Datadog shifts AI billing from investigations to flexible credits
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/month) replaced by AI Credits ($500/500 credits/month, $1.30/credit on-demand) with expanded capabilities (Bits Chat, Bits Code, Bits Agent Builder). Managed Platform OTLP added at $0.50/GB ingested spans. Pulse files it as a packaging change (package change) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 28, 2026) 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 the same day as Datadog's previous change, "Datadog adds AI Credits at $500/mo" (Jun 8, 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.
- AI Credits, Managed Platform OTLP · PackagingAddedNo Managed Platform OTLPManaged Platform OTLP
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Credits, Managed Platform OTLP | 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- Jun 19, 2026packagingDatadog drops AWS Fargate add-on pricing
- Jun 15, 2026packagingDatadog LLM Observability rebrands to Agent Observability
- Jun 19, 2026packagingDatadog adds Disaster Recovery with custom pricing
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog shifts AI billing from investigations to flexible credits · this change
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog adds AI Credits at $500/mo
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog shifts AI billing to credits model
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog adds OTLP ingestion at $0.50/GB
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog launches AI Credits at $500/mo
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog Continuous Testing adds AI Credits at $500/mo, drops Bits AI
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDatadog adds OTLP ingestion at $0.50/GB
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?
AI Credits, Managed Platform OTLP 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 47 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog adds AI Credits at $500/mo" on Jun 8, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.