Ghostfolio
Grafana
| Feature | Ghostfolio | Grafana |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free / from $5.99/mo | Free / from $29/mo |
| Free Plan | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Rating | 4.3 / 5 | 4.6 / 5 |
| Best For | privacy-focused-investors, self-hosters, passive-investors, international-portfolios | devops-teams, sre-teams, data-engineers, iot-monitoring |
| Founded | 2021 | 2014 |
| Portfolio Tracking | ✓ | ✗ |
| Performance Analysis | ✓ | ✗ |
| Allocation Views | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multi Currency | ✓ | ✗ |
| Dividends | ✓ | ✗ |
| Benchmarking | ✓ | ✗ |
| Self Hostable | ✓ | ✗ |
| Dashboards | ✗ | ✓ |
| Data Sources | ✗ | ✓ |
| Alerting | ✗ | ✓ |
| Annotations | ✗ | ✓ |
| Plugins | ✗ | ✓ |
| Loki Logs | ✗ | ✓ |
| Tempo Traces | ✗ | ✓ |
| Mimir Metrics | ✗ | ✓ |
✓ Ghostfolio Pros
- Open-source with self-hosting option
- Privacy-focused (no data selling or ads)
- Supports stocks, ETFs, crypto, commodities
- Beautiful portfolio allocation visualizations
✗ Ghostfolio Cons
- Limited broker integrations (manual entry mostly)
- Smaller community than commercial alternatives
- No tax-loss harvesting or advisor features
✓ Grafana Pros
- Connects to virtually any data source
- Beautiful and highly customizable dashboards
- Open-source with massive community
- Grafana Cloud includes Loki, Tempo, and Mimir
- Alerting across all data sources
✗ Grafana Cons
- Self-hosting requires DevOps expertise
- Dashboard creation has a learning curve
- Plugin quality varies
The Verdict
Ghostfolio is built for privacy focused investors and self hosters, with a focus on portfolio-tracking and performance-analysis. Grafana targets devops teams and sre teams and leads with dashboards and data-sources.
On pricing, Ghostfolio is the clear winner for budget-conscious users — starting at $5.99/mo compared to $29/mo for Grafana. That $23.009999999999998/mo difference adds up quickly for growing teams.
Both offer free plans, so you can test each with your real workflow before committing to a subscription.
Feature-wise, Grafana offers broader built-in capabilities (8 features vs 7), while Ghostfolio takes a more focused approach — which can mean a simpler, faster onboarding experience.
Bottom line: Grafana has a slight overall edge — but if open-source with self-hosting option matters most to you, Ghostfolio may still be the right call.