| Price from | $10/mo | $90.83/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 5 |
| Spec score · Log Management Software | 9.1 (#10) | 8.6 (#23) |
| Spec score · Log Monitoring Tools | 9.1 (#6) | 8.8 (#7) |
| Alerts | Query Alerts run BigQuery SELECT statements on schedules of at least five minutes and can notify Slack or webhooks. | Users can define custom alert conditions and send notifications to Slack, Teams and email. |
| Company | Logflare says it is now part of Supabase and directs users to Supabase for support. | Datalust was founded in Australia in 2013 by Nicholas and Susan Blumhardt. |
| Dashboards | BigQuery integration provides Google Data Studio dashboards and direct access to the underlying table for Google-authenticated users. | Seq includes saved queries and dashboards without imposing limits on their number. |
| Deployment options | both | Seq is self-hosted and supported on Windows or under Docker/Linux, and can be deployed on-premises or in a public cloud. |
| Documentation depth | The documentation covers ingestion, LQL, querying, access tokens, endpoints, alerts, backends, integrations, contributing and self-hosting. | The documentation covers ingestion, querying, dashboards, alerting, authentication, storage, backups, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, clustering, APIs and troubleshooting. |
| Security | The service states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest when Google BigQuery is used as the backend. | Official security guidance describes HTTPS transport, salted one-way password and API-key hashes, encrypted feed secrets, role-based permissions and audit logging. |
| Self-hosting | Self-hosting is documented for a single machine using Docker Compose with BigQuery or an experimental PostgreSQL backend. | Seq runs on Windows or Docker/Linux and can be deployed on-premises or in public-cloud infrastructure. |
| What it does | Logflare ingests and queries structured log events in a BigQuery columnar database. | Seq is a self-hosted, real-time server for searching and analyzing structured application logs, traces and metrics. |
