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# A New Relic alternative for your whole Laravel app.

Laritor tracks exceptions, detects issues, and monitors Laravel performance. Inspect requests, jobs, queries, API calls, logs, and user sessions in one place. Choose what to record, give your team full access, and debug with in-app AI or your coding agent through MCP.

[Try Laritor for free](https://laritor.com/signup) [Compare the tools](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#feature-comparison)

Published by Laritor · Comparison checked October 9, 2026 · [View comparison notes](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#sources)

[At a glance](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#tldr)[Feature comparison](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#feature-comparison)[Why Laritor](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#why-laritor)[Cost calculator](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#cost-calculator)[Try Laritor](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#switching)[FAQs](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#faq)

## Laravel native

Designed primarily for Laravel. All tools compared here support Laravel.

### Laritor

Yes

### New Relic

No

Why choose Laritor over New Relic?

## Laravel monitoring. Built around your app and team.

New Relic is a broad observability platform with real Laravel support. Laritor focuses on the work Laravel developers do each day: inspect a failed job, find a slow query, follow a user’s requests, or understand a feature rollout. Install a Composer client and bring your whole team into that workflow.

Choose Laritor for

### More visibility. More control.

-   Unlimited custom dashboards with 85+ widgets.
-   Exception tracker issue tracker, or full observability recording.
-   Feature flag insights and custom health checks.
-   Session journeys across recorded Laravel requests.
-   Server CPU, memory, and disk metrics with optional collection.
-   Queue wait time investigation and a dedicated Issues workspace.
-   Custom event views and daily or weekly PDF reports.
-   Your choice of provider for in-app AI, plus exception context through MCP.

[See what makes Laritor different](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#key-differences)

When to consider New Relic

### Specific team requirements.

-   You monitor multiple languages, services, and infrastructure products.
-   You need distributed tracing across service boundaries.
-   You want frontend browser monitoring and visual session replay.
-   You need Kubernetes, external synthetic tests, or OpenTelemetry ingestion.
-   Your team requires enterprise security, compliance eligibility, or broad operational tooling.

[Read the full comparison](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#feature-comparison)

The full feature comparison

## Laritor vs New Relic. See what you get.

Compare 40 capabilities. See where Laritor gives you more, where New Relic has an advantage, and what both tools offer.

“Not listed” means an equivalent dedicated feature was not found in the public documentation reviewed. Custom instrumentation may meet that need. New Relic already supports Laravel requests, Queue and Horizon, PHP logs, SQL and external HTTP timing, custom events, dashboards, host metrics, AI, and MCP. Laravel-specific collection and views are compared separately from general-purpose telemetry capabilities.

### Where Laritor shines

Composer installation, Laravel payloads, Pennant insights, backend session journeys, recording presets, unlimited users, and scheduled PDF delivery.

| Capability | Laritor | New Relic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Composer installation without a native PHP agent | Install inside Laravel Install the Laravel Composer client and configure ingestion. No separate ingestion daemon or native PHP extension. | The standard PHP agent uses a native extension and a local daemon. Installation includes PHP configuration and process restart; OpenTelemetry is another instrumentation route. |
| Ready-to-use problem recording modes | Record what you care about Exception tracker issue tracker, or full observability, retaining related configured events within matching executions. | Agent settings, ignored transactions, attribute controls, and trace sampling. Equivalent Laravel exception/issue recording presets are not listed. |
| Automatic Laravel Pennant insights | Understand feature rollouts Track flag evaluations, activation rates, durations, and related errors. | Custom attributes and events can describe flag states. Automatic Pennant collection and a dedicated Laravel flag resource are not listed. |
| Laravel backend session journeys | Follow the backend journey Follow retained requests from the same Laravel session, with users and custom events. | Browser session traces and replay with frontend instrumentation. An equivalent automatic Laravel server-session resource is not listed. |
| Optional incoming request and response bodies | Inspect request data Inspect configured request/response headers and bodies within retained executions. | Request parameters, selected headers, response status, and response metadata. Automatic full PHP request/response body capture is not listed. |
| Optional outbound payloads and responses | Understand failing API calls Outgoing headers, payloads, response content, status, and timing with collection controls. | External HTTP spans and trace propagation. Automatic PHP outbound request/response body collection is not listed in the reviewed tracing guide. |
| Dedicated Laravel job payload inspection | Inspect the failing job Job payload and execution details beside related recorded queries, logs, and API calls. | Automatic Laravel Queue and Horizon background transactions. An equivalent Laravel job payload investigation resource is not listed. |
| Artisan command output capture | Read what the command printed Recorded command output, errors, and related execution events. | PHP background transaction instrumentation is supported. Automatic Artisan stdout capture is not listed. |
| Dedicated Laravel scheduler resource | Monitor scheduled work Inspect scheduled executions, failures, delays, and recorded activity. | Background transaction instrumentation and synthetic checks. A dedicated Laravel scheduler execution resource is not listed. |
| Laravel mail and notification resources | Inspect delivery activity Inspect recorded mail and notification activity within retained executions. | Queued work, logs, and custom telemetry can describe delivery. Dedicated automatic Laravel mail and notification resources are not listed. |
| Database schema explorer inside the app | Schema-aware debugging Browse tables, columns, indexes, and relationships beside recorded queries. | SQL traces, database monitoring, and performance analysis. A Laravel application schema explorer with equivalent relationship browsing is not listed. |
| Unlimited monitoring users at the starting price | Bring your whole team Unlimited apps and users at $20/month. | Basic users are free. Paid full-platform access has per-user charges; Standard allows up to five full-platform users. |
| Custom health checks written in Laravel | Check from inside your app Run built-in or custom PHP dependency checks with result history and failure alerts. | Synthetic browser/API checks and infrastructure monitoring. An equivalent built-in Laravel PHP dependency-check resource is not listed. |
| Choose your in-app AI provider | Use your preferred provider Included in-app recommendations or your preferred provider and model. | New Relic AI analyzes telemetry and operational context. An equivalent bring-your-own-provider setting for the in-app assistant is not listed. |
| Built-in daily and weekly PDF delivery | Share application snapshots Choose application metrics and receive scheduled PDF snapshots by email. | Dashboard PDF export and API snapshots, plus scheduled NRQL email results in CSV/JSON. Equivalent built-in scheduled PDF delivery is not listed. |
| Dedicated Laravel bot traffic views | Understand automated traffic Bot and suspicious request analytics, detection settings, and recording filters. | Request attributes, browser telemetry, and custom queries can analyze traffic. Equivalent dedicated Laravel bot/suspicious request views are not listed. |

### Where New Relic shines

Multi-language monitoring, cross-service tracing, browser replay, Kubernetes, synthetics, OpenTelemetry, enterprise options, and wider MCP context.

| Capability | Laritor | New Relic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monitoring beyond Laravel and PHP | Designed for Laravel applications. | APM and integrations across Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, and more. |
| Distributed traces across services | Recorded Laravel execution timelines and outbound call context. | Cross-service tracing with trace propagation, head-based sampling, and optional tail-based Infinite Tracing. |
| Browser monitoring and visual session replay | Backend Laravel requests, users, sessions, and custom events. | Frontend browser performance, JavaScript errors, session traces, and visual session replay with browser instrumentation. |
| Kubernetes and wider infrastructure | Laravel host CPU, memory, and disk monitoring through optional collection. | Cluster, container, workload, host, and wider infrastructure monitoring through dedicated integrations. |
| External synthetic browser and API checks | Custom dependency health checks run inside Laravel. | Availability, scripted browser, API, certificate, and other synthetic checks from monitoring locations. |
| OpenTelemetry ecosystem | Laravel-specific client and recorded event resources. | Ingest vendor-neutral traces, metrics, and logs through OTLP and OpenTelemetry collectors. |
| General-purpose telemetry querying | Laravel resource filters, execution investigation, and 85+ dashboard widgets. | NRQL for ad hoc telemetry analysis, custom charts, alerts, and scheduled query reports. |
| Software vulnerability investigation | Application exceptions, issues, and performance investigation. | Security RX includes vulnerability findings from supported PHP agents for Composer packages and third-party security integrations. |
| Regulated enterprise options | Managed Laravel monitoring with application collection controls. | Enterprise and Data Plus options include HIPAA and FedRAMP eligibility under applicable terms, plus enterprise support options. |
| Broader operational context through MCP | Hosted read-only exception details and recorded execution context. | Ground Truth exposes broader telemetry, entity relationships, operational context, and permission-controlled tools for investigation and actions. |
| Recurring free allowance | 300K free trial events; paid monitoring starts at $20/month. | A recurring Free edition with 100 GB ingest and one full-platform user, plus unlimited basic users. Excluded from this page’s paid calculator. |

### Where there’s a tie

Both offer Laravel performance and exception monitoring, logs, SQL, custom events, custom dashboards, host metrics, alerts, AI, and MCP.

| Capability | Laritor | New Relic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PHP and Laravel exception tracking | Grouped exceptions, full stack traces, file/line, and recorded occurrence context. | Automatic error and exception reporting for supported frameworks, error traces, grouping, and manual handled-exception reporting. |
| Request performance monitoring | Request durations, percentiles, status codes, failures, and related recorded activity. | Automatic Laravel web transactions with application performance metrics and transaction investigation. |
| Laravel Queue and Horizon monitoring | Job failures, dispatch delay, wait time, execution timing, and throughput views. | Automatic Laravel Queue background transactions and Horizon support in compatible PHP agent versions. |
| SQL performance investigation | Query timing, SQL, bindings, and related retained execution events. | SQL tracing, slow-query backtraces, and configurable SQL collection. Performance Risks Inbox detects supported performance anti-patterns, including N+1 queries. |
| External HTTP call timing | Recorded outbound calls linked to the request or job that made them. | Automatic supported HTTP client instrumentation and distributed trace spans. |
| Redis and cache instrumentation | Recorded cache and Redis activity with related execution context. | Supported Redis, Predis, and Memcached instrumentation. Dedicated Laravel cache resources and general datastore spans are different views. |
| Application logs in context | Search recorded logs and inspect them inside retained executions. | PHP agent forwarding or decoration for Monolog 2/3 links logs to monitored application data. |
| Custom business events | Named custom events with metadata, timing, dedicated resources, and dashboards. | PHP custom events and attributes that can be queried and visualized through NRQL and dashboards. |
| Customizable dashboards | Unlimited dashboards using 85+ Laravel widgets. | Configurable dashboards with custom charts, query builder, NRQL, layout controls, and PDF export. |
| Host CPU, memory, and disk | Optional scheduled host collection and dedicated server charts. | Infrastructure host, process, memory, CPU, storage, and container resource views. |
| Alerts and integrations | Exception and issue alerts through your configured delivery integrations. | Alert policies and workflows with Slack, email, webhooks, and other destinations. |
| Sensitive data and collection controls | Client-side collection settings, redaction, recording filters, and sampling. | Attribute include/exclude rules, SQL obfuscation, high-security settings, log controls, and trace sampling. |
| In-app AI and hosted MCP | In-app recommendations and a read-only MCP server for exception investigation. | New Relic AI and Ground Truth MCP for telemetry investigation. Feature access and billable compute depend on your account settings. |

Major difference

### Spend less time setting up monitoring. Get straight to your Laravel app.

Laritor brings monitoring into Laravel through a Composer client, with the application views your developers need already in place. There is no native PHP monitoring extension or proxy daemon to install for Laritor.

-   #### Simpler PHP deployment

    Install and configure Laritor inside your application. New Relic’s standard PHP setup requires a native PHP extension and local proxy daemon, adding runtime components to install, update, and maintain.

-   #### Laravel resources ready to use

    Inspect queries, queue wait, commands, schedules, sessions, Pennant evaluations, and custom events through dedicated Laritor views. New Relic’s broader platform requires adapting its general telemetry workflows to these questions.

-   #### Record the problems you care about

    Laritor offers exceptions-only, issues-only, and all-activity modes with related recorded context. Your team can choose its Laravel monitoring scope without assembling a wider observability deployment.


Why choose Laritor over New Relic?

## See more of your Laravel app. Fix problems with better context.

Inspect the data behind a problem, follow backend session journeys, review feature flags, and give every teammate access to the same Laravel monitoring workspace.

One Laravel workspace for your team

### All Laritor features. $20/month.

20M billable events, unlimited apps and users, and 30-day retention. Choose exceptions, detected issues, or all activity without a separate error or log quota.

[Compare your usage](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#cost-calculator)

Laritor includes unlimited monitoring users. New Relic’s Data + User model separates data ingest from user access. Compare your shared workload, estimated data size, and full-platform team size below. Small single-user scenarios can cost less on New Relic.

Cost calculator

### Compare your workload and team costs.

Use one recorded workload for both tools. Laritor bills for events. This New Relic estimate covers Original data ingest and paid full-platform users.

Laritor / month**$20.00**USD · Unlimited apps and users · 30-day retention

20,000,000 billable events

New Relic base estimate / month**$208.00**Standard · USD · Monthly pay-as-you-go

40 GB estimated ingest · 3 full-platform users

Data above the included 100 GB

$0.00

Full-platform user access

$208.00

Paid editions only. The included 100 GB still applies. Additional New Relic compute, retention, synthetic checks, regional charges, and other telemetry can add costs. Laritor’s price includes all standard features and unlimited users.

Monthly USD prices before tax. New Relic Original data costs $0.40/GB above the included 100 GB. Standard costs $10 for the first full-platform user and $99 for each additional user, up to five. Above five, this estimate uses Pro at $418.80 per user on monthly pay-as-you-go. It selects by user count only; other edition requirements may change the price. Ingest = shared event estimate × your KB assumption ÷ 1,000,000. KB means 1,000 bytes; GB means 1 billion bytes. The 2 KB starting value is an editable scenario assumption, not a measured conversion. Instrumentation, sampling, aggregated metrics, metadata, and other telemetry change actual ingest. Laritor adds $0.20 per started 100K events above 20M and shows “Ask for a quote” above $500. New Relic’s Free edition, Core users, Data Plus, compute-based contracts, Advanced Compute including billable AI usage, extra retention, EU charges, synthetic overage, annual discounts, custom contracts, and trials are excluded.

[A Laravel workflow from installation onward](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#infrastructure-differences)[More Laravel data when debugging](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#debugging-differences)[Views built around Laravel](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#observability-differences)[Give your team regular updates](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#reporting-differences)

### A Laravel workflow from installation onward

Use the framework you already know to control what your monitoring records.

Laravel installation

#### Install with Composer and start from your app.

Install the Laritor client, configure your ingest endpoint and key, and run the sync command. There is no separate native PHP agent or ingestion daemon to manage.

New Relic’s standard PHP installation includes a native extension and local daemon, with PHP configuration and process restarts. It also supports alternative OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Choose the setup that fits your deployment environment.

[Install the Laritor client](https://laritor.com/docs/installation) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/installation/php-agent-installation-overview/)

Recording modes

#### Track what matters to your Laravel app.

Start with exceptions-only to keep related recorded events when an exception occurs. Use issues-only for detected problems, or full observability for all configured activity.

New Relic has agent configuration, transaction filters, attribute controls, and head/tail trace sampling. Laritor packages the Laravel exception and issue recording choices into ready-to-use filters.

[Choose what Laritor records](https://laritor.com/docs/customization) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/configuration/php-agent-configuration/)

In-app dependency checks

#### Test a dependency from inside Laravel.

Write a PHP check for a database, service, or another dependency your app needs. Review results and failures alongside your Laravel monitoring.

New Relic’s synthetic checks test availability, APIs, and browser workflows from monitoring locations. Those are valuable external checks; Laritor’s custom PHP checks run with your application context.

[Explore in-app health checks](https://laritor.com/health-checks) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/synthetics/synthetic-monitoring/using-monitors/intro-synthetic-monitoring/)

### More Laravel data when debugging

Inspect the payload, printed output, and execution events behind a problem.

API call investigation

#### Find why your API calls are failing.

Optionally record outgoing headers, payloads, response content, status codes, and timing. See what your app sent and what came back alongside related logs, queries, and exceptions.

New Relic already records supported external HTTP calls and trace propagation. Automatic PHP request/response body collection is not listed in its reviewed tracing guide. Laritor makes optional body investigation part of its outbound request resource.

[Explore outbound requests](https://laritor.com/outbound-requests) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/configuration/distributed-tracing-php-agent/)

Job investigation

#### Inspect the data behind a failing job.

Open a retained job to inspect its payload, exception, timing, and related recorded events. Follow the queries and API calls that help explain the failure.

New Relic automatically instruments Laravel Queue and Horizon transactions. Laritor adds a dedicated Laravel job payload investigation workflow alongside those execution details.

[Explore job monitoring](https://laritor.com/jobs) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/frameworks-libraries/laravel/)

Command output

#### Read the output behind a failed command.

Capture the output of an Artisan import, export, or another command. Inspect what it printed with its errors and related recorded activity.

New Relic supports PHP background transaction instrumentation. Automatic Artisan stdout capture and a dedicated Laravel command output resource are not listed in its reviewed instrumentation guide.

[Explore command monitoring](https://laritor.com/commands) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/features/php-custom-instrumentation/)

Debug with your AI agent

### Give your agent the context behind an exception.

Laritor MCP lets your agent retrieve exception details and the recorded execution timeline. It can inspect those events alongside your code to investigate the cause and work on a fix. In-app AI recommendations are available too.

Both tools offer in-app AI and MCP. Laritor provides focused read-only exception context and lets you choose your in-app provider. New Relic Ground Truth offers broader operational context; some New Relic AI usage consumes billable Advanced Compute. [Choose your in-app AI provider ↗](https://laritor.com/docs/integrations/ai-provider)

[Read the Laritor MCP guide](https://laritor.com/docs/integrations/mcp-server)

Laritor MCP exception triage[View screenshot](https://laritor.com/screenshots/mcp-triage.png)

[![AI agent using Laritor MCP timeline events to identify an exception caused by an unexpected API response.](https://laritor.com/screenshots/mcp-triage.png)](https://laritor.com/screenshots/mcp-triage.png)

### Views built around Laravel

Understand users, rollouts, and application behavior through familiar Laravel resources.

Laravel sessions

#### Follow the requests behind a customer’s problem.

Inspect retained requests from the same Laravel session. Add custom events for checkout, subscriptions, or other business steps to understand the user’s backend journey.

New Relic offers browser session traces and visual replay. Laritor’s backend session resource answers a different question: which Laravel requests and recorded events belonged to this visit? It does not replace visual browser replay.

[Explore backend session journeys](https://laritor.com/sessions) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/browser/browser-monitoring/browser-pro-features/session-replay/get-started/)

Feature flag insights

#### Understand how feature flags affect your application.

Automatically record Laravel Pennant evaluations and inspect activation rates, durations, and related errors. Investigate a rollout through a dedicated feature flag view.

New Relic supports custom events and attributes for adding application context. Equivalent automatic Pennant collection and a dedicated Laravel flag resource are not listed in its reviewed PHP integration.

[Explore feature flag insights](https://laritor.com/feature-flags) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/getting-started/php-agent-compatibility-requirements/)

Laravel dashboard widgets

#### Build dashboards tailored to your team.

Choose from 85+ Laravel widgets and arrange unlimited dashboards for requests, exceptions, queues, users, and server resources. Start with the application metrics your team follows.

New Relic also has customizable dashboards, query builders, and PDF export. Laritor’s advantage is its included Laravel widget catalog and unlimited monitoring users, rather than dashboard customization being exclusive to Laritor.

[Explore Laravel widgets](https://laritor.com/docs/dashboards) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/query-your-data/explore-query-data/dashboards/manage-your-dashboard/)

Database schema explorer

#### Inspect the schema behind a query problem.

Browse tables, columns, indexes, and relationships beside recorded queries. Use the schema and AI guidance to understand the database operation you are investigating.

New Relic offers SQL tracing and broader database performance monitoring. A comparable Laravel application schema explorer with relationship browsing is not listed in the reviewed PHP configuration guide.

[Explore query investigation](https://laritor.com/queries) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/configuration/php-agent-configuration/)

Bot traffic

#### Understand automated traffic in your Laravel app.

Review dedicated bot and suspicious request views by route, status, and timing. Open retained requests and adjust detection and recording filters for your application.

New Relic’s request and browser attributes can support custom traffic analysis. Laritor provides dedicated Laravel views as a starting point for investigating that traffic.

[Explore request monitoring](https://laritor.com/requests) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/attributes/php-agent-attributes/)

Performance in context

### See slow requests, errors, and bot traffic together.

Review request volume, status codes, duration percentiles, and where time is spent. Open a retained request to inspect its queries, logs, API calls, and other recorded events. [Explore request monitoring](https://laritor.com/requests)

Laritor application performance[View full-size screenshot](https://laritor.com/screenshots/application-performance.png)

[![Laritor application performance with HTTP response breakdown, bot requests, duration percentiles, lifecycle averages, and query metrics.](https://laritor.com/screenshots/application-performance.png)](https://laritor.com/screenshots/application-performance.png)

Metrics reflect the selected time range and the activity your recording configuration retained.

### Give your team regular updates

Share the performance snapshot your teammates need.

Scheduled PDF reports

#### Receive application snapshots each day or week.

Choose performance metrics and a daily or weekly delivery schedule. Receive a PDF snapshot by email and share it with teammates without requiring another login.

New Relic supports dashboard PDF export and programmatic snapshots. Its scheduled NRQL reporting is generally available and emails CSV/JSON query results. Laritor provides built-in scheduled PDF delivery for application performance snapshots.

[Explore scheduled PDF reports](https://laritor.com/docs/reports) [New Relic source](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/nrql/using-nrql/schedule-nrql-searches/)

Evaluate Laritor in your app

## Try it before you switch.

Use a representative app or environment to compare the details you receive, recording volume, and debugging workflow.

1.  ### Install and configure the client

    Create a Laritor account, install the Composer package, add your ingest endpoint and key, and run the sync command.

    ```
    composer require binarybuilds/laritor-client
    ```

    [Complete installation steps](https://laritor.com/docs/installation)

2.  ### Choose what to record

    Start with exception tracker, issue tracker, or full observability. Register the generated filter, then review the data and privacy settings for your app.

    [Configure recording filters](https://laritor.com/docs/customization#filtering)

3.  ### Compare a real investigation

    Inspect a known exception or slow execution, test alert delivery, and compare measured overhead and billable event usage. If you run both tools, include their combined collection work in your evaluation.

    [Explore exception investigation](https://laritor.com/exceptions)

4.  ### Set up your team’s workflow

    Create your dashboards, choose alert channels, schedule reports, and connect AI. Keep access to your existing New Relic history while Laritor builds a new record of your application’s activity. There is no documented automatic history import.

    [Explore Laritor guides](https://laritor.com/docs)


Questions before switching

## New Relic alternative FAQs.

### What is Laritor, and why use it as a New Relic alternative for Laravel?

Laritor tracks exceptions, detects issues, and monitors Laravel performance. It brings requests, jobs, queries, API calls, logs, user sessions, feature flags, and server resources into Laravel-specific investigation views. Choose it for related execution context, 85+ dashboard widgets, unlimited users, scheduled PDF reports, in-app AI, and MCP without managing a native PHP agent.

[Explore Laritor](https://laritor.com/) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#what-is-laritor)

### Does New Relic support Laravel even though it is not Laravel native?

Yes. Its PHP agent automatically instruments Laravel web requests and Queue workers, with Horizon support in compatible agent versions. In this comparison, Laravel native means designed primarily for Laravel. New Relic supports many frameworks, languages, and infrastructure products; Laritor focuses on Laravel.

[Read New Relic’s Laravel guide](https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/apm/agents/php-agent/frameworks-libraries/laravel/) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#laravel-native)

### When should I choose Laritor or keep New Relic?

Choose Laritor for Laravel-focused debugging, optional payload/body collection, session journeys, Pennant insights, easy recording presets, and full monitoring access for your team. Keep New Relic when you need broader multi-language observability, cross-service tracing, browser replay, Kubernetes, synthetic testing, OpenTelemetry, or enterprise options. Some teams may use both for different parts of their system.

[Compare the capabilities](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#feature-comparison) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#different-use-cases)

### Does Laritor need the New Relic PHP extension or a separate ingestion agent?

No. Laritor uses its Laravel Composer client and sends recorded events to its ingest service. The standard New Relic PHP agent uses a native extension and a local daemon, with PHP configuration and process restarts during setup. New Relic also accepts OpenTelemetry data through another instrumentation route.

[Install Laritor](https://laritor.com/docs/installation) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#agent-installation)

### How does Laritor pricing compare with New Relic pricing?

Laritor starts at $20/month with 20M billable events, unlimited apps and users, and 30-day retention. New Relic offers several billing models. This calculator models its Data + User monthly pay-as-you-go option: Original data at $0.40/GB above the included 100 GB, plus paid full-platform user access. Advanced Compute and other extras are excluded, so the New Relic result is a base estimate rather than a complete invoice.

[Compare your workload and users](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#cost-calculator) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#pricing-model)

### How does the calculator convert the shared workload to New Relic gigabytes?

It multiplies retained runs by average Laritor billable events per run, then applies your editable average KB assumption to estimate New Relic ingest. This is a workload proxy, not a claim that one Laritor billing unit equals one New Relic record. Calibrate the KB value against measured ingest, including metadata, sampling, metrics, and other telemetry. KB means 1,000 bytes and GB means 1 billion bytes.

[Adjust the ingest assumption](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#cost-calculator) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#event-to-gb)

### Does the calculator start New Relic on its free plan?

No. It starts with paid Standard access: $10 for the first full-platform user and $99 for each additional user, up to five. Above five, it uses Pro monthly pay-as-you-go at $418.80 per full-platform user. The included 100 GB still applies on this paid model. Basic users are free, Core users have different permissions and pricing, and other edition requirements may require a different plan.

[Review New Relic’s current user pricing](https://newrelic.com/pricing) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#paid-users)

### Is Laritor always cheaper than New Relic?

No. At low ingest with one paid Standard full-platform user, this New Relic base estimate can be $10/month, below Laritor’s $20 starting price. Laritor includes unlimited monitoring users and Laravel-specific features at that starting price. Compare your real team size, recorded data, required capabilities, retention, and New Relic add-ons rather than assuming a universal savings percentage.

[Compare your own scenario](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#cost-calculator) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#single-user-cost)

### When does Laritor show “Ask for a quote” in the calculator?

The calculator shows “Ask for a quote” when Laritor’s estimated monthly price is above $500. Exactly $500 stays numeric. New Relic’s modeled base amount remains visible, but actual contracts, compute consumption, regional options, and other telemetry may change its invoice.

[Estimate your monitoring costs](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#cost-calculator) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#pricing-limits)

### Can I record only exceptions or detected issues with Laritor?

Yes. Exceptions-only retains configured events for an execution when an exception happens. Issues-only retains configured activity when a problem such as a failed job or slow request is detected. Full observability retains all configured activity. New Relic also supports transaction controls and head/tail trace sampling; Laritor’s difference is its ready-to-use Laravel problem recording presets.

[Choose what Laritor records](https://laritor.com/docs/customization) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#recording-modes)

### Do Laritor and New Relic both offer in-app AI and MCP?

Yes. Laritor offers configurable in-app AI providers and read-only exception context through MCP. New Relic AI and Ground Truth MCP provide broader telemetry and operational context, with permission-controlled tools. Some New Relic AI capabilities consume billable Advanced Compute, which this calculator excludes. MCP and AI are shared capabilities, not Laritor-only features.

[Connect Laritor MCP](https://laritor.com/docs/integrations/mcp-server) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#ai-and-mcp)

### Does New Relic already have custom dashboards and scheduled reports?

Yes. New Relic supports custom dashboards, PDF export, programmatic snapshots, and scheduled NRQL email results in CSV/JSON. Scheduled Search and Reporting became generally available on October 5, 2026. Laritor includes 85+ Laravel widgets and built-in customizable daily or weekly PDF snapshots by email. The distinction is the included Laravel workflow and report format, not the absence of New Relic dashboards or reporting.

[Explore Laritor PDF reports](https://laritor.com/docs/reports) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#dashboards-and-reports)

### Can I protect sensitive data and PII in both tools?

Yes. Laritor provides client-side collection settings and redaction before ingestion. New Relic supports attribute include/exclude rules, SQL obfuscation, high-security settings, log controls, and sampling. Review each type of body, header, job payload, user attribute, custom event, and AI context you choose to record; one masking rule does not necessarily apply to every collection path.

[Configure Laritor privacy controls](https://laritor.com/docs/customization) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#protect-sensitive-data)

### Are Laritor session journeys the same as New Relic session replay?

No. Laritor links retained backend Laravel requests from the same session and can include users and custom business events. New Relic browser session replay shows frontend interactions and browser telemetry through its browser instrumentation. Use Laritor for the backend execution journey; use browser replay when you need to see the visual interactions.

[Explore Laravel session journeys](https://laritor.com/sessions) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#session-journeys)

### Can I run New Relic and Laritor in parallel?

Yes, you can install Laritor alongside New Relic and evaluate them in a representative environment. Compare request and job context, alerts, actual usage, and combined instrumentation overhead. New Relic’s PHP compatibility documentation says additional monitoring software is not guaranteed or covered by its technical support, so validate your specific configuration before relying on it.

[Evaluate Laritor in your app](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#switching) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#run-in-parallel)

### Will existing New Relic history transfer to Laritor?

Laritor records new activity after installation and configuration. There is no documented automatic import of New Relic telemetry history. Keep access to the existing data you need while Laritor builds a new monitoring record. New Relic retention varies by data type and account settings; compare the history each investigation needs.

[Install the Laritor client](https://laritor.com/docs/installation) [#](https://laritor.com/newrelic-alternative#switching-history)

About this comparison

## Sources and comparison notes.

Published by Laritor, independently of New Relic. Official pricing, PHP and Laravel integration guides, recording settings, logging, dashboard and reporting documentation, infrastructure, browser replay, OpenTelemetry, and AI/MCP documentation were reviewed on October 9, 2026. The comparison includes Ground Truth’s September 2026 launch, Scheduled Search and Reporting GA on October 5, and Performance Risks Inbox GA on October 8. Feature availability depends on agent version, instrumentation, permissions, and account settings.

“Laravel native” means primarily designed for Laravel. New Relic supports Laravel and a much wider stack. “Not listed” describes the reviewed documentation; it does not rule out custom telemetry, queries, or an integration. New Relic’s configurable dashboards, PDF exports, scheduled CSV/JSON reports, Monolog logs, custom events, host metrics, AI, and MCP are acknowledged. Browser replay is distinguished from Laravel backend session journeys, and external synthetic testing from in-app PHP dependency checks.

The calculator estimates one shared retained workload. Laritor counts billable events, including 2 KB increments. New Relic ingest is approximated using an editable average data-size assumption, not a fixed conversion between vendors. It models Original data and paid full-platform users on monthly Data + User pricing, with the included 100 GB allowance. It selects Standard or Pro by user count only. Different edition requirements, other telemetry, Core users, Data Plus, compute-based contracts, Advanced Compute, extended retention, regional charges, synthetic overage, taxes, and negotiated or annual terms can change the price. It is a base estimate, not a complete New Relic invoice. No universal savings claim is made.

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