Datadog shifts AI billing to credits model
What happened
Between the Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Bits AI SRE Investigations ($500/20 investigations) replaced by AI Credits ($500/500 credits/month) covering Bits Chat, Investigation, Code, and Agent Builder. Managed Platform OTLP added at $0.50/GB. Pulse files it as a packaging change (package change) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 3, 2026) lists App and API Protection at $31, Serverless Applications - AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Run, Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, Azure Function at $10 and Threat Management for AWS Fargate at $2.
It lands 35 days after Datadog's previous change, "Datadog Application Security Management drops AWS Fargate from supported platforms" (May 4, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Datadog Application Security Management: Governance Console added to Application Security Management Enterprise" (Apr 11, 2026), "Datadog Application Security Management Adds Edge Device Monitoring at $5/Host/Mo" (Apr 1, 2026) and "Datadog Application Security Management Drops $5 IoT Device Monitoring Add-On" (Mar 10, 2026). Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Grafana, New Relic and Dynatrace also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · PackagingAddedNo Managed Platform OTLPManaged Platform OTLP
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Packaging | No Managed Platform OTLP | Managed Platform OTLP | Added |
Values as written on Datadog's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Datadog's pricing page (datadoghq.com) from Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where Managed Platform OTLP now appears.
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Aug 3, 2026packagingDatadog Application Security Management ASM: CoScreen collaboration feature removed
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog shifts AI billing to credits model · this change
- May 4, 2026improvedDatadog Application Security Management drops AWS Fargate from supported platforms
- Apr 11, 2026improvedDatadog Application Security Management: Governance Console added to Application Security Management Enterprise
- Apr 1, 2026packagingDatadog Application Security Management Adds Edge Device Monitoring at $5/Host/Mo
- Mar 10, 2026packagingDatadog Application Security Management Drops $5 IoT Device Monitoring Add-On
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changesQuestions about this change
Did Datadog raise prices in June 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: package change.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026?
Packaging: No Managed Platform OTLP → Managed Platform OTLP, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Datadog change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 4 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog Application Security Management drops AWS Fargate from supported platforms" on May 4, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.