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Papertrail vs Simple Observability

See how their public offers line up before you choose your own position. Prices stay in the currency, billing schedule, and charged unit each vendor publishes.

USD · US · source: www.papertrail.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Log Observability Highlighted
USD 5 per GB

Starts at: $5.00 Per GB per month*

Usage · Per GB per month Standalone · Usage based

Simple Observability

USD · US · source: simpleobservability.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Cloud
USD 3 monthly

Paid Simple, predictable pricing for all your production servers. $3 / month per server Get Started ● 100 metrics per server ● High log volume ● Unlimited servers

Flat · per month Standalone · Fixed

What each plan includes

Feature names follow each vendor’s own pricing page, so verify the wording before treating them as exact equivalents.

Papertrail

Log Observability

Highlights

Intuitive Web-based log viewer

Included

Highlights

Team-wide groups & searches

Included

Highlights

Unlimited systems & users

Included

Highlights

Encrypted logging

Included

Highlights

Long-term archive

Included

Highlights

REST API

Included

Highlights

Search alerts

Included

Simple Observability

Cloud

Plan card

● 100 metrics per server

Included

Plan card

● High log volume

Included

Plan card

● Unlimited servers

Included

How their prices changed

Each date shows when a public price was observed, not when it took effect. An archived region or currency can differ, so a currency change is not necessarily a price increase.