Datadog drops free Infrastructure plan, adds contact-sales Basic tier
What happened
Between the Oct 27, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Infrastructure Free plan (up to 5 hosts, $0) replaced by a Basic tier priced via Contact sales, for noncritical workloads; Basic hosts can mix with Pro/Enterprise; Infrastructure Pro card now lists container monitoring and OpenTelemetry support. In detail: Infrastructure: new Basic host tier (Contact sales for pricing; core system metrics, dashboards, 15-month retention, for noncritical workloads, mixable with Pro/Enterprise) replaces the $0 Free card. Free tier remains per new FAQ as up to 5 Basic hosts with 1-day retention; Infrastructure Pro card bullets now highlight Container monitoring and OpenTelemetry support (dashboards/15-month retention bullets moved to the new Basic card); container monitoring is not available for Basic hosts. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new plan, positioning) with an upward direction. The current page lists Infrastructure Pro at $15, Infrastructure DevSecOps Pro at $22, Infrastructure Enterprise at $23, Infrastructure DevSecOps Enterprise at $34 and Observability Pipelines at $0.1.
It lands 16 days after Datadog's previous change, "Datadog Cloud SIEM extends security signal retention to 15 months at no cost" (Oct 12, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Datadog bundles on-prem Sensitive Data Scanner at no e" (Oct 12, 2026), "Datadog Cloud Security Management: makes Workflow Automation free and unlimited" (Oct 5, 2026) and "Datadog Cloud SIEM makes workflows free when triggered by security findings" (Oct 5, 2026). Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Sumologic, Dynatrace, Elastic and Grafana also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · PlanNew planNot listed5
- Infrastructure Pro · PositioningPositioning
Infrastructure Pro card bullets now highlight Container monitoring and OpenTelemetry support (dashboards/15-month retention bullets moved to the new Basic card); container monitoring is not available for Basic hosts.
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Plan | Not listed | 5 | New plan |
| Infrastructure Pro | Positioning | Infrastructure Pro card bullets now highlight Container monitoring and OpenTelemetry support (dashboards/15-month retention bullets moved to the new Basic card); container monitoring is not available for Basic hosts. | Positioning | |
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 Oct 27, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where "Not listed" becomes "5".
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 28, 2026packagingDatadog drops free Infrastructure plan, adds contact-sales Basic tier · this change
- Oct 12, 2026improvedDatadog Cloud SIEM extends security signal retention to 15 months at no cost
- Oct 12, 2026packagingDatadog bundles on-prem Sensitive Data Scanner at no e...
- Oct 5, 2026improvedDatadog Cloud Security Management: makes Workflow Automation free and unlimited
- Oct 5, 2026improvedDatadog Cloud SIEM makes workflows free when triggered by security findings
- Oct 5, 2026packagingDatadog unveils Kafka Console pricing from $100/broker host
- Oct 5, 2026improvedDatadog: DevSecOps Workflows now free when triggered by security findings
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- SumologicOct 19Sumologic adds DojoAI Credits add-on for pooled monthly AI prompt capacity
- DynatraceOct 12Dynatrace launches Agentic Operations at $0.10 per AI unit, AI Exploration free
- ElasticSep 14Elastic splits out new Elasticsearch Vector Database product tile
- GrafanaAug 17Grafana: Logs Query price hidden from Pro plan card ($0.003/GB)
Questions about this change
Did Datadog raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 27, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new plan, positioning.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Oct 27, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026?
Plan: Not listed → 5; Infrastructure Pro card bullets now highlight Container monitoring and OpenTelemetry support (dashboards/15-month retention bullets moved to the new Basic card); container monitoring is not available for Basic hosts. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 27, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Datadog change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 16 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog Cloud SIEM extends security signal retention to 15 months at no cost" on Oct 12, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.