Grafana Cloud Pricing 2026: Plans and Cost

Grafana Cloud pricing 2026: Free $0 with 10K metrics + 50 GB logs + 50 GB traces; Pro $19/mo + usage (10K metrics + 50 GB logs included, tiered up to $5.50/1K series, $0.50/GB logs); Advanced annual commit with $25K minimum. Grafana Cloud is the most cost-effective observability platform below 50 GB/month of telemetry volume.

Last verified: Sep 16, 2026.

At a glance

• Free: $0, 10K metrics, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 14-day retention
• Pro platform fee: $19/month
• Metric tier 1: $6.50/1K active series/mo (10K-100K)
• Metric tier 3: $5.50/1K active series/mo (200K+)
• Log overage: tiered, starting ~$0.50/GB
• Advanced minimum: $25K annual commit

Side-by-side pricing comparison

The three tiers: Free, Pro, Advanced

Grafana Cloud is structured around three pricing tiers that map to team size and budget.

Free at $0/month: All Grafana Cloud services with usage limits, 14-day retention for metrics/logs/traces/profiles/k6 performance tests, Adaptive Telemetry features, AI Assistant, and community support. No credit card required. The Free tier is generous: 10K active metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 50 GB profiles, plus all observability features (Grafana pricing page, August 2026).

Pro at $19/month platform fee + usage: Everything in Free plus 13 months retention for metrics, 30 days retention for logs/traces/profiles/k6 performance tests, 8x5 email support, pay-as-you-go above included amounts, and Adaptive Telemetry optimization. Pro is the typical starting tier for scaling teams that need more retention and basic support (Grafana pricing page, August 2026).

Advanced: Custom retention, premium support, deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud), and volume discounts at lower thresholds than Pro. Advanced requires an annual commit with a $25,000 minimum annual spend. Advanced is the typical enterprise entry point.

The pricing page lists three Self-Service paid plans: Free, Pro, and a higher tier typically accessed via annual commit. Contracted Cloud accounts are configured to the needs of the customer according to agreed terms.

Metric series pricing: tiered with Adaptive Metrics

Grafana Cloud metric pricing is per 1,000 active metric series per month with three tiers.

Tier 1 (10,001-100,000 active series): $6.50 per 1,000 series/month.

Tier 2 (100,001-200,000 active series): $5.90 per 1,000 series/month.

Tier 3 (200,001+ active series): $5.50 per 1,000 series/month.

The first 10,000 active series per month are included free in the Pro plan. Adaptive Metrics can reduce billable active series by up to 80% through aggregation and cardinality optimization (Grafana pricing page, August 2026).

Example for 500,000 active series: Without Adaptive Metrics, 490,000 series x tiered rates = first 90,000 x $6.50 + next 100,000 x $5.90 + next 300,000 x $5.50 = $585 + $590 + $1,650 = $2,825/month. With Adaptive Metrics at 50% reduction, effective rate drops to ~$5.77 per 1,000 series = $1,413/month.

Adaptive Metrics eliminates unused time series data through aggregation and cardinality optimization. This is the single largest cost lever for metrics bills in Grafana Cloud.

Logs, traces, and profiles: usage-based

Logs are billed per GB ingested with tiered volume discounts.

The first 50 GB of logs per month are included in the Pro $19 platform fee. Additional GB is billed at tiered rates with adaptive cost reduction. Published rates for additional usage start around $0.50/GB and decrease with volume (Grafana documentation, 2026).

Adaptive Logs can reduce billable ingest by up to 50% by identifying commonly ingested log patterns and creating customized recommendations for dropping unused telemetry.

Traces: usage-based pricing per GB ingested with tiered rates. The first 50 GB of traces per month are typically included. Profile data and k6 performance tests are similarly billed per GB.

Retention beyond 30 days for logs/traces/profiles/k6 requires Advanced or custom contract. The 13-month retention for metrics in Pro is much longer than the 30-day retention for other signals — this asymmetry reflects the historical Grafana Cloud focus on Prometheus-style metric analytics.

Region pricing differences

Grafana Cloud pricing varies significantly by region.

Grafana Cloud is offered in three primary regions: US (default), EU, and APAC (Singapore). The EU region is typically 15-20% cheaper than US for the same workload. Singapore is the most expensive region, often 40-60% above US rates.

For US-based teams, the default US region is the typical choice. For EU data residency compliance, the EU region is required. For APAC teams with high volume, the Singapore region pricing is rarely justified and most teams proxy through the US region with appropriate data residency considerations.

Region is selected at stack creation and cannot be easily migrated. Choose the region at signup based on the team's primary data residency and compliance requirements (Grafana documentation, 2026).

Volume discounts: automatic starting July 2026

As of July 1, 2026, every Grafana Cloud Pro customer on the latest plan earns automatic volume discounts based on consumption.

Discounts begin at around $500 per month of spend per product and deepen from there. As usage grows, the effective rate decreases automatically without renegotiation. Volume discounts are per-product, so metrics, logs, and traces each earn their own discounts independently.

Volume tiers reset each billing period, so the discount matches what is consumed that month. The discount applies to each band of usage at its own rate; crossing a threshold only changes the rate for the next band, not the whole bill (Grafana documentation, 2026).

Example with volume discounts: A team consuming 500,000 active metric series in a month has an effective rate of $5.77 per 1,000 series (versus $6.50 base). That is an 11% savings from volume discounts alone.

Committed contract agreements can offer even better unit economics at higher usage levels. The published volume discounted rates are meant for customers on basic usage plans; if usage is scaling and the team is ready to commit, a committed contract agreement can offer even better unit economics (Grafana documentation, 2026).

Real-world TCO: solo, mid-market, enterprise

Grafana Cloud is dramatically cheaper than Datadog at every scale.

Solo developer (Free): $0/month with up to 10K metrics, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 14-day retention. Sufficient for personal projects and side projects.

Small team (Pro, 50K metrics + 200 GB logs): $19 + tiered usage. 50K metrics = $260 (40K billable at $6.50/1K), 200 GB logs = $75 (150 billable at ~$0.50/GB) = $354/month. At list without negotiation.

Mid-market (Pro, 500K metrics + 1 TB logs): $19 + usage. 500K metrics = $2,825, 1 TB logs = $475 = $3,319/month. With Adaptive Metrics and Adaptive Logs at 50% reduction: $1,700-$2,000/month.

Enterprise (Advanced, $25K+ annual commit): Custom pricing with deeper volume discounts, custom retention, premium support, and deployment flexibility. Typical enterprise spend at 1M metrics + 5 TB logs is $10K-$15K/month with annual commit (Grafana pricing page, August 2026).

How to choose between Grafana Cloud, Datadog, New Relic, and Dynatrace

The decision hinges on three variables: budget, openness preference, and feature depth.

1. Budget. Cost-sensitive teams below $5K/month: Grafana Cloud Free/Pro is the obvious choice. Cost-insensitive teams needing full enterprise feature depth: Datadog or Dynatrace. Mid-budget teams: New Relic usage-based or Grafana Cloud Pro with annual commit.
2. Openness preference. Want open-source-friendly stack with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope: Grafana Cloud. Want proprietary vendor lock-in with deepest feature set: Datadog or Dynatrace. Want consumption-based simplicity with proprietary platform: New Relic.
3. Feature depth. Need deep AI root-cause (Davis CoPilot): Dynatrace. Need extensive product portfolio (CIEM, CSPM, RUM, synthetics): Datadog. Need usage-based pricing simplicity: New Relic. Need cost-effective core observability: Grafana Cloud.

What enterprise buyers should do next

Three actions for organizations evaluating Grafana Cloud in 2026.

1. Start with the Free tier to benchmark your actual usage. The Free tier is genuinely generous for evaluation. Ship your instrumentation, see your actual active metric series, log GB, and trace GB, then compute Pro pricing for those volumes.
2. Enable Adaptive Metrics and Adaptive Logs before scaling. Adaptive Metrics can cut billable metric series by up to 80%. Adaptive Logs can cut log ingest by up to 50%. Both are free and automatic; enabling them at the start prevents bill shock at scale.
3. Consider the Advanced annual commit above $25K spend. If your projected Pro spend exceeds $2,000/month (i.e., the $25K annual minimum), the Advanced annual commit unlocks deeper volume discounts, premium support, and deployment flexibility that Pro cannot match.

What to watch next

Three near-term datapoints. First, the Grafana Labs observability conference GrafanaCON in late October — expect announcements on AI-powered observability features and Adaptive Telemetry improvements. Second, the Federal Cloud expansion — Grafana has been expanding FedRAMP-aligned offerings; expect more regions and compliance certifications through 2027. Third, the Application Observability product GA pricing — Grafana has been developing an APM product with eBPF-based auto-instrumentation; pricing structure will become clearer in late 2026.