New Relic vs Evidently AI
Side-by-side comparison to help you choose the best tool.
New Relic
freemiumNew Relic is a full-stack observability platform offering APM, infrastructure monitoring, browser monitoring, and AI data through its New Relic AI assistant. Its 2023 pricing shift to a consumption model with a free tier made it significantly more accessible. New Relic AI allows engineers to ask natural language questions about their system health and get guided answers from their telemetry data.
Evidently AI
freeEvidently AI is an open-source ML monitoring and testing system that evaluates data and model quality, generates visual reports, and monitors drift in ML pipelines. It provides pre-built test suites and metrics for data drift, data quality, model performance, and target drift. Evidently integrates into CI/CD pipelines and monitoring workflows for continuous ML quality assurance.
| Feature | New Relic | Evidently AI |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | freemium | free |
| Category | - | - |
| Rating | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Best For | Engineering teams wanting full-stack observability with an AI assistant at a lower entry price than Datadog or Dynatrace | ML engineers who need complete model monitoring without vendor lock-in |
| Views | 6 | 5 |
Pros
- Most accessible pricing in enterprise APM
- New Relic AI makes telemetry accessible to non-experts
- Single platform replacing multiple tools
Cons
- Can get expensive above free tier data limits
- AI features still maturing versus Dynatrace Davis
Pros
- Fully open-source and free
- Rich visual reports out of the box
- Easy integration with existing pipelines
Cons
- Self-managed deployment required
- Limited real-time monitoring in open-source version
- New Relic AI natural language interface
- Full-stack APM & infrastructure monitoring
- Log management & analytics
- Browser & mobile monitoring
- Generous free tier (100GB/month)
- Data drift detection
- Model performance reports
- Pre-built test suites
- Visual HTML reports
- CI/CD pipeline integration