New Relic Mobile Monitoring

Name: New Relic Mobile Monitoring
Brand: New Relic
Rating: 4.5 (2748 reviews)

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Est 2007|Valuation $6.1B|Raised $385.3M

LinkedIn 188K|Website|Web traffic 1.3M|FTEs 3,034|HQ San Francisco, California, US

MarketsObservability Platform Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

- New Relic vs Dynatrace: Dynatrace publishes session-based DEM pricing and is often positioned for enterprise automation. New Relic offers an ingest-based pricing model with a free tier; some buyers report preferring Dynatrace’s per-session clarity for DEM scenarios. - New Relic vs Datadog: Both platforms have been described in community discussions as potentially costly at scale, but with different billing dynamics—New Relic’s pricing is ingest-driven while Datadog’s RUM and observability billing can involve multiple SKUs and retention considerations. Forecasting costs can be challenging in both cases without governance. - New Relic vs Sentry: Sentry is positioned as a focused error-tracking and developer-centric platform that has expanded into performance monitoring. For teams primarily focused on crash/error workflows and developer tooling, Sentry can be a simpler alternative; New Relic provides broader cross-infrastructure correlation and platform-level observability features.

	New Relic Mobile Monitoring	Dynatrace (Digital Experience Monitoring / Mobile RUM)	Datadog (RUM Mobile + APM)
Starting Price (public)	Free tier with limited ingest and limited user allowance; paid tiers are based on ingest and users. Published pricing details available from the vendor.	Vendor publishes session-based DEM pricing; published pricing details available from the vendor.	Published pricing uses multiple SKUs; billing includes session-based and feature-based RUM SKUs. Vendor pricing documentation provides details.
Recommended for	Teams seeking an integrated full-stack observability solution that covers mobile and backend services, with an ingest-based pricing model	Enterprises that use session-based DEM models and want an enterprise automation-focused solution	Teams already invested in the Datadog ecosystem, seeking integrated RUM concepts and instrumentation
Primary strengths	Integration across telemetry types; dashboards and alerting; server- and client-side session replay masking controls	Explicit per-session DEM pricing transparency and enterprise automation capabilities	Large ecosystem and mature product feature set; strong instrumentation for RUM and APM
Primary limitations	Costs can increase with ingest; learning curve for advanced queries and UI workflows; support experience varies by plan	Can be expensive; breadth of functionality may require significant effort to tune and adopt	Pricing complexity and multiple SKUs can make forecasting costs challenging

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

New Relic vs Dynatrace: Dynatrace publishes session-based DEM pricing and is often positioned for enterprise automation. New Relic offers an ingest-based pricing model with a free tier; some buyers report preferring Dynatrace’s per-session clarity for DEM scenarios.
New Relic vs Datadog: Both platforms have been described in community discussions as potentially costly at scale, but with different billing dynamics—New Relic’s pricing is ingest-driven while Datadog’s RUM and observability billing can involve multiple SKUs and retention considerations. Forecasting costs can be challenging in both cases without governance.
New Relic vs Sentry: Sentry is positioned as a focused error-tracking and developer-centric platform that has expanded into performance monitoring. For teams primarily focused on crash/error workflows and developer tooling, Sentry can be a simpler alternative; New Relic provides broader cross-infrastructure correlation and platform-level observability features.

	New Relic Mobile Monitoring	Dynatrace (Digital Experience Monitoring / Mobile RUM)	Datadog (RUM Mobile + APM)
Starting Price (public)	Free tier with limited ingest and limited user allowance; paid tiers are based on ingest and users. Published pricing details available from the vendor.	Vendor publishes session-based DEM pricing; published pricing details available from the vendor.	Published pricing uses multiple SKUs; billing includes session-based and feature-based RUM SKUs. Vendor pricing documentation provides details.
Recommended for	Teams seeking an integrated full-stack observability solution that covers mobile and backend services, with an ingest-based pricing model	Enterprises that use session-based DEM models and want an enterprise automation-focused solution	Teams already invested in the Datadog ecosystem, seeking integrated RUM concepts and instrumentation
Primary strengths	Integration across telemetry types; dashboards and alerting; server- and client-side session replay masking controls	Explicit per-session DEM pricing transparency and enterprise automation capabilities	Large ecosystem and mature product feature set; strong instrumentation for RUM and APM
Primary limitations	Costs can increase with ingest; learning curve for advanced queries and UI workflows; support experience varies by plan	Can be expensive; breadth of functionality may require significant effort to tune and adopt	Pricing complexity and multiple SKUs can make forecasting costs challenging