OpenObserve pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe OpenObserve pricing
- OpenObserve: Fully transparent pay-as-you-go cloud pricing based strictly on data volume ($0.50/GB ingested and $0.01/GB queried).
Compared to: Splunk · Datadog · Grafana
Quick pricing summary
- Cloud Professional: $0.5 GB ingested, plus $0.01/GB queried, billed monthly
- Cloud Enterprise: Custom (contact sales)
- Self-Hosted Enterprise: $0 free up to 50 GB ingestion per day; contact sales above that
- Annual billing: saves 30% vs monthly
- Worth noting: Open Source edition is free forever for self-hosted use. AI-powered features are free during preview with 20 credits. Discounts are available for eligible startups, non-profits and educational institutions via sales.
Plans
Cloud Professional
$0.5 GB ingested, plus $0.01/GB queried, billed monthly
- Fully managed cloud
- Logs, Metrics, Traces, RUM, Session Replay, Error tracking
- Unlimited users
- Metrics retention 15 months
- Non-metrics retention 30 days
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
Cloud Enterprise
Custom contact sales
- Custom scale and compliance
- Custom volume discounts
- Bring your own bucket (BYOB)
- Infinite retention with BYOB
Self-Hosted Enterprise
$0 free up to 50 GB ingestion per day; contact sales above that
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Federated search
- Query management
- Workload management (QoS)
- Audit trail
- Sensitive data redaction
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Additional non-metrics retention | $0.02 per GB | Logs, traces, RUM and other non-metrics data beyond the default 30 days, per additional 30-day period |
OpenObserve pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenObserve | Free; paid from $0.5 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| Splunk | Free; paid from $15 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | SecOps, ITOps and engineering teams that run large volumes of machine data and need security and observability in one platform | 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 → |
| 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 → |
List prices as published on openobserve.ai/pricing/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.