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New Relic vs Snyk comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.7
New Relic enhances performance by quickly pinpointing issues, improving application speed and stability, despite occasional pricing concerns.
Sentiment score
6.4
Snyk improves productivity by rapidly identifying vulnerabilities and reducing critical issues, enhancing security confidence despite initial setup adjustments.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
New Relic's customer service is praised for quick, helpful support, although some experience variable wait times and off-hour delays.
Sentiment score
7.5
Snyk's customer service is praised for responsiveness and helpfulness, though some areas like response time need improvement.
Issues that could be solved quickly sometimes take longer because they go around in circles.
I have reached out to customer support multiple times for various cases, particularly for customization such as creating dashboards, and my experience has been good.
We could understand the implementation of the product and other features without the need for human interaction.
Their response time aligns with their SLA commitments.
Our long-standing association has ensured smooth communication, resulting in favorable support experiences and satisfactory issue resolution.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
New Relic is praised for its scalability, handling various environments efficiently, though some users consider costs a factor.
Sentiment score
7.2
Snyk offers excellent scalability and integration, despite occasional scan speed and UI issues, supporting large-scale deployments efficiently.
Snyk allows for scaling across large organizations, accommodating tens of thousands of applications and over 60,000 repositories.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
New Relic is highly stable, handling workloads well, with minor issues quickly resolved and consistently high user ratings.
Sentiment score
7.8
Snyk is stable and reliable despite some documentation gaps, occasional bugs, and update issues, with generally high user ratings.
 

Room For Improvement

New Relic users seek better pricing, enhanced integrations, improved documentation, and more comprehensive dashboards, alerts, and performance monitoring.
Snyk should enhance integration, expand language support, improve documentation, and refine features for better efficiency and usability.
Using real-time data, if there are any malicious patterns or something happening, they can identify those.
Email alert customization is limited; it cannot be tailored much, which makes the system more rigid than optimal.
New Relic can get pricey for larger organizations.
It lacks the ability to select branches on its Web UI, forcing users to rely on CLI or CI/CD for that functionality.
Both Veracode and Snyk should implement this new scoring system for CVSS and AIVSS.
The inclusion of AI to remove false positives would be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers should consider New Relic's complex and potentially expensive pricing model, especially for smaller companies or large deployments.
Snyk's scalable enterprise pricing is viewed as fair and cost-effective, offering transparency and valuable features like single sign-on.
Snyk is less expensive.
After negotiations, we received a special package with a good price point.
Snyk is recognized as the cheapest option we have evaluated.
 

Valuable Features

New Relic offers easy installation, real-time monitoring, detailed insights, custom dashboards, and efficient integration, enhancing application performance and optimization.
Snyk provides effortless, cost-effective security with seamless integration, accurate database, real-time alerts, and automated vulnerability management across multiple languages.
Using New Relic speeds up troubleshooting and resolution, giving us a clearer picture of where issues are, thus saving time and effort.
Your data is monitored end to end, which could be directly linked with the SLA and SLO.
Another aspect I appreciate is its good alerting mechanism, which can throw alerts and can be configured with PagerDuty or Slack, allowing easy checks on triggers and troubleshooting using New Relic.
Our integration of Snyk into GitHub allows us to automatically scan codebases and identify issues, which has improved efficiency.
Snyk helps detect vulnerabilities before code moves to production, allowing for integration with DevOps and providing a shift-left advantage by identifying and fixing bugs before deployment.
The best feature of Snyk is the integration with our ticketing system, which is Jira.
 

Categories and Ranking

New Relic
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
160
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (9th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (8th), IT Operations Analytics (3rd), Mobile APM (3rd), Cloud Monitoring Software (5th), AIOps (4th)
Snyk
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
18th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (6th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (8th), GRC (5th), Cloud Management (14th), Vulnerability Management (14th), Container Security (6th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (1st), Software Development Analytics (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (15th), DevSecOps (2nd), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of New Relic is 5.1%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Snyk is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
New Relic5.1%
Snyk0.3%
Other94.6%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Rahul -Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Good for application Performance Monitoring but not stable
There are two types of teams we have in every organization. One is for DevOps, and the second one is for performance testing. Those who are using these tools, like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or whatever tool we have on the APM side. These tools are used by two teams: one is the performance team, and another one is the DevOps team. So, the setup and the alert system belong to the DevOps team, not for performance. So, I don't use any alerts in AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or any of the tools.
meetharoon - PeerSpot reviewer
Affordable tool boosts code scanning efficiency but faces integration hurdles
I lead a code security practice for our organization. We integrated Snyk into our GitHub, using CLI to automatically scan codebases and identify issues. We are a large organization with three independent entities, consolidating Snyk across all entities.  We also provide access through numerous…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Retailer
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business65
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise61
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What do you like most about New Relic Insights?
The product's initial setup phase was very easy.
What needs improvement with New Relic Insights?
New Relic can be improved by incorporating an automated incident analysis solution. They have comprehensive enterprise data, and based on that, they could generate and forecast things. They can pre...
How does Snyk compare with SonarQube?
Snyk does a great job identifying and reducing vulnerabilities. This solution is fully automated and monitors 24/7 to find any issues reported on the internet. It will store dependencies that you a...
What do you like most about Snyk?
The most effective feature in securing project dependencies stems from its ability to highlight security vulnerabilities.
What needs improvement with Snyk?
There are a lot of false positives that need to be identified and separated. The inclusion of AI to remove false positives would be beneficial. So far, I've not seen any AI features to enhance vuln...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

New Relic Browser, New Relic Applied Intelligence, New Relic Insights, New Relic Synthetics, New Relic Servers, New Relic APM
Fugue, Snyk AppRisk
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

World Fuel Services, Verizon, FootLocker, McDonald's, Trainline, Mondia Media, Confused, Costa Coffee, Ryanair, Marks & Spencer, William Hill, Delivery Hero, Skyscanner, BASF, DAZN, Veygo, Virtuo, movingimage, talabat, Australia Post, Tokopedia, Seven Network, Virgin Australia, Zomato, BigBasket, Mercado Libre, Lending Club
StartApp, Segment, Skyscanner, DigitalOcean, Comic Relief
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