Axiom
San Francisco, California, United States
What it is
Axiom is a cloud machine-data platform for ingesting, storing, querying, and monitoring logs, traces, metrics, and events. It brings these observability data together and supports movement from metrics to related traces and logs. Queries use APL, a piped language, while MPL is available for metrics. Axiom accepts OTLP, JSON, CSV, and Elasticsearch Bulk API data, with schemas discovered as data arrives. Log pipelines, live tailing, structured parsing, and archive export are supported. The platform describes a fully managed event store with schema-less ingestion at petabyte scale and over 95% compression. For AI engineering, it records prompts and responses, model and route details, token use, cost, and safety signals, and supports evaluations and experiments. Integrations include OpenTelemetry, Vector, Fluent Bit, AWS services, Vercel, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, and SDKs for several languages. The Personal plan is free permanently, with 30-day retention; Axiom Cloud is $25 a month plus usage.
For and against
For
- Combines logs, traces, metrics, and events.
- Supports live log tailing and log pipelines.
- Accepts OTLP, JSON, CSV, and Elasticsearch Bulk API.
- Free Personal plan includes 30-day retention.
- Archive export is available.
Against
- Personal plan retention is limited to 30 days.
- Personal plan includes 25 GB storage.
- Axiom Cloud has a $25 monthly platform fee plus usage.
The verdict
Axiom combines observability data and offers query, parsing, and pipeline tools in a cloud service. The free Personal plan has stated compute, storage, and retention allowances; Axiom Cloud adds configurable retention and email support.
Who it suits
Axiom’s Personal plan is intended for individual developers and small projects. Axiom Cloud is aimed at teams scaling from an initial deployment to hyperscale.
Plans and prices
Free
500 GB ingestion per month · 30 days retention
Read 24 Sep 2026 · axiom.co
Usage-based
Usage-based ingestion pricing · Hosted observability and log analytics
Read 24 Sep 2026 · axiom.co
Personal
500 GB/mo data loading compute · 10 GB-hours query compute · 25 GB storage · 30-day retention
Read 9 Oct 2026 · axiom.co
Axiom Cloud
Always Free allowance: 1 TB data loading compute / 100 GB-hours query compute / 100 GB storage · Configurable retention · All integrations · Email support
Read 9 Oct 2026 · axiom.co
On the record
- Access controls
- The security page lists SAML and OIDC single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, and role-based access controls scoped to datasets and actions.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- AI engineering
- Axiom records AI prompt and response data, model, route, token use, cost, and safety signals, and supports evaluations and experiments.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- The platform describes petabyte-scale schema-less ingestion, a fully managed event store, and over 95% compression.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Axiom lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR support, HIPAA BAA availability, and regional data residency.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- cloudaxiom.co · read 24 Sep 2026
- Ingest formats
- Axiom accepts OTLP, JSON, CSV, and the Elasticsearch Bulk API, and discovers schema on arrival.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The integrations page lists OpenTelemetry, Vector, Fluent Bit, AWS services, Vercel, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, and SDKs including Go, Python, Node.js, Rust, Java, Ruby, .NET, and Flutter.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Axiom describes its Personal plan as intended for individual developers and small projects, and Axiom Cloud as for teams scaling from first deployment to hyperscale.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Limits
- The Personal plan has a 30-day retention window and allowances of 500 GB/mo data loading compute, 10 GB-hours query compute, and 25 GB storage.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yesaxiom.co · read 24 Sep 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yesaxiom.co · read 24 Sep 2026
- Observability
- Axiom brings logs, traces, and metrics together and supports navigation from metrics to traces to logs.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Axiom is a machine data platform for ingesting, storing, querying, and monitoring logs, traces, metrics, and events.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Querying
- Axiom supports APL, a piped query language, and MPL for metrics.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Log retention
- 30axiom.co · read 24 Sep 2026
- Security
- Axiom states that it uses TLS 1.2+ in transit and AES-256 encryption at rest, and provides tenant isolation and query-time redaction.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yesaxiom.co · read 24 Sep 2026
- Support
- Axiom Cloud includes email support, with paid SLA and dedicated support available; the Personal plan includes community support.axiom.co · read 9 Oct 2026
