The main LogicMonitor competitors are Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, SolarWinds, Paessler PRTG and Progress WhatsUp Gold. On one reference estate of 40 servers, 20 network devices, 10 wireless access points and 5 engineers, LogicMonitor Essentials lists at $992 a month. Datadog lists at $780, SolarWinds Observability SaaS at $960.75, Dynatrace at about $1,218, New Relic at about $446 plus network ingest, and PRTG at $358.
Those are US list prices read from each vendor's own pricing page, and the arithmetic is ours with every step shown below. LogicMonitor calls its $16, $27 and $53 per Hybrid Unit figures starting prices based on standard minimum quantities and terms, and most of the others discount through sales, so read every number as where the quote starts, not where it ends. The point of pricing one estate is that it shows which billing model suits yours, which a feature grid never does.
LogicMonitor competitors priced on one estate
The estate: 40 servers, 20 switches and firewalls with about five interfaces each, 10 wireless access points and 5 engineers who need full access. On LogicMonitor that is 62 Hybrid Units, because each server and network device is one unit and five access points share one.
| Platform | How it bills | Reference estate, per month | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| LogicMonitor Essentials | $16 per Hybrid Unit | $992 (Advanced $1,674) | Hybrid infrastructure and networks, large teams |
| Datadog | Per host, per network device, per AP | $780 annual, $938 month to month | Cloud-first teams that want one agent everywhere |
| Dynatrace | Per host plus metered usage | About $1,218 (network devices billed by metric points) | Application performance and root cause analysis |
| New Relic | Per user plus $0.40 per GB | About $446 plus network ingest | Small teams with large, quiet fleets |
| SolarWinds Observability SaaS | $15.75 per node | $960.75 (Self-Hosted from $488) | Existing Orion shops and network-heavy estates |
| Paessler PRTG | Sensor tiers, billed annually | $358 (PRTG 1000) | On-prem network monitoring on a fixed budget |
| Progress WhatsUp Gold | Per device, annual | Quoted above 50 devices (Business from $1,229 a year for 50) | Windows shops that want per-device, unlimited sensors |
The New Relic figure assumes the 40 servers send about 5 GB a month each, so 200 GB, of which 100 GB is free. Dynatrace uses $29 per host for Infrastructure Monitoring and Dynatrace's own documented example of about $2.89 a month for a five-interface network device; access points have no published Dynatrace price. SolarWinds counts ten access points as one node. PRTG 1000 is the tier Paessler sizes at about 100 devices.
Datadog as the closest like-for-like alternative
Datadog is the LogicMonitor competitor most US teams price first, and on this estate it lists 21% lower on an annual commitment. The reason is network gear. Datadog charges $15 per infrastructure host, one dollar less than a LogicMonitor unit, but only $7 per network device and $4 per wireless access point, against LogicMonitor's full $16 per device. The more switches and firewalls you run, the wider that gap gets.
LogicMonitor wins back ground on bundling. Logs, NetFlow, topology and config change tracking sit inside every unit, while Datadog meters logs separately at $0.10 per GB ingested plus $1.70 per million indexed events. Our LogicMonitor vs Datadog comparison prices four estates where each one wins.
Dynatrace as the alternative when outages start in code
Dynatrace is the pick when the thing that breaks is your application rather than your network. Its Full-Stack tier bills memory at $0.01 per GiB per hour, so a 16 GiB server with code-level tracing is $116.80 a month, far above a $16 LogicMonitor unit. Infrastructure Monitoring at $29 a host is the fairer comparison and still costs $13 more per server. Where Dynatrace can undercut LogicMonitor is network devices with few interfaces, because it bills their SNMP data by the metric point rather than by the device. The LogicMonitor vs Dynatrace breakdown has the RAM ladder and the network math.
New Relic is cheapest for small teams and expensive for big ones
New Relic has no host fee at all. You pay $10 for the first full platform user, $99 for each of up to five on Standard, then $349 per user on Pro, plus $0.40 per GB of data past the free 100 GB. That makes it the cheapest LogicMonitor alternative on this estate, but only because the team is five people. A sixth engineer forces Pro and adds $1,688 a month.
The per-host line to remember is 40 GB: a server that sends 40 GB a month costs $16 in New Relic ingest, the same as one LogicMonitor Essentials unit. We priced five estates on both in LogicMonitor vs New Relic.
SolarWinds as the incumbent LogicMonitor usually replaces
Peer review sites list SolarWinds as LogicMonitor's most common competitor, and it is often the Orion install a team is weighing LogicMonitor against. SolarWinds Observability SaaS lists at $15.75 per node for network and infrastructure, almost exactly LogicMonitor's $16, and counts ten access points or three standalone VMs as one node, which can pull the bill lower on virtualized estates. Self-Hosted, the Orion successor, starts at $8 per node. Both are sold on multi-year contracts billed annually. Our SolarWinds pricing breakdown has every module price, and LogicMonitor vs SolarWinds prices six estates on both rate cards.
PRTG and WhatsUp Gold as the on-prem budget options
If the reason you are looking at LogicMonitor competitors is the bill, the two on-premises network monitors are the cheapest serious options. PRTG sells sensor tiers: $200 a month for 500 sensors, $358 for 1,000 and $742 for 2,500, billed annually, with support included. WhatsUp Gold sells per device with unlimited monitors on each, from $1,229 a year for 50 devices on Business.
Both trade LogicMonitor's SaaS model for a server you run yourself, and both price network gear in a way that suits different estates: a 48-port switch uses dozens of PRTG sensors but only one WhatsUp Gold device. The PRTG vs WhatsUp Gold comparison works out where each one is cheaper, and LogicMonitor vs PRTG pricing prices a 100-device network on both, including the switch-heavy case where the gap nearly closes.
What is the best alternative to LogicMonitor?
There is no single best one; it depends on which LogicMonitor strength you are willing to give up. Datadog is the closest overall match and lists lower on network-heavy estates. Dynatrace is better for application performance. New Relic is cheapest for teams of five or fewer. PRTG is cheapest if you are happy to run the server yourself.
Whichever you pick, the switch itself is a contract event. LogicMonitor prices on standard minimum terms and SolarWinds on multi-year agreements, so the date that matters most is often the renewal notice deadline, not the go-live. Teams that track renewal notice windows in their contract records avoid rolling into another year of the platform they meant to leave.
Who are LogicMonitor's main competitors for uptime monitoring?
For checking that public websites and APIs answer, the full platforms above are an expensive route. LM Uptime is an add-on on LogicMonitor Essentials and is bundled from Advanced, which on this 62-unit estate is an $11 per unit step, $682 a month. Dynatrace meters synthetic requests at $0.001 each per location, $43.83 a month for one URL checked every minute from one place. New Relic ping monitors are free and unlimited, which beats everyone on price for a plain up or down check, but its API and browser checks cost $0.005 each past the included allowance.
A dedicated uptime service does that one job for a flat fee. AlertPing checks websites, APIs, TCP ports, SSL certificates and cron heartbeats from two regions, confirms every failure from a second region before it alerts, and includes SMS, email, Slack and webhook alerts plus a public status page on every plan. Starter is $49 a month for 20 monitors at 60-second checks, and Team is $59 for 100 monitors at 30 seconds. It does not replace LogicMonitor inside your network; it covers what your customers see from outside. The uptime monitoring pricing comparison lines it up against fifteen vendors.
How to shortlist LogicMonitor competitors
Start with the unit your estate has most of. If it is network devices, price Datadog's $7 device rate and PRTG's sensor tiers against LogicMonitor's $16 unit. If it is servers with applications on them, price Dynatrace Full-Stack against your real RAM sizes. If it is engineers, price New Relic's seats before anything else. Then ask each vendor two questions in writing: the minimum quantity and term behind the list price, and what is billed separately for logs and external checks. Those two answers move a quote more than any discount.
Is Datadog cheaper than LogicMonitor?
On list price, usually yes for network-heavy estates. Datadog charges $15 per host, $7 per network device and $4 per access point on annual billing, against $16 for any LogicMonitor unit. On our reference estate that is $780 against $992. Datadog's separate log charges can close the gap if you ingest a lot of logs.
Is LogicMonitor cheaper than SolarWinds?
Roughly level on SaaS list price: $16 per Hybrid Unit against $15.75 per SolarWinds node. SolarWinds Self-Hosted starts lower at $8 per node but runs on your own servers. SolarWinds counts three standalone VMs or ten access points as one node, so virtualized estates often price lower there.
Does LogicMonitor have a free version?
No. LogicMonitor offers a 15-day free trial of any package but has no permanent free tier. Among its competitors, New Relic has a perpetual free tier with one full user and 100 GB a month, and WhatsUp Gold has a free edition limited to 10 devices.