Grafana pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe Grafana pricing
For an ongoing free option rather than a time-limited trial, Grafana Cloud and New Relic offer permanent free tiers within usage limits.
Compared to: Datadog · New Relic · Dynatrace
- Grafana Cloud: free tier, then around $19/month plus usage.
- Grafana Cloud : Offers a permanent free tier alongside managed trials for exploring metrics, logs, and traces using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
Quick pricing summary
- Free: $0 month
- Pro: $19 month + usage
- Enterprise: $25,000 year spend commit (starting)
- Worth noting: Pro: $19/month platform fee plus usage. Enterprise: minimum commit $25,000/year, contact sales. Automatic volume discounts.
Plans
Free
$0 month
- All Grafana Cloud services, with usage limits
- Adaptive Telemetry, AI Assistant, and much more
- Community support
- 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
Pro
$19 month + usage
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited access to all Grafana Cloud services; pay as you go above the free tier
- Adaptive Telemetry, AI Assistant, and much more
- 8x5 email support
- 13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
Enterprise
$25,000 year spend commit (starting)
- Premium support
- Custom retention
- Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Free | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metrics included | 10k active series/month | 10k active series/month then pay as you go | Custom |
| Logs/traces/profiles included | 50 GB/month | 50 GB/month then pay as you go | Custom |
| Metrics retention | 14 days | 13 months | Custom |
| Logs/traces/profiles retention | 14 days | 30 days | Custom |
| Frontend sessions | 50k/month | 50k/month then pay as you go | Custom |
| Active AI users | 3/month | 3/month then pay as you go | Custom |
| Support | Community | 8x5 email | Premium |
| Deployment flexibility | — | — | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Metrics | From $6.50 / 1k series (Enterprise as low as $3 / 1k series) | Pro, Enterprise |
| Logs | From $0.050/GB process, $0.400/GB write, $0.100/GB retain | Pro |
| Traces | From $0.05/GB process, $0.40/GB write, $0.10/GB retain | Pro |
| Profiles | From $0.05/GB process, $0.40/GB write, $0.10/GB retain | Pro |
| Kubernetes Monitoring | From $0.01 / host hour; $0.0007 / container hour | Pro |
| Application Observability | From $0.025 / host hour | Pro |
| Frontend Observability | From $0.75 / 1k sessions | Pro |
| Database Observability | From $0.07 / host hour | Pro |
| Grafana Assistant | From $20 / active AI user; $2 / 1M additional tokens | Pro |
| Agent Observability | From $1.50 / 1k generations; $2 / 1M tokens | Pro |
| Synthetics API Testing | From $5 / 10k API test executions | Pro |
| Synthetics Browser Testing | From $50 / 10k browser test executions | Pro |
Grafana pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grafana | Free; paid from $19 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| Datadog | $0.05 / mo | No | Usage-based | Engineering teams that maintain, optimize and secure cloud or hybrid environments | Compare → |
| 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 → |
| 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 grafana.com/pricing/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.