Splunk pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe Splunk pricing
Splunk Observability Cloud: Infrastructure starts around $15 per host/month, with App & Infrastructure at $60 and End-to-End at $75, billed annually.
Compared to: Datadog · New Relic · Dynatrace
- Splunk Observability Cloud : Offers evaluation trials to test real-time, AI-driven streaming analytics and infrastructure monitoring.
Quick pricing summary
- Infrastructure: $15 host/month billed annually
- App & Infra: $60 host/month billed annually
- End-to-End: $75 host/month billed annually
- Worth noting: Observability Cloud host-based plans shown. Splunk Platform, Security, AppDynamics and On-Call prices are quote-based or not listed in this page's plan format.
Plans
Infrastructure
$15 host/month billed annually
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Log Observer Connect
- Network Explorer
- Synthetic Uptime Monitoring
App & Infra
$60 host/month billed annually
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Log Observer Connect
- Network Explorer
- Synthetic Uptime Monitoring
- APM (incl. Always On Profiling)
- Synthetic API Monitoring
End-to-End
$75 host/month billed annually
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Log Observer Connect
- Network Explorer
- Synthetic Uptime Monitoring
- APM (incl. Always On Profiling)
- Synthetic API Monitoring
- Real User Monitoring
- Synthetic Browser Monitoring
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Infrastructure | App & Infra | End-to-End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Log Observer Connect | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Network Explorer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Synthetic Uptime Monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| APM (incl. Always On Profiling) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Synthetic API Monitoring | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real User Monitoring | — | — | ✓ |
| Synthetic Browser Monitoring | — | — | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Database Monitoring | Contact us | Optional add-on to Observability Cloud plans |
| Secure Application | Contact us | Optional add-on to Observability Cloud plans |
Splunk pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Splunk | Free; paid from $15 / 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 → |
| 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.splunk.com/en_us/products/pricing.html. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.