Grafana Pyroscope
by Pyroscope · Open source continuous profiling, aggregated and viewed in Grafana
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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 and prices from Grafana Pyroscope’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
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
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Grafana Pyroscope pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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