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- Axiom is a fully managed cloud platform for ingesting, storing, and querying large volumes of machine data such as logs, metrics, traces, and custom events.
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- It uses schema-less ingestion, high compression, and piped query languages (APL and MPL) to keep data always queryable without managing infrastructure.
- Pricing is usage-based with a monthly platform fee, automatic volume discounts, and a permanent free tier.
- Best for
- Teams whose log and event volumes have outgrown terabyte-scale tooling, who need long retention without hot/cold tiers, or who want an incremental, non-rip-and-replace path away from Splunk.
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- Also fits organizations deploying AI agents against observability data via a native MCP server.
- Pricing
- Axiom Cloud costs a $25/month platform fee plus usage, with no minimum commitment and an always-free allowance of 1 TB/month data loading compute, 100 GB-hours/month query compute, and 100 GB storage.
More detail
- Usage beyond the allowance receives automatic volume discounts, and pre-purchased compute credits c
- Main limitation
- Individual developers or small projects expecting everything free, since the Personal plan caps storage at 25 GB and retention at 30 days.
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- Also not ideal for organizations that need SSO, RBAC, or Directory Sync at zero cost, as these are paid self-serve add-ons on Axiom Cloud and unavailable on Personal.
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About
- Axiom is a fully managed cloud platform for ingesting, storing, and querying large volumes of machine data such as logs, metrics, traces, and custom events.
- It uses schema-less ingestion, high compression, and piped query languages (APL and MPL) to keep data always queryable without managing infrastructure.
- Pricing is usage-based with a monthly platform fee, automatic volume discounts, and a permanent free tier.
What it helps with
- Cost explosion at petabyte scale, where teams sample, drop, or aggregate logs to stay under budget.
- Shrinking data visibility as volumes grow, making incidents harder to diagnose.
- Unpredictable billing from bundled SKUs, indexing tiers, and overage tiers.
- Operational burden of self-managed observability clusters, including schema migrations and capacity planning.
- Splunk migration friction, addressed by a sidecar deployment without renegotiating existing contracts.
Capabilities
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| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Schema-less ingest | Yes | Stream-oriented, schema-on-read architecture with virtual fields for query-time transformation. |
| Compression | Yes | Homepage claims 95%+ compression; docs mention 25-50x, a first-party conflict favoring the newer homepage figure. |
| Query languages | Yes | APL for logs and MPL for metrics, both piped and sequential. |
| Always-hot data | Yes | All data is always queryable on demand with no hot/cold tiers, per first-party FAQ. |
| AI-agent access | Yes | Native MCP server, SRE skill, and Metrics skill included on both Personal and Axiom Cloud plans. |
| Query-time redaction | Yes | Sensitive fields are masked on read without being stripped from storage. |
| SSO and RBAC | Limited | SAML/OIDC SSO and RBAC are available as paid self-serve add-ons on Axiom Cloud only. |
| Audit logging | Yes | Immutable audit trail is queryable in APL, but Extended Audit Logs is a paid add-on. |
| Splunk App | Limited | Marked 'In preview' on the pricing page. |
| HIPAA BAA | Limited | Available as a self-serve add-on; SOC 2 Type II and GDPR are included. |
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