by Dynatrace · dynatrace.com ↗
AI-powered observability and application performance monitoring for complex enterprise environments.
Dynatrace’s public pricing is centered on a consumption-based Dynatrace Platform Subscription, not a simple seat-based SaaS menu. The company says customers sign an agreement that is typically 1–3 years long with a minimum annual commitment, and then consume capabilities against a rate card. That structure gives buyers a clear entry point, but the final bill depends heavily on what you monitor, how much data you ingest, and how long you retain it. Public pages also emphasize that Dynatrace includes scalable volume discounts, multi-year discounts, and no penalties for exceeding commit, which makes the model feel more enterprise-friendly than punitive when usage grows. The tradeoff is that many cost drivers sit outside a single headline number, especially for logs, telemetry, sessions, security, and data egress. On the page below, the most visible bundles are priced per host, pod, container, session, or request, while the rate card exposes granular unit pricing for the underlying platform capabilities. For teams evaluating observability at scale, Dynatrace’s pricing story is best read as a mix of published list rates plus conversation-based commercial terms.
Consumption-based subscription with public rate-card pricing and bundle-style usage pricing; some tiers are quote-assisted for discounts or enterprise fit.
Dynatrace Platform Subscription is described as a consumption-based licensing model with an agreement typically lasting 1–3 years and a minimum annual commitment. The company says consumption accrues against that commitment based on a rate card, and once the annual commitment is reached, customers can continue using Dynatrace with on-demand usage and no overage premiums. Public pricing pages say multi-year and volume-based discounts are available, and the rate card says to contact Dynatrace for available discounts. A 15-day free trial is advertised on the main website, and a public playground is also available for hands-on evaluation.
Basic infrastructure monitoring and IT inventory; public page also notes this is billed at an hourly host rate.
Infrastructure observability for cloud, hyperscaler, and data center environments; public page specifies per-host hourly billing.
Public page states 10 days of trace data retention, extendable to 10 years.
Included on hosts with Full-Stack Monitoring for no additional charge.
No additional public limits disclosed on the pricing page beyond container-based billing.
Ingest & Process: $0.20 per GiB, Retain: $0.0007 per GiB-day, Query: $0.0035 per GiB-scanned.
Minimum 10, up to 35 days retention with queries included, extendable with usage-based option; Retain with included queries is $0.02 per GiB-day.
15 months of retention at 1-minute granularity included, extendable to 10 years.
10 days of retention included, extendable to 10 years.
Retention extendable to 10 years.
Public page notes the price is billed at $0.00225 per session.
Public page notes the price is billed at $0.0045 per session with replay capture.
Public page notes the price is billed at $0.0045 per synthetic action.
Public page notes the price is billed at $0.001 per synthetic request.
Detect and remediate critical 1st and 3rd party vulnerabilities at runtime.
Protect against and block exploitation attempts of your applications at runtime.
No additional public limits disclosed on the pricing page beyond host-based billing.
Usage-priced log ingestion and processing add-on for log analytics.
Retention add-on for log analytics data stored beyond ingestion and processing.
Query add-on for log analytics when paying per query scan.
Bundled retention option for log analytics with included queries.
Charge for data leaving the platform.
Public sandbox environment for exploring Dynatrace with sample data; pricing is not listed as a paid add-on.
A small infrastructure-only team wants host monitoring without full application tracing.
Expected cost$7 per host per month for Foundation & Discovery, billed hourly at $0.01 per host-hour.A platform team needs full-stack observability across applications and infrastructure.
Expected cost$58 per 8 GiB host per month, billed at $0.01 per memory-GiB-hour.A security-focused enterprise wants runtime protection and posture management.
Expected costAt least $13 per 8 GiB host per month for runtime security capabilities, plus $5 per host per month for posture management.A team mainly analyzing logs wants usage-based log pricing with retention choices.
Expected cost$0.20 per GiB ingested and processed, plus $0.0007 per GiB-day to retain and $0.0035 per GiB-scanned to query, or $0.02 per GiB-day for bundled retention with included queries.Yes, Dynatrace publishes a public pricing page and a detailed rate card with list prices for major capabilities. The company still recommends contacting pricing experts for volume discounts and the best fit for your organization. Some commercial terms remain negotiated, so public list pricing may not be your final price.
No public pricing page frames Dynatrace primarily as a user-seat product. The public materials emphasize consumption-based licensing, per-host, per-pod, per-container, per-session, per-request, and per-GiB pricing instead. That means usage and footprint are the main cost drivers rather than named-user seats.
Dynatrace says there are no penalties for exceeding the commit. The docs explain that after the annual commitment is reached, customers can continue to use Dynatrace while incurring on-demand usage with no overage premiums. This is a key distinction for buyers forecasting bursty or growing usage.
Yes, Dynatrace advertises a 15-day free trial on its website. It also offers a public playground where users can explore sample data without installing software. Those two options let buyers evaluate the platform before committing to paid consumption.
