OpenObserve Cloud
Managed OpenObserve, an AGPL logs/metrics/traces platform on object storage, billed per GB ingested and queried with 30-day retention included.
Ingestion costs $0.50/GB, including 30 days of logs and traces and 15 months of metrics. Queries add $0.01 per GB scanned; each extra 30 days of retention adds $0.02/GB. Frankfurt hosting has been available since March 2026. If you prefer to run it yourself, the AGPL-3.0 edition has no license fee, and the self-hosted Enterprise edition is free up to 50 GB/day.
- Headquarters
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- 14-day free trial, no credit card. Self-hosted Enterprise free up to 50 GB/day.
- Open source
- Yes 路 self-hostable
- Website
- openobserve.ai
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Log ingestion + retention / GB |
|---|
| $0.5 |
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.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included logs / month (GB)
- 0
- Log ingestion + retention / GB
- $0.5
- Monitored host / month
- $0
Cloud pay-as-you-go: $0.50/GB ingested (includes 30 days of retention for logs and traces, 15 months for metrics) plus $0.01/GB scanned by queries, which is excluded here. Extra retention $0.02/GB per additional 30 days. The pricing page also mentions a 30% discount for annual commitment. No per-host or per-seat fees; metrics are billed per GB ingested, so per_host_month is 0. The open-source edition (AGPL-3.0) is free to self-host, and the self-hosted Enterprise edition is free up to 50 GB/day ingest (custom pricing above): you pay for compute/storage only. EU-Central 1 (Frankfurt) cloud region launched March 2026. OpenObserve Inc., San Francisco. DPA at openobserve.ai/legal/dpa/.
Managed alternatives
At 3,000 GB log ingest / month, 50 monitored hosts. Adjust usage and requirements.
OpenObserve Cloud: $18,000/yr estimated.
- ClickStack (ClickHouse Cloud): $1,080/yr estimated 路 $16,920/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 路 $14,748/yr bill differenceModeled ratesAssumes 10脳 log compression and 30 days of retention. Query compute overages are excluded.
- Elastic Observability: $3,924/yr estimated 路 $14,076/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Better Stack: $8,280/yr estimated 路 $9,720/yr bill differencePublished rates
- New Relic: $14,040/yr estimated 路 $3,960/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鈥檇 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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