $349/mo (annual) | $3,490 |
|---|---|
| Data ingestion 300 GB (100 GB free) | $80 |
| Total | $3,570 |
$3.5k less per month on Maple · $42.4k a year
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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. New Relic is modeled on Standard ($10 for the first user, $99 each after, five at most) and Pro ($349 per user a month on an annual term) above five, with Original Data at $0.40/GB beyond 100 GB free. Data is split evenly across logs, traces and metrics.
Migration
Telemetry moves with one exporter change. Dashboards and alert rules don't cross vendors, so plan those as the real work.
Replace New Relic's language agents with OpenTelemetry SDKs. Auto-instrumentation covers the same frameworks, and the result is portable to any backend.
Point the Collector or the SDK exporter at Maple alongside New Relic's OTLP endpoint. Verify traces, logs and alerts in Maple before cutting over.
NRQL dashboards don't import. Rebuild the ones that matter in Maple's builder and map alert policies to alert rules; the MCP server can draft both.
exporters: otlp/newrelic: endpoint: https://otlp.nr-data.net:4317 headers: api-key: ${env:NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY} otlphttp/maple: endpoint: https://ingest.maple.dev headers: x-maple-ingest-key: ${env:MAPLE_INGEST_KEY} service: pipelines: traces: exporters: [otlp/newrelic, otlphttp/maple] logs: exporters: [otlp/newrelic, otlphttp/maple] metrics: exporters: [otlp/newrelic, otlphttp/maple]Sources
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Open-source, no per-host billing
→ 02One platform, nothing to assemble
→ 03Open source and self-hostable
→ 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.