Datadog vs Grafana Cloud pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (2 days ago)Source: Datadog: www.datadoghq.com/pricing/, Grafana Cloud: grafana.com/pricing/Verified shows the older of the two.

Monthly cost at three volumes

Monthly cost of Datadog and Grafana Cloud at three volumes and at your own
Volume	Datadog	Grafana Cloud
small5 gb of logs ingested	$0.50 / moLog Management Ingest	$0 / moFree
growing100 gb of logs ingested	$10 / moLog Management Ingest	$0 / moFreeexcludes unpriced usage
scale2K gb of logs ingested	$200 / moLog Management Ingest	$0 / moFreeexcludes unpriced usage
your volumeset above	$10 / moLog Management Ingest	$0 / moFreeexcludes unpriced usage

Each cell is the cheapest feasible plan, or the chosen model, at that volume, from the shared Overage cost function. "Cheapest model" only considers models with both an input and an output price listed. Volumes are example scenarios you can edit.

Tiers, aligned by position

Tiers of Datadog and Grafana Cloud aligned by position: free, entry, mid, top
Position	Datadog	Grafana Cloud
Free	no tier	$0 / moFree · 50 gb of logs ingested / mo
Entry	unlistedLog Management Ingest	$19 / moPro · 50 gb of logs ingested / mo
Mid	no tier	$0 / moFree · 50 gb of logs ingested / mo
Top	no tier	$19 / moPro · 3 seats / mo

Tightest rate limit

Tightest documented rate limit of each service
Measure	Datadog	Grafana Cloud
Tightest limit	unlisted	unlisted

Changes in the last 90 days

No changes recorded.

No change detected for either service in the last 90 days.