How Grafana prices
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Grafana plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| FreePerfect for personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups. | $0 | |
| ProReady for scaling with more retention, basic support, and usage-based pricing. | $19 | / month + usage with volume discounts |
| EnterpriseA full-service offering for companies with security, compliance, and deployment requirements. | $25,000 | / year spend commit |
As printed on the page captured September 19, 2026.
How does Grafana pricing work?
Each product carries the meter that matches its resource. Metrics bill at '$6.50 / 1k series', logs, traces and profiles at three rates per GB, $0.050 Process, $0.400 Write and $0.100 Retain, Kubernetes Monitoring per host hour and per container hour, Application and Database Observability per host hour, Frontend Observability at '$0.750 / 1k sessions', and Grafana Assistant at '$20.00 / active AI user (includes 40M tokens per user)' with additional tokens at $2 per 1M. Packaging is three plans across all of them: Free at 'Always $0', Pro 'From $19 / month + usage with volume discounts', and Enterprise from a $25,000 annual commit. The Pro platform fee is written as an allowance on each product, such as '10k active series per month then pay as you go' and '50 GB ingested per month then pay as you go', so the base charge buys a working amount of every service before metering begins.
The motion is hybrid: Start free and Sign up on Free and Pro, Contact us on Enterprise, with the commit minimum printed so a buyer sees where the sales path begins. The page opens on a pricing thesis, then three plan cards, then a Pricing Philosophy strip of three principles, Adaptive, Scalable pricing and Composable, then 'Estimate your Grafana Cloud cost', an interactive calculator, and then Product pricing: a left index grouped under Telemetry, Observability, AI, Testing, Visualization and IRM, and for each product a Free, Pro and Enterprise trio, an optimization band where one applies, and a product-specific FAQ. The consistent block structure means a buyer who learns how to read Metrics can read every product after it.
Under the hood, every meter runs on graduated volume tiers. The calculator shows it for metrics: Included 1 - 10,000 free, Tier 1 at $6.50, Tier 2 at $5.90 and Tier 3 at $5.50 per 1k series, with the blended rate drawn as a curve that bends down as volume grows and 'Contact us for bigger discounts' past the last tier. Enterprise moves the same meters onto an annual commit, 'As low as $3 / 1k series' for metrics and 'Scalable unit price based on annual commit' elsewhere, which is commercial room for commitment-based pricing. The Adaptive band is the strategic move: 'Optimize metrics by up to 80%' and 'Optimize log ingest by up to 50%' sit on the pricing page, so the vendor sells cost control alongside the meter. Worth borrowing: a calculator that shows the blended rate and the marginal rate side by side, which turns 'automatic volume discounts' into a picture.
What does Grafana's pricing page do well?
- Enterprise prints its entry point, 'Starts at $25,000 / year spend commit', so a buyer knows where the sales path begins
- The $19 platform fee is stated as an allowance on each product, such as 10k active series or 50 GB ingested per month, before pay as you go begins
- An embedded calculator plots the blended rate falling across Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3, alongside the marginal rate and the Adaptive savings
- Fractional rates come with practical equivalents, '$0.0100 / per host hour ($7.20/host)' and '$0.070 / host hour (~$51 / host)'
- Each product carries its own FAQ beside its rates, answering what a billable series, a host hour or a session is where the unit is priced
What does Grafana's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- Every product has its own meter, series, GB, host hours, sessions or active AI users, matched to the resource it consumes
- Logs, traces and profiles split one gigabyte into Process, Write and Retain, pricing each stage of the data's life separately
- Graduated tiers lower the marginal rate as volume grows, and Enterprise moves the same meters onto an annual commit
- Adaptive Metrics and Adaptive Logs put cost reduction on the pricing page, which backs the hero's claim about the ingest model
- Grafana Assistant pairs a per-active-user price with included tokens and a token rate beyond them, a seat plus usage structure for the AI product
Learn with Orb
- ProductExperience Kit The embedded calculator plots the blended rate falling across three volume tiers beside the marginal rate; Orb's Experience Kit builds pricing calculators and usage dashboards on one source of pricing truth.
- DocsConfiguring plans: minimums and plan phases Enterprise starts at a $25,000 annual spend commit on the same meters; in Orb, a dollar commitment like that is a minimum, and plan phases step committed spend up on a schedule.
- GuidePay-as-you-go pricing for SaaS Pro is $19 a month plus pay as you go, with an allowance on each product before metering begins; Orb's guide covers common pay-as-you-go structures and revenue that scales with use.
Questions about Grafana pricing
How much does Grafana cost?
Grafana's pricing starts at $19/mo. The page shows 3 plans, including a free plan, with the top plan priced through sales.
What pricing model does Grafana use?
Grafana prices by usage, combined with a mix of seats and usage and flat-rate tiers. Buyers can sign up on their own or go through the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at developers.
Does Grafana have a free plan?
Yes, Grafana has a free plan. Paid plans start at $19/mo.
Does Grafana offer an annual discount?
Grafana's pricing page shows a single billing period. The listed prices start at $19/mo. Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is Grafana's pricing page laid out?
The page shows 3 plans and includes a calculator and an FAQ. The breakdown above marks 14 points on it: 9 things it does well and 5 insights into the pricing.
How are tokens and AI users billed for Grafana Assistant?
On Pro, Grafana Assistant starts at "$20.00 / active AI user (includes 40M tokens per user)", with additional tokens starting at "$2 / 1M tokens". The $19 monthly platform fee includes 3 active AI users per month (40M tokens / user / mo) and 25M tokens per month for system-initiated usage before pay as you go begins. The Free plan offers the same 3 active AI users and 25M system-initiated tokens, and Pro adds automatic volume discounts for AI users.
How does Grafana Cloud price logs per GB?
Logs on Pro are priced at three stages per gigabyte: starting at $0.050/GB Process, $0.400/GB Write and $0.100/GB Retain. The $19 monthly platform fee includes 50 GB ingested per month with 30 days retention, then pay as you go with automatic volume discounts. Grafana also offers Adaptive Logs, which can "Optimize log ingest by up to 50%" by recommending unused telemetry to drop.
What is the minimum commit for Grafana Cloud Enterprise?
Grafana Cloud Enterprise "Starts at $25,000 / year spend commit", and each product lists a "Minimum commit of $25,000 per year." The plan brings premium support, custom retention and deployment flexibility across Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud. Unit prices scale with the annual commit, with metrics priced "As low as $3 / 1k series".
From the page as captured September 19, 2026. Current prices are on grafana.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.
Datadog
$15/host/moDatadog publishes a rate card per product, with every billable SKU listed in a left-hand navigator from AI Credits to Workflow Automation. Infrastructure Monitoring prices per host across three host levels: Basic, set with sales, beside Pro starting at $ 15 and Enterprise at $ 23 billed annually, with on-demand rates printed beside them and allotments of containers, custom metrics and custom events attached to each paid host. The bill is the sum of the products a customer adopts, and Basic hosts let one account price noncritical workloads at their own level.
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.
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.