Datadog replaces free tier with contact-sales Basic plan, 15-month retention
What happened
Between the Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026 captures of Datadog's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Free tier ($0, up to 5 hosts, 1-day retention) replaced by a Basic tier with contact-sales pricing, 15-month retention, no container monitoring; Basic hosts can mix with Pro/Enterprise. Pulse files it as a packaging change (freemium change) with a neutral direction. The current page lists Infrastructure Pro at $15, Infrastructure DevSecOps Pro at $22, Infrastructure Enterprise at $23, Infrastructure DevSecOps Enterprise at $34 and Session Replay at $2.50.
It lands the same day as Datadog's previous change, "Datadog drops Confluent Cloud from Kafka Console support" (Nov 2, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Datadog drops free Infrastructure plan, adds contact-sales Basic tier" (Oct 28, 2026), "Datadog Cloud SIEM extends security signal retention to 15 months at no cost" (Oct 12, 2026) and "Datadog bundles on-prem Sensitive Data Scanner at no…" (Oct 12, 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.
- — · Free tierFreemium change
Free tier ($0, up to 5 hosts, 1-day retention) replaced by a Basic tier with contact-sales pricing, 15-month retention, no container monitoring; Basic hosts can mix with Pro/Enterprise.
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Free tier | — | 5 | Freemium change |
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 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page.
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Datadog, the last 90 days
Full history- Nov 2, 2026packagingDatadog replaces free tier with contact-sales Basic plan, 15-month retention · this change
- Nov 2, 2026packagingDatadog drops Confluent Cloud from Kafka Console support
- Oct 28, 2026packagingDatadog drops free Infrastructure plan, adds contact-sales Basic tier
- Oct 12, 2026packagingDatadog Cloud SIEM extends security signal retention to 15 months at no cost
- Oct 12, 2026packagingDatadog bundles on-prem Sensitive Data Scanner at no…
- Oct 5, 2026packagingDatadog Cloud Security Management: makes Workflow Automation free and unlimited
- Oct 5, 2026improvedDatadog Cloud SIEM makes workflows 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 November 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: freemium change.
What changed on Datadog's pricing page between Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026?
Free tier ($0, up to 5 hosts, 1-day retention) replaced by a Basic tier with contact-sales pricing, 15-month retention, no container monitoring; Basic hosts can mix with Pro/Enterprise. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Datadog change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 9 other pricing-page changes for Datadog in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Datadog drops Confluent Cloud from Kafka Console support" on Nov 2, 2026; Datadog has been tracked since 2023-11-14.