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Sematext
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As of 30 August 2026, Sematext is free to use. Sematext provides logs, APM, and infrastructure monitoring with AI-powered insights. Softwr lists it under Logging. Sematext is made by Sematext Group, launched in 2007, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Sematext does
Sematext provides logs, APM, and infrastructure monitoring with AI-powered insights.
What people use it for
- Centralised log management and search across services
- Infrastructure and application monitoring alongside logs
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Sematext.
- The $5 Basic plan caps ingestion at 500 MB a day and retains logs for 7 days
- Ingestion and storage are billed on separate meters, at $0.10 per GB received and $0.15 per GB stored
- Retention is a plan property rather than a setting, so keeping logs longer means moving tier
- The published pricing page renders Standard and Pro figures from unresolved template placeholders, so only the Basic numbers are actually readable
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Sematext
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- SematextvsDatadog Logs
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- SematextvsNew Relic
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- SematextvsCoralogix
Coralogix: Continuous Log Insights and Visibility
Pricing
What Sematext costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Log aggregation
- APM
- Metrics monitoring
Capabilities
Features
Log aggregation
APM
Metrics monitoring
Anomaly detection
API
Integration with API
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST
Integration with REST
Web support
Available on web
Api support
Available on api
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does Sematext cost?
Sematext uses a transparent usage-based pricing model. Customers can set a Max Daily Volume for automatic rejection of excess data to prevent unexpected charges and keep costs predictable. Specific tier pricing is available through their cost calculator tool.
SourceHow does Sematext's pricing compare to competitors?
Sematext is positioned as +3x cheaper than Datadog, with potential annual savings of $800,000 for customers logging more than 200TB/month and a reported 75% decrease in price per GB compared to alternatives.
SourceDoes Sematext offer a free trial?
Yes, Sematext offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, allowing you to test the platform before committing to a paid plan.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Sematext
- Company
- Sematext Group
- Based in
- United States
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- Sematext alternativesEvery product people weigh against it
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Best Logging software for
Compare Sematext with
- Datadog Logs
- Coralogix
- Elastic Stack
- New Relic
- Dynatrace Logs
- Axiom
- FireHydrant
- Mezmo
- Timber
- Grafana Loki
- Honeybadger
- Humio
- Loggly
- Logz.io
- Filebeat
- New Relic Logs
- Kibana
- Logstash
Other Logging software
Continuous Log Insights and Visibility
Free, then $0.42/GB (logs ingestion)10 researched notesAll-in-one incident management for alerting, on-call, and response
Free, then $25/responder-month11 researched notes
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