Datadog — Infrastructure monitoring from $15 a host a month — and a catalogue of twenty-plus separately priced products that is where the real Datadog bill comes from.
Short answer: Datadog prices each product separately. Infrastructure monitoring is Free for up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention, Pro at $15 per host per month billed annually ($18 on-demand) with 15-month retention and 1,000+ integrations, and Enterprise at $23 per host annually ($27 on-demand) with machine-learning alerts, live processes and a governance console. APM starts at $31 per host, rising to $35 (Pro) and $40 (Enterprise). Logs are $0.10 per GB ingested plus $1.70 per million events indexed for 15 days ($2.55 on-demand), with Flex Logs from $0.60 per million events stored. Synthetic browser tests are $12 per thousand runs, incident management $30 per seat and the Bits AI agent bundle starts at $500 per 500 credits. There is a 14-day free trial.
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Verdict at a glance
Overall rating: 4.0/5 ★★★★☆
Standout: Everything is on one pricing page with annual and on-demand rates side by side — Pro $15 versus $18, Enterprise $23 versus $27 — which is rarer than it should be for a platform of this size.
Watch out: The $15 host price is one SKU of many. APM, logs, RUM, synthetics, security and the Bits AI agents are each priced on their own units, so a team that adopts Datadog across the stack should budget per product, not per host.
Datadog is the most complete observability platform a team can buy, and its pricing page is honest about how it is sold: as a catalogue, not a plan. Infrastructure monitoring is the anchor. Free covers up to 5 hosts with core collection and one-day metric retention; Pro is $15 per host per month billed annually ($18 on-demand) and adds 1,000-plus integrations, out-of-the-box dashboards and 15-month metric retention; Enterprise is $23 annually ($27 on-demand) for machine-learning-based alerts, live processes and the governance console. DevSecOps bundles run $22 and $34 per host. From there every capability is its own line: APM at $31, $35 or $40 per host; logs at $0.10 per ingested GB plus $1.70 per million indexed events for 15 days ($2.55 on-demand), or Flex Logs from $0.60 per million events stored and $0.05 per million in Flex storage; browser synthetics at $12 per thousand runs and mobile app tests at $50 per hundred; incident management at $30 per seat or $40 in the response bundle; network device monitoring at $7 per device; code coverage at $8 per committer; and the Bits AI agents at $500 per 500 credits billed annually or $1.30 per credit on demand. None of these figures is hidden and the 14-day trial is real. The rating reflects that combination: best-in-class breadth, published unit prices, and a cost model that rewards teams who decide in advance which products they will actually turn on. A ten-host shop that only needs infrastructure and logs can run this for a few hundred dollars a month; a team that enables APM, RUM, synthetics and security across the same hosts will find each of those is a comparable bill again.
Quick facts
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ideal team | Platform and SRE teams monitoring cloud infrastructure and services |
| Learning curve | Moderate — many products, each with its own units |
| Setup time | Agent install in minutes; full rollout takes weeks |
| Free trial | 14 days |
| Free tier | ⭐ Up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention |
| Entry | $15/host/mo Infrastructure Pro (annual) — $18 on-demand |
| Enterprise | $23/host/mo annual — $27 on-demand |
| APM | ⚠️ $31–$40 per host on top; logs $0.10/GB ingested |
Overview
Datadog is a SaaS observability platform covering infrastructure metrics, application performance monitoring, logs, real user monitoring, synthetic testing, security and, most recently, AI agents that investigate and remediate issues. An agent on each host or integration ships telemetry to Datadog, where dashboards, alerts and the products below sit on the same data. The commercial model is modular: infrastructure monitoring is priced per host, and every other product is priced on its own unit — hosts for APM, ingested gigabytes and indexed events for logs, test runs for synthetics, seats for incident management, credits for the AI agents.
Infrastructure monitoring has three tiers. Free costs $0 for up to 5 hosts with core collection and visualisation and one-day metric retention. Pro is $15 per host per month billed annually or $18 on-demand, with 1,000-plus integrations, out-of-the-box dashboards and 15-month metric retention. Enterprise is $23 per host annually or $27 on-demand, adding machine-learning-based alerts, live processes and a governance console. DevSecOps Pro and Enterprise bundles, which fold in cloud security, are $22 and $34 per host. APM is separate: $31 per host at entry, $35 for APM Pro and $40 for APM Enterprise, again per host per month.
Logs are priced in two parts — $0.10 per GB ingested or scanned, then $1.70 per million events for standard indexing with 15-day retention ($2.55 on-demand), with longer retention tiers quoted on request. Flex Logs Starter is $0.60 per million events stored and Flex storage $0.05 per million, for historical investigation without full indexing. Around those sit synthetic browser testing at $12 per thousand test runs, mobile app testing at $50 per hundred runs, continuous testing at $79 per additional parallelisation, incident management at $30 per seat standalone or $40 in the incident response bundle, network device monitoring at $7 per device, code coverage at $8 per committer ($12 on-demand) and the Bits AI bundle — Bits Chat, automated investigations, Bits Code and the agent builder — from $500 per 500 credits billed annually or $1.30 per credit on-demand. Multi-year and volume discounts are noted for several products, and a 14-day free trial applies.
Key features
- Infrastructure monitoring — Free to 5 hosts; Pro $15/host; Enterprise $23/host (annual)
- On-demand rates published — ⭐ $18 and $27 per host without an annual commitment
- APM — ⚠️ $31, $35 or $40 per host on top of infrastructure
- Logs — $0.10/GB ingested plus $1.70 per million indexed events (15 days)
- Flex Logs — $0.60 per million events stored; Flex storage $0.05 per million
- Synthetics — browser tests $12 per 1,000 runs; mobile $50 per 100
- Incident management — $30 per seat; $40 in the response bundle
- DevSecOps bundles — $22 (Pro) and $34 (Enterprise) per host
- Bits AI agents — ⚠️ from $500 per 500 credits; $1.30 per credit on-demand
- 15-month metric retention — on Pro and above; 1 day on Free
Pricing (as of 2026-09-29)
Model: per-product pricing on separate units: hosts, GB, events, test runs, seats and credits · Free tier: ⭐ Yes — up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention · Entry paid: Infrastructure Pro $15/host/mo (annual)
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Free | $0 | Up to 5 hosts · core collection and visualisation · 1-day metric retention |
| Infrastructure Pro | $15/host/mo annual · $18 on-demand | 1,000+ integrations · out-of-the-box dashboards · 15-month metric retention |
| Infrastructure Enterprise | $23/host/mo annual · $27 on-demand | Machine-learning alerts · live processes · governance console |
| APM | $31 / $35 / $40 per host/mo | Entry, Pro and Enterprise tiers, billed in addition to infrastructure |
| Logs | $0.10/GB ingested + $1.70 per M events | Standard indexing with 15-day retention; $2.55 per M on-demand; Flex Logs from $0.60 per M stored |
⚠️ Every product is billed separately. A host running infrastructure Pro ($15) plus APM Pro ($35) is $50 a month before logs, and the security, RUM and synthetics products each add their own unit charges on top.
⚠️ Log costs have two components — ingestion at $0.10 per GB and indexing at $1.70 per million events for 15-day retention. Longer retention tiers are quoted on request, and Flex Logs ($0.60 per million events stored) exists for data you keep but rarely query.
⭐ Annual and on-demand rates are both on the page: Pro $15 versus $18, Enterprise $23 versus $27, code coverage $8 versus $12, Bits AI $1.00 versus $1.30 per credit. On-demand is roughly 20–30% dearer.
The Bits AI bundle (Bits Chat, automated investigations, Bits Code, Agent Builder) starts at $500 per 500 credits a month billed annually. It is priced in credits, not hosts, so its cost scales with how often the agents are invoked rather than with fleet size.
Ratings breakdown
| Criterion | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Ease Of Use | 4.0/5 | Agent install is quick; the product surface is large |
| Features | 5.0/5 | ⭐ The widest observability catalogue on the market |
| Value | 3.0/5 | ⚠️ Fair unit prices that add up across many products |
| Support | 4.0/5 | Standard support included; enterprise support by contract |
Pros
- Free tier covers 5 hosts with no card
- Annual and on-demand rates both published — $15/$18 and $23/$27 per host
- Infrastructure, APM, logs, RUM, synthetics and security on one data platform
- 15-month metric retention on Pro
- Flex Logs offers a cheaper path for rarely queried data
- 14-day free trial
- Volume and multi-year discounts noted on the page
Cons
- ⚠️ APM is $31–$40 per host on top of the $15 infrastructure price
- ⚠️ Logs bill twice — per GB ingested and per million events indexed
- ⚠️ Bits AI agents start at $500 a month in credits
- On-demand pricing is 20–30% above annual
- Free tier keeps metrics for only one day
- Total cost is hard to predict until each product is scoped
Who it’s for
- Cloud-native teams that want infrastructure, APM and logs from one vendor
- Organisations with the discipline to scope products before enabling them
- Teams who value 15-month metric retention and 1,000+ integrations
- Enterprises that need governance, ML alerts and security in the same platform
Who it’s not for
- Small teams who only need metrics — Grafana Cloud’s free tier or New Relic’s 100 GB free ingest may suffice
- Anyone expecting a single per-host price to cover APM and logs
- Cost-sensitive log-heavy workloads without a retention strategy
- Teams that cannot commit annually and want to avoid the on-demand premium
Best use cases
- Monitoring a 20-host fleet on Infrastructure Pro for $300 a month
- Adding APM Pro to the same hosts for another $700 a month
- Ingesting 500 GB of logs a month at $50 plus indexing
- Running 10,000 browser synthetic tests a month for $120
- Staffing an on-call rotation with incident management at $30 per seat
Integrations
Datadog lists more than 1,000 integrations on Pro, covering the major clouds, Kubernetes, databases, CI systems and SaaS tools, plus log drains from platforms such as Vercel and Supabase. The Bits AI agents connect to the same telemetry, and code coverage and test optimisation hook into GitHub-based CI. Communications platforms such as Twilio are commonly wired into incident management for alerting.
How it compares
| Datadog | New Relic | Grafana Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry paid | $15/host/mo (Infrastructure Pro, annual) | $0.40/GB ingested beyond 100 GB free | $19/mo platform fee (Pro) |
| Free tier | ⭐ 5 hosts, 1-day retention | 100 GB ingest and one full-platform user | Always free: 10k series, 50 GB logs, 14 days |
| Pricing unit | ⚠️ Per host, per GB, per event, per seat | Per GB ingested plus per user | Per 1k metric series ($6.50) plus usage |
| Full-platform users | Included | $10 first, $99 each additional on Standard; $349 on Pro | Included |
| APM | $31–$40 per host extra | Included in ingest | Included in usage |
| Best fit | Broadest catalogue, per-product budgeting | Usage-based with user seats | Open-source stack, lowest entry |
All figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 2026-09-29: datadoghq.com/pricing, newrelic.com/pricing and grafana.com/pricing. New Relic’s Pro user price is $349 on annual commitment or $418.80 monthly.
Alternatives
New Relic prices on data rather than hosts — 100 GB of ingest free, $0.40 per GB beyond, with full-platform users at $10 for the first and $99 each after on Standard — which favours small fleets with light data. Grafana Cloud has an always-free tier and a $19 Pro platform fee with $6.50 per thousand metric series, built on the open-source Grafana, Prometheus and Loki stack. Both are cheaper to start; neither matches Datadog’s product breadth. For the hosting side, Vercel and Supabase ship their own basic observability and forward logs to Datadog via drains.
Recent changes
As of 2026-09-29, datadoghq.com/pricing lists Infrastructure monitoring at Free (up to 5 hosts), Pro at $15 per host per month billed annually or $18 on-demand, and Enterprise at $23 annually or $27 on-demand, with DevSecOps Pro and Enterprise at $22 and $34 per host. APM is $31 per host at entry, $35 for Pro and $40 for Enterprise. Logs are $0.10 per GB ingested plus $1.70 per million events for 15-day standard indexing ($2.55 on-demand), with Flex Logs Starter at $0.60 per million events stored and Flex storage at $0.05 per million. Other published units are browser synthetic tests at $12 per thousand runs, mobile app testing at $50 per hundred, continuous testing at $79 per additional parallelisation, incident management at $30 per seat ($40 in the response bundle), network device monitoring at $7 per device and code coverage at $8 per committer ($12 on-demand). The Bits AI bundle — Bits Chat, automated investigations, Bits Code and Agent Builder — is priced from $500 per 500 credits billed annually or $1.30 per credit on-demand. A 14-day free trial is offered.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Datadog cost?
Infrastructure monitoring is free for up to 5 hosts, $15 per host per month on Pro billed annually ($18 on-demand) and $23 on Enterprise ($27 on-demand). APM adds $31 to $40 per host, logs are $0.10 per GB ingested plus $1.70 per million events indexed, and every other product — synthetics, RUM, security, incident management, the Bits AI agents — carries its own unit price.
Is there a free Datadog plan?
Yes. The Free infrastructure tier covers up to 5 hosts with core collection and visualisation, but keeps metrics for only one day. There is also a 14-day free trial of the paid products.
What is the difference between Datadog Pro and Enterprise?
Pro ($15 per host annual) adds 1,000-plus integrations, out-of-the-box dashboards and 15-month metric retention. Enterprise ($23) adds machine-learning-based alerts, live processes and the governance console. Neither includes APM, which is priced separately from $31 per host.
How are Datadog logs priced?
In two parts: $0.10 per GB ingested or scanned, then $1.70 per million events for standard indexing with 15-day retention ($2.55 on-demand). Flex Logs Starter at $0.60 per million events stored and Flex storage at $0.05 per million cover data you keep for historical investigation without full indexing.
How does Datadog compare with New Relic and Grafana Cloud?
Datadog charges per product on separate units, starting at $15 per host. New Relic charges per GB ingested ($0.40 beyond 100 GB free) plus per full-platform user ($10 for the first, $99 each additional on Standard). Grafana Cloud has an always-free tier and a $19 Pro platform fee with $6.50 per thousand metric series. Datadog is broadest; the other two are cheaper to start.
What do the Datadog Bits AI agents cost?
The Bits AI bundle — Bits Chat, automated investigations, Bits Code and the Agent Builder — starts at $500 per 500 credits a month billed annually, or $1.30 per credit on-demand. It is metered in credits rather than hosts, so cost tracks how often the agents are invoked.
Sources
- Datadog – official pricing page, all products (read 2026-09-29)
- Datadog – homepage (read 2026-09-29)
- Datadog – billing documentation (read 2026-09-29)
Compiled from public sources; last verified 2026-09-29. Pricing is subject to change — verify with the vendor. Ratings reflect editorial opinion based on documented capabilities, published pricing, and aggregated user reviews. DigiJaws does not accept payment for review placement or rating.
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