Datadog alternatives
At 50,000 errors a month, Datadog costs $30 a month. 3 monitoring tools cost less, from $0 (Better Stack). Ranked by price at the size you pick, with free plans, price hikes and how to switch.
Alternatives to Datadog at 50,000 errors a month, cheapest first
- Better Stack: free US-region rates; EU region is cheaper (Free plan (errors); pay-as-you-go Logs & Traces, US region (apm, logs)). Free plan: Free: 10 monitors, 1 status page, 100,000 exceptions, 3 GB logs and 3 GB traces kept 3 days; Team members free..
- Grafana Cloud: free Free tier covers all three scenarios (Free). Free plan: Free forever: 10k metric series, 50 GB each of logs/traces/profiles, 2,232 APM host hours, 50k frontend sessions, 3 users, 14-day retention.
- Sentry: $29/mo, $12 a year less than Datadog (Team). Free plan: Developer plan: 1 user, 5k errors, 5M spans, 50 replays, 5 GB logs per month.
- New Relic: $108/mo Data beyond 100 GB/mo: $0.40/GB (Standard (pay-as-you-go)). Free plan: Free: 100 GB/month ingest, 1 full platform user, unlimited basic users, 500 synthetic checks. Last price hike: Dec 2025.
Prices at every size
- Datadog: 50,000 errors a month $30/mo, tracing a 2-host app $84.16/mo, 50 GB of logs a month $107/mo (Month-to-month rates; annual ~17% cheaper)
- Better Stack: 50,000 errors a month free, tracing a 2-host app $1.85/mo, 50 GB of logs a month $11.05/mo (US-region rates; EU region is cheaper)
- Grafana Cloud: 50,000 errors a month free, tracing a 2-host app free, 50 GB of logs a month free (Free tier covers all three scenarios)
- Sentry: 50,000 errors a month $29/mo, tracing a 2-host app $37/mo, 50 GB of logs a month $51.50/mo
- New Relic: 50,000 errors a month $108/mo, tracing a 2-host app $208/mo, 50 GB of logs a month free (Data beyond 100 GB/mo: $0.40/GB)
Every price is for the same small SaaS app (2 hosts, 10 million requests and spans, 50,000 errors and 50 GB of logs a month, 3 developers) on the cheapest self-serve plan that fully covers that job, billed monthly, including overage and per-user fees. Free plans count when they cover the whole scenario and allow commercial use.
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