Uptrace pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Uptrace Cloud: Custom (per GB ingested, usage-based; no seats or hosts)
- Community Edition: $0 free forever, self-hosted
- On-premises: Custom (license, contact sales)
- Worth noting: Cloud per-GB rate is stated as both from $0.075/GB and starting at $0.10/GB on the same page; no fixed plan prices are published.
Plans
Uptrace Cloud
Custom per GB ingested, usage-based; no seats or hosts
- 50 GB free every month, then from $0.075/GB
- Volume discounts apply automatically
- Unlimited users, services, and hosts
- Hard monthly budget cap
- Billed monthly at month end or at $400, whichever comes first
- Default 4-week (28-day) retention
Community Edition
$0 free forever, self-hosted
- Self-hosted installation
- No limits
- Free forever
On-premises
Custom license, contact sales
- Installed on your own servers with a license
- Free evaluation period
- Terraform and Ansible automation
- Custom retention policies
- Dedicated support engineer
- SOC 2 certification on request
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Uptrace Cloud | Community Edition | On-premises |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 50 GB/mo free | ✓ | Free evaluation period |
| Hosted by Uptrace | ✓ | — | — |
| Self-hosted | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited users, services, and hosts | ✓ | ✓ | not stated |
| Hard budget cap | ✓ | not stated | not stated |
| Custom retention policies | not stated | not stated | ✓ |
| Dedicated support engineer | not stated | not stated | ✓ |
| Terraform and Ansible automation | not stated | not stated | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Cold storage for spans, logs and errors | $0.01 per GB-month | Spans kept beyond 4 weeks on cold storage |
| Cold storage for metrics | $0.20 per 1,000 timeseries-month | Active timeseries kept beyond 4 weeks on cold storage |
| Dropped data from sampling | $0.01 per GB | Data dropped by sampling configuration |
Uptrace pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptrace | Contact sales | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| 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 → |
| Honeycomb | Free; paid from $150 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Engineering teams running distributed services and AI agents in production, including dev, ops, SRE, and platform teams | Compare → |
List prices as published on uptrace.dev/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.