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Best Elastic Agent Alternatives in 2026

Updated

20 apps from telemetry pipeline software ranked against Elastic Agent on the same published basis.

  1. 1
    Bindplane Free plan apiLinuxself-hostedWebWin $499/mo6.6
    Elastic Agent vs Bindplane
  2. 2
    Edge Delta Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb $20/mo6.6
    Elastic Agent vs Edge Delta
  3. 3
    syslog-ng Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWin Free6.6
    Elastic Agent vs syslog-ng
  4. 4
    Tenzir Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb Free6.6
    Elastic Agent vs Tenzir
  5. 5
    AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Free plan AndroidapiLinuxself-hostedWin Free6.5
    Elastic Agent vs AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
  6. 6
    Cribl Edge Free plan LinuxMacself-hostedWin Free6.5
    Elastic Agent vs Cribl Edge
  7. 7
    Cribl Stream Free plan apiLinuxself-hostedWeb Free6.5
    Elastic Agent vs Cribl Stream
  8. 8
    Fluent Bit Free plan LinuxMacself-hostedWin Free6.5
    Elastic Agent vs Fluent Bit
  9. 9
    Honeycomb Free plan AndroidapiiOSself-hostedWeb $150/mo6.5
    Elastic Agent vs Honeycomb
  10. 10
    NXLog Free plan WebWinMacLinux $12.12/mo6.5
    Elastic Agent vs NXLog
  11. 11
    OpenSearch Free plan apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb Free6.5
    Elastic Agent vs OpenSearch
  12. 12
    Grafana k6 Free plan Linux $19/mo6.4
    Elastic Agent vs Grafana k6
  13. 13
    Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline Free trial apiLinuxMacself-hostedWeb 5.7
    Elastic Agent vs Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline
  14. 15
    OpenTelemetry Collector LinuxMacself-hostedWin 5.6
    Elastic Agent vs OpenTelemetry Collector
  15. 16
    Vector LinuxMacself-hostedWin 5.6
    Elastic Agent vs Vector
  16. 17
    Grafana Alloy LinuxMacWin 5.4
    Elastic Agent vs Grafana Alloy
  17. 18
    rsyslog LinuxWin 5.3
    Elastic Agent vs rsyslog
  18. 19
    Apica Flow Web 5.2
    Elastic Agent vs Apica Flow
  19. 20
    DataBahn 5.2
    Elastic Agent vs DataBahn
  20. 21
    PacketRanger 5.2
    Elastic Agent vs PacketRanger

Elastic Agent alternatives compared

#AppScoreFree planFromRuns on
1Bindplane6.6Free plan$499/moAPI, Linux, self-hosted, Web, Windows
2Edge Delta6.6Free plan$20/moAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
3syslog-ng6.6Free planFreeAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
4Tenzir6.6Free planFreeAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web
5AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry6.5Free planFreeAndroid, API, Linux, self-hosted, Windows
6Cribl Edge6.5Free planFreeLinux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
7Cribl Stream6.5Free planFreeAPI, Linux, self-hosted, Web
8Fluent Bit6.5Free planFreeLinux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
9Honeycomb6.5Free plan$150/moAndroid, API, iOS, self-hosted, Web
10NXLog6.5Free plan$12.12/moWeb, Windows, Mac, Linux
11OpenSearch6.5Free planFreeAPI, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
12Grafana k66.4Free plan$19/moLinux
13Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline5.7No—API, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Web, Windows
15OpenTelemetry Collector5.6No—Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
16Vector5.6No—Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows
17Grafana Alloy5.4No—Linux, Mac, Windows
18rsyslog5.3No—Linux, Windows
19Apica Flow5.2No—Web
20DataBahn5.2No——
21PacketRanger5.2No——
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Questions about Elastic Agent alternatives

What is the best alternative to Elastic Agent?

Bindplane, number 1 in telemetry pipeline software with a score of 6.6 out of 10. The others here: Edge Delta, syslog-ng, Tenzir and 16 more.

What is the best free alternative to Elastic Agent?

Bindplane is the best-ranked alternative with a free plan. 12 of the 20 alternatives here publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.

How are these alternatives ranked?

Ranked free-and-open first: a usable free tier and open-source code, then the platforms it runs on and its documentation.