# InfluxDB Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 InfluxDB Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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InfluxDB

## What is InfluxDB?

InfluxDB is time series database software from InfluxData for handling metrics and events. It ingests, processes, and stores time series data including metrics, application logs, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics. This allows users to build monitoring, analytics, and reporting applications. Key capabilities include high availability, horizontal scalability, advanced compression, and native SQL query support. InfluxDB is designed to provide robust time series data management for DevOps, IoT, and monitoring use cases.

## What is InfluxDB used for?

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Overall rating

Based on 7 user reviews

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## Compare with a popular alternative

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### InfluxDB

4.6 (7)

VS.

[### Apache Cassandra](https://www.capterra.com/p/148406/Apache-Cassandra/)

[4.2 (33)](https://www.capterra.com/p/148406/Apache-Cassandra/reviews/)

Starting Price

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Starting Price

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Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.3 (7)

Ease Of Use

4.0 (33)

Value For Money

4.3 (6)

Value For Money

4.5 (25)

Customer Service

4.0 (6)

Customer Service

3.7 (24)

## InfluxDB alternatives

[ORBCOMM](https://www.capterra.com/p/236749/ORBCOMM/)

[3.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/236749/ORBCOMM/#reviews)

Starting price

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[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/236749/ORBCOMM/)

Highest Rated

[Mingo](https://www.capterra.com/p/228399/Mingo/)

[5.0 (14)](https://www.capterra.com/p/228399/Mingo/reviews/)

Starting price

$5.00

Per User, Per Month

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/228399/Mingo/)

[AWS IoT Greengrass](https://www.capterra.com/p/235474/AWS-IoT-Greengrass/)

[4.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/235474/AWS-IoT-Greengrass/#reviews)

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[AWS IoT Core](https://www.capterra.com/p/245523/AWS-IoT-Core/)

[4.5 (2)](https://www.capterra.com/p/245523/AWS-IoT-Core/#reviews)

Starting price

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[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/245523/AWS-IoT-Core/)

## Pricing

Value for money

4.3 (6)

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Value for money

4.3 (6)

4.3

Based on 6 reviews

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.0 (6)

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-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.0 (6)

4.0

Based on 6 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.6

Based on 7 reviews

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5(4)

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Ava H.

Staff Software Engineer

Computer Software

### "Fast and efficient time series database"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

September 10, 2024

However, the initial setup and learning the ins and outs of the system can be a bit challenging, but it’s definitely worth it once you’re up and running.

Pros

I really like how fast and efficient InfluxDB is for handling time-series data. It’s perfect for tracking metrics and events, and querying the data feels quick and easy.

Cons

The only thing that bothers me is the steep learning curve. It takes some time to get used to the query language and set up everything properly.

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MG

Mia G.

Associate software engineer

Computer Software

### "Efficient Time-Series Data Storage"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

July 30, 2024

Pros

I quickly set up a dashboard to monitor server metrics and got real-time insights.

Cons

I struggled to find clear instructions on setting up advanced queries.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Developer

Computer Software

### "Easy time series storage and analysis"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

November 24, 2023

I got it to handle a lot of metrics without any issues, the integration with Grafana is nice.

Pros

The query language is nice and easy to use

Cons

I personally don't like much the ingestion API, so I resorted to use Telegraf with Statsd input.

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AU

Anonymous User

Teacher, Research Coördinator, Energy Manager

Education Management

### "InfluxDB - Review from an educational point of view"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

September 1, 2023

Good as a Time Series database. Ideal to teach students the link between programming, database and visualisations.

Pros

InfluxDB 2.0 is easy in use and understandable for students. Influx is making it possible to store all the data of sensors, energy systems,... easily from software (Python, Node-Red) to visualisation. It is also possible to make visualisations in Influx, but we are using Influx mainly as Timeseries database. Very usefull when working with energy data sets that are time related.

Cons

We where struggling in the past when Influx 1.0 went to Influx 2.0. A lot of our research projects had a complete different data structure. So it was a big adjustment. But now when using 2.0. It is better and Influx database became also a lot user friendly then in the past.

Alternatives considered

[MariaDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/132005/MariaDB/)

Reasons for choosing InfluxDB

Easy in use, structured, good Time series database.

Review source

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RM

Rakesh M.

Architect

Computer Networking

### "Perfect for Time-Series Database! "

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

June 9, 2023

Docker-based implementation on EC2 has been convenient and moving DB to EKS really improved our DB replication and stability.

Pros

Scalability and High-performance are some of the outstanding features of influxdb, we did a stress test of multiple hundreds of IoT clients and scaled effortlessly.

Cons

yet another DB with its own language for implementation, text-based searching is not really well implemented and lacks data replication

Review source

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AU

Anonymous User

COO

Information Technology and Services

### "Low-code proof of concept for IoT projects"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 22, 2023

Pros

The ease with which you can connect data from Node red to Influx DB and visualize it with Grafana is seamless and easy to use. It is a perfect platform to create a database for IoT projects and it can handle a lot of data queries without crashing.

Cons

It takes a bit of time to get the hang of the flux queries and to convert queries to Flux.

Alternatives considered

[MongoDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/127374/MongoDB/)

Review source

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AU

Anonymous User

Senior System Administrator

Telecommunications

### "InfluxDB (install and delivery)"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

November 21, 2022

used as non-relational DB from Thingworx application, light and fast databases

Pros

easy to install and deploy also in cluster version

Cons

non-relational db are different from normal db so more difficult to learn

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