#11 in Monitoring & ObservabilityUpdated 2026-08

Grafana Pyroscope

by Pyroscope · Open source continuous profiling, aggregated and viewed in Grafana

67.9 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Grafana Pyroscope is an open source system for aggregating continuous profiling data, showing a workload's resource usage down to the source code line number. Applications send profiles through SDK instrumentation or auto-instrumentation with Grafana Alloy, and the data is viewed as flame graphs, tables and charts in the Pyroscope UI or Grafana. The server runs as horizontally scalable microservices.

Best for: Teams needing code-level resource profiling correlated with their existing Grafana observability data
Pricing: Pyroscope is open source with no price shown; the hosted Grafana Cloud Profiles service is free up to 50 GB per month with 14 days retention, then a $19 per month platform fee plus usage from $0.050/GB, with Enterprise from a $25,000 per year commit.
Runs on: Self-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Open source project you can run yourself
Profiles resource usage down to the source code line number
Correlates with metrics, logs and traces in Grafana
Flame graphs, tables and charts for analysing profiles

Trade-offs

Self-hosting means operating a multi-service, horizontally scaled system
Hosted free tier retains profiles 14 days; Pro only 30 days
Correlation benefits assume you already run a Grafana stack
Grafana Cloud Enterprise needs a $25,000 per year spend commit

Pricing

Published plans from Grafana Pyroscope’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.

Grafana Pyroscope pricing tiers, monthly rates in USD
Plan	Monthly	Includes
Free	Freeper account	All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage Limited to 50 GB profiles ingested per month 14 days retention Community support
Pro	$19platform fee plus usage	$19 per month platform fee, then pay as you go 50 GB profiles ingested per month included Usage from $0.050/GB process, $0.400/GB write, $0.100/GB retain 30 days retention and 8x5 email support
Enterprise	Contact sales	Minimum commit of $25,000 per year Custom retention Premium support Public Cloud, Federal Cloud or Bring Your Own Cloud deployment

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 60 out of 100
API quality: 55 out of 100
Documentation: 70 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 68 out of 100
Pricing transparency: 100 out of 100
Changelog: 100 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 60 out of 100
Operational trust: 25 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 65 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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