SolarWinds Observability pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- SolarWinds Observability SaaS: $8 per node per month
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted: $8 per node per month
- Worth noting: Starting prices are per node per month. Multi-year contracts are billed annually. Volume discounts are available.
Plans
SolarWinds Observability SaaS
$8 per node per month
- Visibility across hybrid IT, including custom apps, microservices, Kubernetes, and containers
- Unified data across metrics, traces, logs, and user experience
- Extensible with open-source framework, public API, and third-party integrations
- Fully functional trial for 30 days
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
$8 per node per month
- Deploy behind your firewall or self-hosted in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP
- Flexible licensing that allocates nodes across multiple instances
- Built from network management leadership and enhanced with machine learning
- Volume discounts available
- Fully functional trial for 30 days
What you get on each plan
| Feature | SolarWinds Observability SaaS | SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | SaaS, hosted by SolarWinds | Self-hosted, behind your firewall or in AWS, Azure, or GCP |
| Free trial | Fully functional for 30 days | Fully functional for 30 days |
| Volume discounts | Contact sales | ✓ |
SolarWinds Observability pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SolarWinds Observability | $8 / mo | No · 30-day trial | Usage-based | — | |
| Datadog | $0.05 / mo | No | Usage-based | Engineering teams that maintain, optimize and secure cloud or hybrid environments | 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 → |
| 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 → |
| 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 → |
List prices as published on www.solarwinds.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.