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Grafana Cloud pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Grafana Cloud (grafana.com) is a monitoring tool. Free tier with monthly usage allowances; Pro is a $19/mo platform fee plus usage (per series, per GB, per host hour, per session, per active user).. 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.

What Grafana Cloud costs

  • 50k errors: free (No standalone error tracker; exceptions are captured by Application Observability (per host) and Frontend Observability (per session). Free tier covers 2 hosts (1,488 of 2,232 host hours), 0.5 GB of trace data, 3 users, 14-day retention.)
  • APM, 2 hosts: free (Free tier: 2 hosts x 744 h = 1,488 host hours (2,232 included), 10 GB traces (50 GB included), 14-day retention, 3 users. On Pro it would be $19 fee, hosts within included usage.)
  • 50 GB logs: free (Free tier includes exactly 50 GB logs ingested/mo with 14-day retention and 3 active users. Above that, Pro is $0.05 process + $0.40 write + $0.10 retain per GB.)

Plan compared: Free. 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.

Grafana Cloud price hikes

No price hikes on record for Grafana Cloud.

Alternatives to Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud is the cheapest monitoring tool we track at 50,000 errors a month. The others:

Grafana Cloud alternatives: 4 monitoring tools compared, at every size.

Every change we logged

  • Apr 2026 · Price cut: Kubernetes Monitoring host hour cut from $0.015 to $0.01 and container hour from $0.001 to $0.0007; Frontend Observability cut from $0.90 to $0.75 per 1k sessions.
  • Feb 2026 · Price cut: Application Observability fell from $0.04 to $0.025 per host hour ($18/host).
  • Feb 2026 · Repriced: Logs, traces and profiles moved from a single $0.50/GB ingest rate to $0.05/GB process + $0.40/GB write + $0.10/GB retain; Grafana does not state how the stages combine, so the net effect (possibly $0.55/GB) is unclear.

Sources

Pricing page: grafana.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from grafana.com/pricing (Oct 2026) and PricingSaaS change log. Grafana has no dedicated issue-triage error tracker, so errors is priced via Application/Frontend Observability on the free tier; no sourced price increase found.