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Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for OpenTelemetry vs Sematext Tracing

Both stand on distributed tracing tools. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for OpenTelemetry

Paid Web

Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for OpenTelemetry combines OpenTelemetry support and service maps with cloud delivery. Its storage windows differ by telemetry type, and paid usage with regional pricing should be considered before choosing it.

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Sematext Tracing

Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+5

Sematext Tracing combines OpenTelemetry ingestion, detailed trace investigation, service mapping, and alerting. Teams should consider the one-day retention listing, unavailable tail-based sampling, and usage-based span pricing.

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The facts

	Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for OpenTelemetry	Sematext Tracing
Free plan	No	A free trial
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Web	Android, API, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Web, Windows
Lowest paid plan	See the plans	Free or on request
Plans published	1	3
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	alibabacloud.com	sematext.com
On distributed tracing tools	#29 of 32	#25 of 32

Alibaba Cloud Managed Service for OpenTelemetry: what it does well

OpenTelemetry support
Service maps included
50 GB monthly free ingestion quota
90 days of metrics storage
Cloud deployment

What to know first

No free plan
Usage-based pricing
Profiling storage lasts 7 days
Prices vary by region

Sematext Tracing: what it does well

OpenTelemetry support
Service Map for dependencies
Searches traces by multiple attributes
Includes latency percentiles and RED metrics
14-day trial without credit card

What to know first

No free plan
One-day trace retention listed
Tail-based sampling is unavailable
Pricing depends on span volume

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