Datadog: Launched AI Credits, Disaster Recovery + 2 more changes
What happened
Between the Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded 3 changes: Added AI Credits as a new priced product, starting at $500 per 500 credits/month ($1.30/credit on-demand), metering Bits AI Chat/Investigation/Code/Agent Builder usage. Added Datadog Disaster Recovery (custom quote pricing) and Managed Platform OTLP (from $0.50/GB ingested spans/month) as new products. Removed AWS Fargate ECS/EKS support from DevSecOps Enterprise's Workload Protection feature list. In detail: Removed AWS Fargate ECS/EKS support from DevSecOps Enterprise's Workload Protection feature list (workload protection for Linux, Windows Kubernetes, and Docker remains); Added Datadog Disaster Recovery (custom quote pricing; automated failover of telemetry to a secondary Datadog site during cloud provider region outages) and Managed Platform OTLP (starting at $0.50/GB of ingested spans per month; OTLP export from managed partners like Vercel, Cloudflare, and Mulesoft) as new products; Added AI Credits as a new priced product: starting at $500 per 500 credits/month (billed annually), or $1.30/credit on-demand. Credits meter usage of Bits AI Chat, Bits Investigation, Bits Code, and Bits Agent Builder. Pulse files it as a packaging change (feature removed, feature added, new plan) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 3, 2026) lists Software Composition Analysis (Runtime SCA) at $10, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Security at $15, Secret Scanning at $15, Runtime Code Analysis (IAST) at $20 and Static Code Analysis (SAST) at $25.
It lands 60 days after Datadog's previous change, "Datadog Software Composition Analysis drops AWS Fargate ECS/EKS from DevSecOps " (May 4, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Datadog Software Composition Analysis: Governance Console added to Infrastructure Enterprise" (Apr 11, 2026). Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Grafana, Dynatrace and New Relic also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · FeatureRemoved
BeforeAWS Fargate ECS/EKS support
AfterNo AWS Fargate ECS/EKS support
- — · FeatureAdded
BeforeNo Datadog Disaster Recovery
AfterDatadog Disaster Recovery
- — · PlanAddedNo AI CreditsAI Credits
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Feature | AWS Fargate ECS/EKS support | No AWS Fargate ECS/EKS support | Removed |
| — | Feature | No Datadog Disaster Recovery | Datadog Disaster Recovery | Added |
| — | Plan | No AI Credits | AI Credits | 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 Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where the AWS Fargate ECS/EKS support no longer appears.
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Aug 3, 2026packagingDatadog Software Composition Analysis SCA: CoScreen collaboration feature removed from all plans
- Jul 3, 2026improvedDatadog: Launched AI Credits, Disaster Recovery + 2 more changes · this change
- May 4, 2026improvedDatadog Software Composition Analysis drops AWS Fargate ECS/EKS from DevSecOps ...
- Apr 11, 2026improvedDatadog Software Composition Analysis: Governance Console added to Infrastructure Enterprise
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 Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: feature removed, feature added, new plan.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026?
Feature: AWS Fargate ECS/EKS support → No AWS Fargate ECS/EKS support, removed; feature: No Datadog Disaster Recovery → Datadog Disaster Recovery, added; plan: No AI Credits → AI Credits, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Datadog change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 2 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog Software Composition Analysis drops AWS Fargate ECS/EKS from DevSecOps ..." on May 4, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.