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Datadog Pricing, Plans, and Availability

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Pricing at a glance

Datadog’s public pricing is best understood as a set of independent usage meters rather than a single packaged subscription. That matters for buyers because your bill can be driven by infrastructure hosts, containers, log ingestion, retained log events, APM hosts, security hosts, seats, test runs, or specialized add-ons such as Session Replay and Observability Pipelines. The public pricing page explicitly shows multiple billing cadences, including billed annually, billed month-to-month, and billed on-demand, but the actual total depends on the mix of products you activate and how much you use. In practical terms, smaller deployments may start with a low per-host or per-GB entry point, while broader observability and security footprints can add several overlapping meters. The page also surfaces retention-based pricing for logs and spans, which means longer retention increases cost even when usage volume stays constant. Because Datadog does not present one universal list price for the whole platform, buyers should model the exact modules they need before estimating spend.

◇ Pricing model

Modular usage-based pricing with separate product meters and a mix of per-host, per-container, per-seat, per-event, and per-test charges; some tiers are public, while quote-only or not-publicly-disclosed tiers are not shown.

↻ Billing notes

The public pricing page shows three billing cadences for many products: billed annually, billed month-to-month, and billed on-demand. The page also indicates some products have annual versus monthly pricing differences, and the Capterra reference summarizes the publicly visible Datadog starting prices for the Pro and Enterprise-style tiers. A few areas are not publicly disclosed on the supplied pages, so those details should be treated as not publicly disclosed rather than assumed. No free trial length, contract minimum, renewal term, or automatic discount is publicly disclosed in the supplied pricing documents.

Plans and pricing

28 tiers

Infrastructure Pro

monthly
$15 per infra host, per month billed annually
  • Infrastructure monitoring

Per infra host.

Infrastructure Enterprise

monthly
$23 per infra host, per month billed annually
  • Infrastructure monitoring

Per infra host.

DevSecOps Pro

monthly
$22 per infra host, per month billed annually
  • DevSecOps monitoring

Per infra host.

DevSecOps Enterprise

monthly
$34 per infra host, per month billed annually
  • DevSecOps monitoring

Per infra host.

Container Monitoring

monthly
$1 per container, per month
  • Container monitoring

Also listed as $0.002 per container hour on the public pricing page for an hourly meter.

Custom Metrics

monthly
$5 per 100 custom metrics, per month
  • Custom metrics

Metered per 100 custom metrics.

Ingested Custom Metrics

monthly
$0.10 per 100 ingested custom metrics, per month
  • Ingested custom metrics

Metered per 100 ingested custom metrics.

Custom Events

monthly
$2 per 100K custom events, per month
  • Custom events

Tiered usage includes $2, $2.40, or $3 depending on the offering shown on the pricing page.

APM

monthly
$31 per APM host, per month
  • Application performance monitoring

Per APM host.

APM Pro (APM and Data Streams Monitoring)

monthly
$35 per APM host, per month
  • APM
  • Data Streams Monitoring

Per APM host.

APM Enterprise (APM, Data Streams Monitoring, Continuous Profiler)

monthly
$40 per APM host, per month
  • APM
  • Data Streams Monitoring
  • Continuous Profiler

Per APM host.

Logs - Ingestion

monthly
$0.10 per ingested logs (1GB), per month
  • Log ingestion

Metered per ingested GB.

Logs - Indexed Log Events

monthly
$1.06 per 1M indexed logs (3-day retention), per month
  • Indexed log events

Other public tiers on the page include 7-day, 15-day, and 30-day retention at higher rates.

Logs - Forwarding to Custom Destinations

monthly
$0.25 per GB outbound, per destination, per month
  • Log forwarding

Per GB outbound, per destination.

Sensitive Data Scanner - Detect

monthly
$0.03 per scanned GB, per month
  • Sensitive data detection

Per scanned GB.

Observability Pipelines

monthly
$0.095 per ingested GB, per month
  • Observability pipelines

Per ingested GB.

Observability Pipelines Plus

monthly
$1,950 per vCPU, per month
  • Observability Pipelines Plus

Per vCPU.

Database Monitoring

monthly
$70 per database host, per month
  • Database monitoring

Per database host.

Cloud Security Management (CSM) Pro

monthly
$10 per CSM host, per month
  • Cloud security management

Per CSM host.

Cloud Security Management (CSM) Enterprise

monthly
$25 per CSM host, per month
  • Cloud security management

Per CSM host.

Workload Protection

monthly
$15 per Workload Protection host, per month
  • Workload protection

Per Workload Protection host.

App and API Protection

monthly
$31 per AAP host, per month
  • App and API protection

Per AAP host.

Cloud SIEM

monthly
$5 per 1M analyzed events, per month
  • Cloud SIEM

Per 1M analyzed events.

Product Analytics

monthly
$0.80 per 1,000 sessions, per month on full traffic
  • Product analytics

Per 1,000 sessions on full traffic.

Session Replay

monthly
$2.50 per 1,000 sessions, per month
  • Session replay

Add-on for RUM and Product Analytics.

On-Call

monthly
$20 per seat, per month
  • On-call management

Per seat.

Incident Management

monthly
$30 per seat, per month
  • Incident management

Per seat.

Incident Response

monthly
$40 per seat, per month
  • Incident response

Per seat.

Add-ons and extras

Session Replay

$2.50 per 1,000 sessions, per month

Listed as an add-on for RUM and Product Analytics on the public pricing page.

Cloud Security Management (CSM) Pro Containers

$0.50 per container, per month

Container-based meter for CSM Pro.

Cloud Security Management (CSM) Pro Containers

$0.001 per container hour

Hourly container-based meter for CSM Pro.

Workload Protection Containers

$1 per container, per month

Container-based meter for Workload Protection.

Workload Protection Containers

$0.002 per container hour

Hourly container-based meter for Workload Protection.

Fargate (Continuous Profiler)

$1.20 per Fargate task, per month

Fargate-based meter for continuous profiling.

Fargate (Workload Protection)

$2.60 per Fargate task, per month

Fargate-based meter for workload protection.

Fargate (App and API Protection)

$2 per Fargate task, per month

Fargate-based meter for app and API protection.

Hidden and indirect costs

Worth budgeting for
⚠  Datadog’s public pricing is highly modular, so buyers can underestimate total spend if they only model one core meter. A single deployment may accumulate charges from infrastructure hosts, log ingestion, indexed retention, APM hosts, security hosts, seats, test runs, and add-ons like Session Replay or Observability Pipelines. The pricing page also shows multiple retention-based log and span tiers, which means the same product category can cost more as retention grows. Separate units for containers, container hours, Fargate tasks, committer-based products, and per-seat collaboration tools can further increase the final bill.
⚠  Some offerings are presented with multiple billing units or tiered rates rather than a single flat subscription. That makes estimation sensitive to workload shape, such as how many containers are running, how many tests execute, how many events are analyzed, and how much data is retained. Where the public page does not show a complete bundle or minimum commitment, the real price will depend on usage mix and negotiated packaging.

What buyers actually pay

A small team starting with infrastructure monitoring and lightweight log ingestion.

Expected costNot publicly disclosed in total because cost depends on host count and log volume; the public meter starts at $15 per infra host per month billed annually and $0.10 per ingested GB per month.
infra host countlog ingestion volumebilling cadence

A team using APM plus retained logs for troubleshooting and alerting.

Expected costNot publicly disclosed in total because the bill depends on APM host count plus log ingest and retention. Public meters include $31 per APM host per month, $0.10 per ingested GB per month, and retention-based indexed log rates that rise with longer retention.
APM host countlog ingestion volumelog retention duration

A security-heavy buyer adding cloud security and workload protection.

Expected costNot publicly disclosed in total because the mix of CSM, workload protection, and container or host-based meters changes the bill. Public rates include $10 per CSM host per month, $15 per Workload Protection host per month, and additional container or Fargate meters where applicable.
CSM host countWorkload Protection host countcontainer or Fargate usage

Pricing FAQ

No. The supplied official pricing page shows Datadog as a modular platform with many separate meters rather than one flat subscription. Buyers can add infrastructure, logs, APM, security, digital experience, and collaboration products independently. That means the final price depends on which modules you activate and how much you use.

Yes for many products. The public pricing table explicitly shows columns for billed annually, billed month-to-month, and billed on-demand. However, not every product line has all three public cadences, so some specific tiers still require a closer look at the table or a sales quote.

A free trial is not clearly disclosed in the supplied official pricing pages. The homepage text includes a prompt to start a free Datadog trial, but the documents provided here do not specify trial length or terms. Treat trial details as not publicly disclosed from the sourced pricing documents.

The supplied documents do not clearly identify a quote-only price card for a named tier. Instead, many products are publicly metered by usage and several advanced or bundled items appear only as unit rates on the pricing page. Where Datadog does not publicly disclose a separate package price, the safest reading is that the exact total is not publicly disclosed and must be estimated from usage or obtained through sales.

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