how sixty compares
Everyone else sells you a platform.
Sixty is not a platform and does not try to be one. It watches how the shape of your work changes across a deploy, in plain English, for one flat price — and it is the wrong answer for anybody who needs to see under the application.
The whole comparison, in one table
Eleven questions, and the two rows we lose are in there with the rest. Sixty measures Node and Postgres and cannot see your infrastructure at all — if either of those is what you came for, the answer is on this page and it is one of the other columns.
| What is being compared | Sixty | Datadog | New Relic | Sentry | Grafana Cloud | Vercel Speed Insights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you set upBefore it can tell you anything at all. | Nothing. One command, no dashboards, no thresholds | Dashboards, monitors, thresholds, SLOs | Dashboards and alert conditions, on top of curated views | Little for errors. Sampling and alert rules for the rest | Collectors, exporters, dashboards, alert rules — all of it | Nothing — a toggle and a component |
| Time to the first findingInstall to a sentence that names a cause. | Your next deploy | Hours to days — the install is quick, the configuration is not | Hours — installing is fast, deciding what is wrong is not | Minutes for a crash. Longer for anything that does not throw | Days, and it is your dashboard that finds it | Minutes, for page timings |
| Compares one release to the lastAutomatically, without being asked a question. | Yes — every finding is one release against the one before | Yes, for latency and error rate, via deployment tracking | Yes, via change tracking and deployment markers | Yes — release health, and regression detection on transactions | Only if you build the comparison yourself | Partly — you can view timings per deployment |
| Rows per call, queries per renderThe shape of what your database work returns, not how long it took. | Yes, this is the core signal | Query timings, yes. Rows returned per call, no | Slow query traces, yes. A baseline for rows returned, no | Detects N+1 spans. Does not measure rows returned | Only what you instrument yourself | No — the database is not in scope |
| Page vitals per routeLargest paint, interaction response, layout shift. | Yes, broken down by country | Yes, as RUM — a separate product with its own price | Yes — browser monitoring, billed as ingest | Yes — Web Vitals per route, plus session replay | Yes — frontend observability, which you configure | Yes, this is the whole product |
| Failures that report successEmpty results, refused requests, buttons wired to nothing. | Yes — this is most of what it finds | Only what you write a monitor for | Only what you write an alert condition for | Partly. A 401 or an empty result is not an event unless you make it one | Only what you instrument and then alert on | No |
| Evidence handed to your coding agentNot a dashboard to read — a payload the thing that writes your code can act on. | Yes, over MCP, with the numbers and stack frames attached | An MCP server you can ask questions of | An MCP server you can ask questions of | Yes — Seer proposes fixes, and there is an MCP server | No | No |
| Data collected about your usersWhat ends up on somebody else’s server because you installed it. | None. No IDs, no cookies, no URLs, no replay | Session IDs, user IDs, and session replay if you enable RUM | Session IDs, and user attributes if you set them | IP address by default, user IDs if you set them, replay if you enable it | Whatever you choose to send | Speed Insights is anonymised; Web Analytics counts visitors |
| Infrastructure, logs, containersHosts, pods, queues — the layer under the application. | No | Yes — this is the reason to buy it | Yes | No | Yes — this is its home ground | Your Vercel functions only |
| Runtimes it measuresServer-side. Browser coverage is separate and mostly universal. | Node and Postgres. Any front end, any backend language | Everything | Everything | Everything | Everything, through OpenTelemetry | Anything you deploy to Vercel |
| Where the bill startsList price for a comparable product, read August 2026. | €14.99 a month, flat | $36 / host / month | Free to 100 GB, then $0.35 / GB | Free, then $26 / month | Free tier, then usage | $10 / project / month |
Competitor prices are list prices for a comparable product, read from each vendor's own pricing page in August 2026. Every one of them is linked on the page for that tool, because a price quoted without a source is a number you are being asked to take on trust from the party selling against it.
One at a time
Each of these says what the tool is genuinely good at before it says anything else, and each one ends with a list of reasons to pick it over this.
Sixty vs Datadog
Everything, for everyone, billed per host. Unbeatable if you run infrastructure; a lot of product to carry if you run one app on Vercel.
$36 per host per month for APM, billed annually, before ingestFull-stack observability platformSixty vs New Relic
The same breadth as Datadog on a friendlier meter, with a genuinely large free tier — and the same afternoon of setup before it says anything.
100 GB a month free, then $0.35 per GB and $99 per full userError tracking, plus performanceSixty vs Sentry
Best-in-class for the crash you can see. The gap is the failure that never throws — and what it stores about the person who hit it.
Free for one developer; Team from $26 a monthOpen-source stack, hostedSixty vs Grafana Cloud
The most flexible and the most work. Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and OpenTelemetry, hosted for you — and still a project rather than a product.
A large free tier, then usage — around $0.50 per GB of traces or logsFront-end analytics, bundledSixty vs Vercel Speed Insights
Real page timings with one checkbox, from the platform you deploy to. It stops at the edge of the browser — nothing under it is measured.
$10 per project per month on Pro, plus usage for ObservabilityWhen Sixty is the wrong answer
There is a real shape of team this does not fit, and it is not a small one. If you recognise yourself here, one of the tools above is the better purchase and this page would rather you made it.
- You run servers, containers or Kubernetes. Sixty measures application work and has nothing to say about a node, a pod or a queue.
- Your services are Python, Ruby, Go, PHP or Java. The browser half works with any backend in any language; the server half is Node and Postgres today, and pretending otherwise would waste your afternoon.
- You need logs. Search over log lines is a different product with a storage bill attached, and it is not planned here.
- You need to know who hit a bug. Nothing about your users is collected, so that question has no answer here and never will.
- You have on-call rotations and need paging, escalation and SLOs. Sixty produces a feed and a payload for your coding agent, not a rota.
What is left, once all of that is true
One or two JavaScript apps with a Postgres behind them, shipped by somebody who did not write most of the code and does not want to become an observability engineer to keep it working. For that reader, every tool on this page has the same shape of problem: it is a very good instrument panel, handed over with the flying left to you.
Sixty is the other trade. It watches one narrow thing — how the shape of your work changed across a deploy — and it already has an opinion about what that means, so there is nothing to configure and no threshold to guess at. When something changes, the evidence goes to the coding agent you already have open and comes back as a diff.
€14.99 a month, flat, and seven days free before any card. The pricing page has the rest of it.