Grafana Cloud
Managed Grafana, Loki, Mimir and Tempo with a generous free tier and usage-based Pro plan; open-source stack can also be self-hosted.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- 50 GB logs, 10k metric series, 2,232 host hours per month (14-day retention).
- Open source
- Yes · self-hostable
- Website
- grafana.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Modeled rates
Pricing
Published rates converted using workload assumptions. Read the notes. Host cost uses Kubernetes Monitoring, not plain VM metric series. APM and the included host-hour deduction are excluded. How to read these estimates.
| Plan | Base fee / month | Log ingestion + retention / GB | Monitored host / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Pro | $19 | $0.5 | $7.2 |
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)
- 50
- Log ingestion + retention / GB
- $0
- Monitored host / month
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 50 log ingest / month (gb); ≤ 3 monitored hosts
Pro
- Base fee / month
- $19
- Included logs / month (GB)
- 50
- Log ingestion + retention / GB
- $0.5
- Monitored host / month
- $7.2
Pro is $19/month platform fee plus usage, with the free-tier allowances included. Logs are $0.50/GB ($0.05 ingest + $0.40 write + $0.10 retention) with 30-day retention. Host price uses Kubernetes Monitoring at $0.01/host-hour (~$7.20/host/month); Application Observability (APM) is $0.025/host-hour (~$18). Plain VM host metrics are instead billed as metric series ($6.50 per 1k series). The free 2,232 host hours (~3 hosts) also apply on Pro but aren't deducted here. EU stack regions are selectable on Free and Pro. Enterprise has a $25,000/yr minimum.
What companies report paying
What other customers have paid for Grafana Cloud, with sources. Their usage, features and discounts may differ from yours; these are not quotes.
- $100,533/yr · Vendr median annual contract value; range shown $33,944–$671,697; 100 purchases; covers all Grafana Labs products (Cloud and Enterprise)
“Median buyer pays $100,533 per year Based on data from 100 purchases.”
Vendr purchase data, Oct 2026
Managed alternatives
At 3,000 GB log ingest / month, 50 monitored hosts. Adjust usage and requirements.
Grafana Cloud: $22,248/yr estimated.
- ClickStack (ClickHouse Cloud): $1,080/yr estimated · $21,168/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 · $18,996/yr bill differenceModeled ratesAssumes 10× log compression and 30 days of retention. Query compute overages are excluded.
- Elastic Observability: $3,924/yr estimated · $18,324/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Better Stack: $8,280/yr estimated · $13,968/yr bill differencePublished rates
- New Relic: $14,040/yr estimated · $8,208/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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