Datadog pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe Datadog pricing
Sources: Official Datadog pricing, Splunk pricing, New Relic pricing and published 2026 pricing comparison.
Compared to: New Relic · Grafana · Dynatrace
- For example, Datadog separates APM host pricing from indexed log events and log storage.
- Datadog: about $15 per host/month for infrastructure monitoring, before add-ons such as APM and logs.
- Datadog: Infrastructure Pro starts at $15 per host/month when billed annually, versus $18 on demand.
Quick pricing summary
- AI Credits: $500 per 500 credits per month, billed annually (on-demand $1.30 per credit)
- Code Coverage: $8 per committer per month, billed annually (on-demand $12)
- Log Management Ingest: $0.1 per ingested or scanned GB per month, billed annually (on-demand $0.10)
- Flex Storage: $0.05 per million events stored per month, billed annually (on-demand $0.075)
- Flex Logs Starter: $0.6 per million events stored per month
- Worth noting: Prices shown are starting prices in USD for individual products. Many products, including Log Indexing retention tiers, Flex Compute and enterprise options, are listed as Contact Us for Pricing. Multi-year and volume discounts are available without a stated percentage. Text was truncated and may omit some products.
Plans
AI Credits
$500 per 500 credits per month, billed annually (on-demand $1.30 per credit)
- Bits Chat, Bits Investigation, Bits Code, Bits Agent Builder, Bits Database Optimization
- Unused credits do not roll over
- Overage billed at on-demand rate
Code Coverage
$8 per committer per month, billed annually (on-demand $12)
- Line, file and branch coverage across repositories
- Automated PR quality gates
- Coverage thresholds to block untested code
- Included free for eligible Test Optimization or Code Security committers
Log Management Ingest
$0.1 per ingested or scanned GB per month, billed annually (on-demand $0.10)
- Ingest, process, enrich, live tail and archive logs
- Out-of-the-box parsing for 200+ log sources
- Log-based metrics
- Self-hosted archives with ad-hoc rehydrate
Flex Storage
$0.05 per million events stored per month, billed annually (on-demand $0.075)
- Minimum retention of 1 month up to 15 months
- No rehydration needed for long-term retention
- Best for infrequently accessed logs
Flex Logs Starter
$0.6 per million events stored per month
- Retention options of 3, 6, 12 and 15 months
- Bundled starter compute for log volumes below 2B per month
- Minimum retention of 3 months
Datadog pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datadog | $0.05 / mo | No | Usage-based | — | |
| New Relic | Free; paid from $10 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Engineers responsible for application and system uptime and reliability, and teams that want full-stack observability starting from a free tier. | Compare → |
| Grafana | Free; paid from $19 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Teams that want open-standard observability without lock-in, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises | Compare → |
| Dynatrace | $1.4 / mo | No · 15-day trial | Usage-based | Large enterprises running cloud-native, hybrid and AI workloads that want one platform for observability and security | Compare → |
| OpenTelemetry | — | — | — | Teams that want to instrument applications once and keep the freedom to change observability backends | Compare → |
List prices as published on www.datadoghq.com/pricing/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.