Dash0 and Maple are both OpenTelemetry-native with transparent usage-based pricing and no per-seat fees. The difference is ownership: Maple is open source and self-hostable, so you can run it on your own infrastructure — including your own ClickHouse — for full data sovereignty and retention control, instead of a closed SaaS backend.
Maple's source is available under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1) — inspect every line, contribute features, and trust there are no black boxes. Dash0's backend is closed-source SaaS.
Run Maple on your own infrastructure for data residency and compliance. Dash0 is SaaS-only, so your telemetry has to live in their cloud.
Self-hosting puts you in control of retention and storage — keep data as long as your compliance and debugging workflows require, instead of fixed SaaS windows.
Keep telemetry inside your own infrastructure for sovereignty and compliance — no third-party cloud sees your data unless you choose the hosted version.
Maple's query engine speaks ClickHouse, so a self-hosted deployment can run on a ClickHouse instance you operate and scale yourself.
Both platforms ingest standard OTLP, so moving your telemetry is just re-pointing your OpenTelemetry Collector exporter — no instrumentation changes. (Dashboards and alerts are recreated in Maple.)