Netdata pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Community: $0 free forever, up to 5 nodes
- Business: $7 node/month
- Homelab: $90 year
- Cloud On-Premises: Custom (contact sales)
- Worth noting: Business includes pooled log and trace quotas. Netdata states that metrics are unlimited on paid plans.
Plans
Community
$0 free forever, up to 5 nodes
- Free forever
- Up to 5 nodes
- Unlimited metrics
Business
$7 node/month
- Pay per node
- Pooled log and trace quotas
- Unlimited metrics
Homelab
$90 year
- Personal, non-commercial use only
- Same engine, dashboards and ML as Business
Cloud On-Premises
Custom contact sales
- Full Netdata Cloud platform on-premises
- Air-gapped deployment
- Custom compliance controls
- Dedicated support team
Netdata pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netdata | Free; paid from $7 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | — | |
| 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 → |
| OpenTelemetry | — | — | — | Teams that want to instrument applications once and keep the freedom to change observability backends | Compare → |
| Datadog | $0.05 / mo | No | Usage-based | Engineering teams that maintain, optimize and secure cloud or hybrid environments | 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 → |
List prices as published on www.netdata.cloud/pricing/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.