Splunk vs Uptrace
Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?
The short answer
Splunk is the stronger AI pick in Observability: it has a visibility score of 22.5 versus 0.7 for Uptrace, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.
Choose Splunk if…
- You want the brand AI engines rank higher (22.5 vs 0.7)
- You prefer a larger, established vendor (5,000+ employees)
- Strong log analytics and security data capabilities at enterprise scale
- Real-time infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring
Choose Uptrace if…
No clear advantage in the published data.
AI visibility side by side
Latest weekly run · Nov 3
| Metric | Splunk | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|
| Visibility score | 22.5% | 0.7% |
| Change vs last week | New | New |
| Rank in Observability | #6 | #32 |
| Share of voice | 5.8% | 0.4% |
| Mentions this run | 35 | 2 |
| Positive in AI answers | 21% | — |
The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.
Visibility score trend
Weekly runs over the last 60 days
Splunk 0pp · Uptrace 0pp over 0 weekly runs.
Engine by engine
Splunk leads on 3 of 3 engines
Head to head in AI answers
1 engine answers name both brands
| Prompt | Engine | Splunk | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|---|
| How do I choose an observability platform for a mid-market team? | Perplexity | #12 | #13 |
Features, pricing & fit
| Dimension | Splunk | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based |
| Entry price | Free; paid from $15 / mo | Contact sales |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Splunk Cloud Platform as SaaS, or Splunk Enterprise in a private cloud or on-premises, including air-gapped environments | Uptrace Cloud, or self-hosted with Docker, Ansible or Kubernetes, or on-premises with a license |
| Integrations | 2000+ | — |
| Support | Standard support included with product purchases, Premium support available, Support Portal for capacity changes | 16/5 enterprise support across EU and US business hours, Email and scheduled calls, Dedicated support engineer on on-premises plans |
| Founded | 2003 | — |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, US | Chisinau, Moldova |
| Employees | 5,000+ | 1–10 |
| Funding | IPO | Bootstrapped |
| Best for | SecOps, ITOps and engineering teams that run large volumes of machine data and need security and observability in one platform | Engineering teams that run OpenTelemetry and want traces, metrics and logs in one platform at predictable cost. |
Plans side by side
Splunk
Uptrace
Pros and cons
Themes from the AI answers that mention each brand
Splunk
- Strong log analytics and security data capabilities at enterprise scale
- Real-time infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring
- Free edition and trial available
- Incident alerting integration that routes and auto-resolves incidents
- Good fit for existing Splunk customers
- Complex, opaque, hard-to-predict pricing with surprise overage fees
Uptrace
Profile in progress.
Data collected ·ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode·coverage 100%·next run
Cite as: SlateIndex, “Splunk vs Uptrace”, https://slateindex.ai/compare/splunk-vs-uptrace, data of Nov 3, 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.