Grafana Faro vs Embrace

Grafana Faro8.6Visit Embrace8.4Visit

Higher score Grafana Faro #6 in Real User Monitoring 8.6/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 4 of 5 features Visit Grafana Faro

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Embrace #8 in Real User Monitoring 8.4/10 Free plan · 30-day trial Free planFree trial✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Embrace

• Grafana Faro fits best

  Open-source-minded web RUM teams

• Embrace fits best

  Mobile-first teams wanting affordable RUM

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Side by side

Feature	Grafana Faro 8.6/10 Visit ↗	Embrace 8.4/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.6	8.4
Ranking	#6 in Real User Monitoring	#8 in Real User Monitoring
Best for	Open-source-minded web RUM teams	Mobile-first teams wanting affordable RUM
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	$19/mo	$0.80/unit usage-based
Free plan	✓	✓
Free trial	—	30 days
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Mobile
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS, Android
Support	Email, Community, Docs	Email, Community, Docs
Integrations	6 integrations	4 integrations
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Grafana Faro 4/5 · Embrace 5/5
Core Web Vitals	✓	✓
Mobile app monitoring	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Interaction tracking	✓	✓
Geographic breakdown	✓	✓
Error correlation	✓	✓
Specs
Data retention	30 days	90+ days
Pricing metric	Sessions	Sessions
Our review
Pros	Free plan includes up to 50k sessions per month Tracks Web Vitals, errors, interactions, geography, and sessions Connects frontend telemetry with Grafana and OpenTelemetry tools	Free tier covers errors, crashes, basic performance, dashboards, and alerting Monitors web, iOS, Android, APIs, crashes, ANRs, networks, and traces Low-cost Pro pricing with custom dashboards and API data forwarding
Cons	Web-focused rather than native mobile monitoring Free plan includes community support only Published retention period is 30 days	Free tier is capped at 1 million sessions per year and 5 users Integration options are smaller than those of the highest-ranked products Advanced enterprise workflow and support features require Enterprise
Our verdict	Grafana Faro is an open-source JavaScript SDK for real user monitoring in browser-based applications. It is designed for developers, DevOps teams, and SREs that need frontend performance, error, interaction, session, and trace data. Faro… Read the review →	Embrace is a real user monitoring and observability platform for engineering and reliability teams supporting mobile and web applications. It brings together real-user sessions, user timelines, crashes, exceptions, network activity, Core… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Grafana Faro — where it wins

  • Free plan includes up to 50k sessions per month
  • Tracks Web Vitals, errors, interactions, geography, and sessions
  • Connects frontend telemetry with Grafana and OpenTelemetry tools

  Where it doesn't

  • Web-focused rather than native mobile monitoring
  • Free plan includes community support only
  • Published retention period is 30 days

• Embrace — where it wins

  • Free tier covers errors, crashes, basic performance, dashboards, and alerting
  • Monitors web, iOS, Android, APIs, crashes, ANRs, networks, and traces
  • Low-cost Pro pricing with custom dashboards and API data forwarding

  Where it doesn't

  • Free tier is capped at 1 million sessions per year and 5 users
  • Integration options are smaller than those of the highest-ranked products
  • Advanced enterprise workflow and support features require Enterprise

• Grafana Faro8.6/10 · Free plan

  A flexible web RUM SDK with free usage, Grafana integrations, and self-hosted deployment.

  Visit Grafana FaroFull verdict →
• Embrace8.4/10 · Free plan · 30-day trial

  Affordable, mobile-first RUM with broad coverage across apps, web, crashes, and performance.

  Visit EmbraceFull verdict →