How Datadog prices
Captured November 2, 2026 at 1440px wide.
Datadog plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| BasicEssential coverage for noncritical workloads | — | Per host, per month |
| ProCentralize your monitoring of systems, services, and serverless functions | $ 15 | Per host, per month* |
| EnterpriseAdvanced features and administrative controls | $ 23 | Per host, per month* |
As printed on the page captured November 2, 2026.
How does Datadog pricing work?
The value metric for Infrastructure is the host, defined in the FAQ as 'any physical or virtual OS instance that you monitor with Datadog'. Basic is priced 'Per host, per month' with 'Contact sales for pricing' and is described as 'Essential coverage for noncritical workloads', Pro is $ 15 per host per month with '*Billed annually or $18 on-demand', and Enterprise is $ 23 or $27 on-demand. Each paid host license carries allotments, 5 or 10 containers, 100 or 200 custom metrics and 500 or 1000 custom events, while the Basic column reads 'Not supported' for containers and '0 per host allotted' for custom metrics and events. The Free tier now lives in the FAQ as 'up to five Basic hosts with 1-day metric retention, at no cost', so the no-cost entry and the Basic level share one unit.
The motion is self-serve with sales paths at both ends of the host range. The hero promises 'Flexible, transparent pricing designed to scale with your business', offers FREE TRIAL and CONTACT US, and names 'Multi-Year/Volume discounts available'. A DATADOG SITE selector and a grouped product navigator run down the left, and the main column opens with an INFRASTRUCTURE HOSTS selector above three cards: Basic with LET'S TALK, and Pro and Enterprise with START FREE TRIAL. Below sit a 'Multi-Year/Volume discounts available (500+ hosts/mo)' line, a Features table that prints quantities for Basic, Pro and Enterprise, Support Plans & Post Sales Services, and Common Questions.
Under the hood, the FAQ shows a layered meter. Containers beyond the allotment bill at '$0.002 per container per hour' or prepaid at $1 per container per month, custom events at '$2 for 100 000 custom events', and custom metrics 'are counted hourly and averaged monthly across your entire account, not on a per-host basis', so allotments pool across the account. 'Annual, monthly and hourly plans are available', and the coverage rules are explicit: 'You can choose one level of infrastructure coverage for your Datadog account', with Basic available for a subset of hosts on Pro or Enterprise and the DevSecOps bundles covering the entire environment. A host price with pooled allotments, metered overage and a lighter host level for noncritical workloads is a pattern worth borrowing: one headline unit, priced to match how much each host matters.
What does Datadog's pricing page do well?
- Annual and on-demand rates are printed on every self-serve card, such as '*Billed annually or $18 on-demand' under $ 15, so a buyer can price a commitment before talking to sales
- The Features table prints allotments as numbers across all three levels, from '0 per host allotted' on Basic to 100 and 200 custom metrics on Pro and Enterprise
- The Basic card states its mixing rule in place: 'Basic hosts can be mixed with either Pro or Enterprise hosts in the same account.'
- A grouped product navigator exposes the full SKU catalog on one page, with a Datadog Site selector above it for regional rates
- The FAQ opens by defining the billing unit, 'A host is any physical or virtual OS instance that you monitor with Datadog', and closes by spelling out which coverage levels can be combined
What does Datadog's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- Allotments attached to each host let Datadog price high-cardinality data, containers, custom metrics and custom events, while keeping the host as the headline metric
- Basic is gated on exactly those data dimensions, with container monitoring 'Not supported' and zero custom metrics, which points to a lower-cost host level for noncritical workloads
- Basic carries a public unit and a sales-set rate, which keeps room to shape price by volume and term for large fleets of lighter hosts
- Custom metrics averaged monthly across the whole account turn per-host allotments into a shared pool
- On-demand rates about 20% above annual price flexibility and make the annual commitment the default buy
Learn with Orb
- ProductInvoicing The bill is a sum of per-product rate cards, with hosts counted hourly and custom metrics averaged monthly; Orb's invoicing shows real-time usage detail that customers follow and finance reconciles.
- GuideAn AI founder's guide to prepaid credits Pro at $15 billed annually or $18 on-demand, with overage beyond per-host allotments, maps to Orb's guide on how commitments earn a better rate and how usage past them bills at an overage rate.
- GuideAn expert's guide to enterprise pricing for SaaS Multi-year and volume discounts begin at a printed 500+ hosts a month, the handoff to deal-by-deal pricing that Orb's enterprise pricing guide covers.
Questions about Datadog pricing
How much does Datadog cost?
Datadog's pricing starts at $15/host/mo. The page shows 3 plans, including a free plan, with the top plan priced through sales.
What pricing model does Datadog use?
Datadog prices by usage, combined with flat-rate tiers. Buyers can sign up on their own or go through the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at enterprises.
Does Datadog have a free plan?
Yes, Datadog has a free plan, and its paid plans offer a free trial. Paid plans start at $15/host/mo.
Does Datadog offer an annual discount?
Yes: $15 annual vs $18 on-demand (about 17%). The listed prices start at $15/host/mo. Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is Datadog's pricing page laid out?
The page shows 3 plans and includes a comparison table and an FAQ. The breakdown above marks 14 points on it: 6 things it does well and 8 insights into the pricing.
What are Datadog Basic hosts and how are they priced?
Basic is priced 'Per host, per month' with 'Contact sales for pricing', and its card routes to LET'S TALK. It is described as 'Essential coverage for noncritical workloads' with core system metrics, out-of-the-box dashboards and 15-month metric retention. The Features table lists Container Monitoring as 'Not supported' and 0 custom metrics and custom events allotted per host for Basic.
Can I mix Basic, Pro, Enterprise and DevSecOps hosts in one Datadog account?
Each account chooses one level of infrastructure coverage: Pro, Enterprise, DevSecOps Pro, or DevSecOps Enterprise. On Pro or Enterprise, a subset of hosts can be monitored with Basic level coverage. The DevSecOps bundles cover the entire environment and stand on their own, apart from standalone infrastructure, container, or cloud security products.
How much does Datadog charge for containers beyond the per-host allotment?
Depending on the plan, Datadog includes 5 or 10 containers free for each host license. Additional containers are billed at '$0.002 per container per hour', and prepaid containers cost $1 per container per month, or $1.50 per container per month for DevSecOps Containers. Container monitoring is not available for Basic hosts.
From the page as captured November 2, 2026. Current prices are on datadoghq.com
Chroma
$250/mo + usageChroma prints all four metered rates in the hero, Write at $2.50 per GiB, Storage at $0.33 per GiB per month, Query at $0.0075 per TiB and Network at $0.09 per GiB returned, then hands the reader a calculator that turns documents and queries into a $79 monthly total. Plans sit on top of the meter: Starter at $0 plus usage, Team at $250 a month plus usage with $100 in credits, and Enterprise on custom terms.
Confluent
~$385/moConfluent prices serverless Kafka on a composite meter, eCKU-hours plus data in and out per GB plus storage per GB-month, and closes its rate table with an 'Estimated Monthly Starting Cost' of $0, $385, $895 and $2,300 that turns an hourly unit into a budget number. Behind it sit two discount structures and an annual commitment that can be spent across the whole Confluent Cloud stack.
Fly.io
From $0.0030/hr (shared-cpu-1x, 256MB)Fly.io prices raw infrastructure: Machines 'Billed by the second while a Machine runs', volumes on provisioned capacity, and egress by region, with prices set per region through a selector. Support is sold as its own ladder at '$29 / mo', '$199 / mo' and 'From $2,500 / mo', compliance is a '$99/mo' add-on, and a Custom plan covers committed spend and volume discounts.
Grafana
$19/moGrafana Cloud prices on a $19 per month platform fee that carries an allowance on every product, then a usage meter chosen per product, with volume tiers that lower the marginal rate as a customer grows. The hero states the thesis, 'Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it.', and the page backs it with an embedded calculator that draws the tier curve and a cost-reduction band under the rates. Enterprise prints its entry point: 'Starts at $25,000 / year spend commit'.
Modal
$250 + compute/moModal bills GPU, CPU, memory and storage by the second or month, and network egress at '$0.04 / GiB', with the full rate card under the promise of paying for 'just actual compute time, by the CPU cycle'. Plans are a platform fee plus that usage: Starter at $0 with $30 of monthly credits and 1 TiB of egress, Team at $250 with $100 and 10 TiB, and a custom Enterprise with 100 TiB. A worked comparison makes the serverless case on utilization, with a $3.95 GPU-hour that totals '12% lower cost' than $3 GPU-hours provisioned around the clock.
MongoDB
$0.011/hourMongoDB Atlas prices two product lines by the hour, each translated into a monthly figure. Atlas Core keeps Free at $0, Flex at $0.011 an hour with 'Up to $30/month', and Dedicated at $0.08 an hour that 'Starts at $56.94/month', while Atlas Infinite adds a public-preview tier at '$0.09 /hour' that 'starts at $65/month' for elastic AI workloads. Flex remains the design to study, a usage tier with a printed ceiling, and Infinite shows a premium tier layered on the same hourly meter.