Datadog launches AI Credits at $500/mo
What happened
Between the Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: New Managed Platform OTLP product added at $0.50/GB ingested spans per month. Supports OTLP export from Vercel, Cloudflare, Mulesoft and other managed partners directly into Datadog; New AI Credits product added at $500/500 credits per month (billed annually) or $1.30/credit on-demand. Covers Bits Chat, Bits Investigation, Bits Code, and Bits Agent Builder. Replaces standalone Bits AI SRE Investigations product. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new plan) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 5, 2026) lists CSM Pro at $10 and CSM Enterprise at $25.
It lands 7 days after Datadog's previous change, "Datadog Cloud Security Management launches LLM Observability Free and Pro tiers" (Jun 1, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Datadog Cloud Security Management drops AWS Fargate from Enterprise Workload Pr" (May 4, 2026), "Datadog Cloud Security Management: Governance Console added to Cloud Security Management Enterprise" (Apr 4, 2026) and "Datadog Cloud Security Management Adds Edge Device Monitoring at $5/Host/Month" (Apr 1, 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.
- — · PlanAdded
BeforeNo Managed Platform OTLP product
AfterManaged Platform OTLP product
- — · PlanAddedNo AI Credits productAI Credits product
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Plan | No Managed Platform OTLP product | Managed Platform OTLP product | Added |
| — | Plan | No AI Credits product | AI Credits product | 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 product now appears.
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 5, 2026improvedDatadog Cloud Security Management Cloud Security Management: makes Workflow Automation free and unlimited
- Aug 3, 2026packagingDatadog Cloud Security Management CSM: CoScreen collaboration feature removed
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog launches AI Credits at $500/mo · this change
- Jun 1, 2026packagingDatadog Cloud Security Management launches LLM Observability Free and Pro tiers
- May 4, 2026improvedDatadog Cloud Security Management drops AWS Fargate from Enterprise Workload Pr...
- Apr 4, 2026improvedDatadog Cloud Security Management: Governance Console added to Cloud Security Management Enterprise
- Apr 1, 2026packagingDatadog Cloud Security Management Adds Edge Device Monitoring at $5/Host/Month
- Mar 10, 2026packagingDatadog Cloud Security Management Drops 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: new plan.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026?
Plan: No Managed Platform OTLP product → Managed Platform OTLP product, added; plan: No AI Credits product → AI Credits product, 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 5 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog Cloud Security Management launches LLM Observability Free and Pro tiers" on Jun 1, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.