How Unimoni saves money

Per-host pricing comparison

A typical SaaS: $15-50/host/mo × number of custom metrics × cardinality multiplier. 100 hosts = $3000-10000/mo.

Unimoni self-hosted on a dedicated server ($150/mo AWS m5.xlarge + 500GB SSD): a fixed price for any number of hosts and metrics.

The saved $$$ can go into a proper observability team rather than licenses.

Where Unimoni is usually cheaper

• High-cardinality use cases (per-customer SaaS metrics, per-match gaming)
• A large fleet of edge devices (IoT)
• Compliance environments where data must not leave for a vendor

Where Unimoni does not win

• Small teams (<5 hosts) — a SaaS free tier is better there
• If everything is in one cloud and you need native APM — the native one (CloudWatch) is cheaper for the baseline