Our take
Pick AppSignal if app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (30K requests, 1 GB logs, 5-day retention) while they open a first disk graph, then buy the paid APM tile at $23.25 / month billed yearly ($279 / year, 250K requests) when they outgrow the free bucket. Pick Dash0 if platform teams who will send a first OTel service map, then stay on the printed $0.060 / million ingest when they want traces + logs in one
Best for
AppSignal Errors, traces, and host gauges you start at $0
Dash0 OTel you pay per signal
Free plan
AppSignal No free plan
Dash0 No free plan
Lowest paid
AppSignal Long-term log storage $89
Dash0 Metric data points $0.020
Next step up
AppSignal Application monitoring (yearly tile) $279
Dash0 Spans $0.060
Coding agent
AppSignal
Dash0 Services / service map
Runs where
AppSignal Hosted
Dash0 Local or hosted
Watch out
AppSignal Free is 30K requests / month and 5-day retention
Dash0 No printed forever Free plan
Last checked
AppSignal 2026-10-23 · appsignal.com
Dash0 2026-10-23 · dash0.com/pricing
app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (30K requests, 1 GB logs, 5-day retention) while they open a first disk graph, then buy the paid APM tile at $23.25 / month billed yearly ($279 / year, 250K requests) when they outgrow the free bucket.
Read the AppSignal pageplatform teams who will send a first OTel service map, then stay on the printed $0.060 / million ingest when they want traces + logs in one SignalStore.
Read the Dash0 page
