Grafana Cloud Pricing 2026 Free Pro Advanced Plans

At a glance

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

Grafana Cloud pricing 2026 has three tiers: Free at $0 with 10K metrics, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces per month; Pro at $19 per month base fee plus usage-based charges (10K metrics and 50 GB logs included, with additional usage at tiered rates up to $5.50 per 1K active series for metrics and $0.50 per GB for logs); and Advanced with a $25K minimum annual commit for enterprise procurement. Grafana Cloud is the most cost-effective observability platform below 50 GB per month of telemetry volume.

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, per the Grafana pricing page as of August 2026.

Free at $0 per month: all Grafana Cloud services with usage limits, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and 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.

Pro at $19 per month platform fee plus usage: everything in Free plus 13 months retention for metrics, 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, and 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.

Advanced: custom retention, premium support, deployment flexibility across 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.

Metric series pricing: tiered with Adaptive Metrics

Grafana Cloud metric pricing is per 1,000 active metric series per month with three tiers, per the Grafana pricing page as of August 2026.

Tier 1 (10,001 to 100,000 active series): $6.50 per 1,000 series per month. Tier 2 (100,001 to 200,000 active series): $5.90 per 1,000 series per month. Tier 3 (200,001+ active series): $5.50 per 1,000 series per 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 percent through aggregation and cardinality optimization.

Example for 500,000 active series: without Adaptive Metrics, 490,000 series at tiered rates equals $585 plus $590 plus $1,650 = $2,825 per month. With Adaptive Metrics at 50 percent reduction, the effective rate drops to approximately $5.77 per 1,000 series = $1,413 per month.

Logs, traces, and profiles: usage-based

Logs are billed per GB ingested with tiered volume discounts, per the Grafana documentation 2026. 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 per GB and decrease with volume. Adaptive Logs can reduce billable ingest by up to 50 percent by identifying commonly ingested log patterns and creating customized recommendations for dropping unused telemetry.

Traces are usage-based priced 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, and k6 requires Advanced or custom contract.

Region pricing differences

Grafana Cloud pricing varies significantly by region, per the Grafana documentation 2026. Grafana Cloud is offered in three primary regions: US (default), EU, and APAC (Singapore). The EU region is typically 15 to 20 percent cheaper than US for the same workload. Singapore is the most expensive region, often 40 to 60 percent 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.

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, per the Grafana documentation 2026. 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.

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, an 11 percent savings from volume discounts alone. Committed contract agreements can offer even better unit economics at higher usage levels.

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

Grafana Cloud is dramatically cheaper than Datadog at every scale, per the Grafana pricing page as of August 2026.

Solo developer (Free): $0 per 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 plus 200 GB logs): $19 plus tiered usage. 50K metrics = $260 (40K billable at $6.50 per 1K), 200 GB logs = $75 (150 billable at approximately $0.50 per GB) = $354 per month at list without negotiation.

Mid-market (Pro, 500K metrics plus 1 TB logs): $19 plus usage. 500K metrics = $2,825, 1 TB logs = $475 = $3,319 per month. With Adaptive Metrics and Adaptive Logs at 50 percent reduction: $1,700 to $2,000 per 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 plus 5 TB logs is $10K to $15K per month with annual commit.

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 per month: Grafana Cloud Free or 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, and 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 percent. Adaptive Logs can cut log ingest by up to 50 percent. 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 per month (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 2026, where announcements on AI-powered observability features and Adaptive Telemetry improvements are expected. Second, the Federal Cloud expansion, with more regions and compliance certifications through 2027. Third, the Application Observability product GA pricing, with Grafana's APM product using eBPF-based auto-instrumentation expected to clarify pricing in late 2026.

Resources and next steps

• Grafana Cloud pricing page: grafana.com/pricing
• Grafana Cloud documentation: grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation: opentelemetry.io
• Grafana Adaptive Metrics: grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/data-sources/metrics
• GrafanaCON 2026 conference: grafana.com/events/grafanacon