Datadog
Broad SaaS monitoring platform (infrastructure, APM, logs) priced per host plus per-GB log ingest and per-million-event log indexing.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- subscription
- Free tier
- Free plan for up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention; no log management.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.datadoghq.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Modeled rates
Pricing
Published rates converted using workload assumptions. Read the notes. Assumes 1 KB per indexed event and indexes all ingested logs for 30 days. APM and custom metrics are extra. How to read these estimates.
| Plan | Log ingestion + retention / GB | Monitored host / month |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 |
| Pro (annual) | $2.6 | $15 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
Free
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included logs / month (GB)
- 0
- Log ingestion + retention / GB
- $0
- Monitored host / month
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 5 monitored hosts; no log ingest
Pro (annual)
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included logs / month (GB)
- 0
- Log ingestion + retention / GB
- $2.6
- Monitored host / month
- $15
Infrastructure Pro is $15/host/month billed annually ($18 month-to-month or on-demand); Enterprise $23 ($27). APM starts at $31/host annually. Logs are billed twice: ingestion $0.10/GB plus indexing per million events, $2.50/M with 30-day retention annually ($3.00 monthly, $3.75 on-demand; 15-day is $1.70/M). At ~1 KB per event, 1M events is ~1 GB, so per_gb = $0.10 + $2.50 = $2.60. Flex Logs storage is $0.05/M events (annual) for cheaper, slower search. EU1 site (Germany) is selectable at signup on all plans. Custom metrics, APM, RUM and synthetics are extra.
What companies report paying
What other customers have paid for Datadog, with sources. Their usage, features and discounts may differ from yours; these are not quotes.
- $154,080/yr · Vendr median annual contract value; range shown $21,265–$716,560; 1,140 purchases, ~10% average savings
“Median buyer pays $154,080 per year Based on data from 1,140 purchases, with buyers saving 10% on average.”
Vendr purchase data, Oct 2026 - $6,000,000/yr · Unnamed company (former customer, left over billing transparency); no usage stated
“And to be clear, while we aren't a "whale" our spend was over $6M/yr with Datadog”
Hacker News, Jan 2025 - $65,000,000/yr · Coinbase; total Datadog bill for calendar 2021 (settled Q1 2022), confirmed by the author with Coinbase engineers; Datadog later renegotiated at a much lower figure.
“Yes. Coinbase spent $65M with Datadog in 2021, and this was their due bill for that year.”
Blog post, May 2023 - $360,000/yr · Log management only, info-level logging across five environments with >7 days retention; annualized from >$30k/month
“Between the volume of having all the services set at the info level and the desire to keep it more than 7 days, Datadog was >30k a month.”
Hacker News, Dec 2020
Managed alternatives
At 3,000 GB log ingest / month, 50 monitored hosts. Adjust usage and requirements.
Datadog: $102,600/yr estimated.
- ClickStack (ClickHouse Cloud): $1,080/yr estimated · $101,520/yr bill differenceEstimated ratesVendor ingest-cost claim, not a per-GB list price. Query compute is extra; the managed service is in beta.
- Axiom: $3,252/yr estimated · $99,348/yr bill differenceModeled ratesAssumes 10× log compression and 30 days of retention. Query compute overages are excluded.
- Elastic Observability: $3,924/yr estimated · $98,676/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Better Stack: $8,280/yr estimated · $94,320/yr bill differencePublished rates
- New Relic: $14,040/yr estimated · $88,560/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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