Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for developers, IT operations, and business users, providing observability across applications, infrastructure, and logs.
Pricing Change History
130 changesCloud SIEM security data retention reduced from 15 months to 12 months; applies to analysis window, threat hunt/investigation scope, and indexed signal storage.
Two new product categories added to the pricing page: "Datadog Disaster Recovery" (cross-region observability failover, contact sales for pricing) and "Managed Platform OTLP" (managed OTLP ingestion/integration)
Quarterly roll-up · includes Jun 15 weekly, Jun 8 weekly, Apr 6 weekly
Azure App Services (PaaS) support and its two FAQ entries removed from APM; new Edge Device support added (POS systems, kiosks, industrial/entertainment devices) at reduced per-device pricing with lower ingest/retention allotments.
Quarterly roll-up · includes Jun 15 weekly, Jun 8 weekly
New $1.50/container/month prepaid rate added for DevSecOps Containers (previously a flat $1/container/month for all prepaid containers). Custom metrics overage FAQ dropped the specific $1 per 100 custom metrics/month rate for generic usage-based wording.
Quarterly roll-up · includes May 4 weekly
Four new product categories added to the pricing page navigation: AI Credits, Agent Observability, Datadog Disaster Recovery, and Managed Platform OTLP.
Serverless Applications: AWS Fargate line item added to the Data Streams Monitoring page at $2.90 per active application instance ($4.40 on-demand)
Quarterly roll-up · includes May 4 weekly
Infrastructure pricing changed: custom-metrics overage price ($1/100) hidden from summary/FAQ; Azure App Service no longer counts as a host; new $1.50/container/mo DevSecOps Containers tier added.
Quarterly roll-up · includes May 4 weekly
Archive storage feature updated: logs stored in your chosen archive can now be searched directly via new Archive Search, replacing the prior 'rehydratable format' description.
Quarterly roll-up · includes Jun 8 weekly, May 4 weekly
AWS Fargate add-on removed from APM pricing table. Previously listed at $2.60/task (billed annually) or $3.70 on-demand, with 10GB span ingestion and 65K span retention included.
Datadog renamed its LLM Observability product to Agent Observability. All pricing ($0 Free, $160/mo Pro), plans, and features remain unchanged — only the product name changed.
Datadog Disaster Recovery added as a new product offering with custom quote pricing, providing automated failover of telemetry pipelines to a secondary Datadog site during cloud region outages.
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Captured| Plan | Type | Price |
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| Infrastructure Free | Plan | Free |
| Infrastructure Pro | Plan | $15 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Infrastructure DevSecOps Pro | Plan | $22 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Infrastructure Enterprise | Plan | $23 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Infrastructure DevSecOps Enterprise | Plan | $34 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Observability Pipelines | Add-on | $0.1 /mobilled annually |
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| Sensitive Data Scanner - Detect | Add-on | $0.03 /mobilled annually |
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| Sensitive Data Scanner - Detect & Obfuscate | Add-on | $0.3 /mobilled annually |
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| Audit Trail | Add-on | Contact |
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| Data Streams Monitoring | Add-on | $15 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Universal Service Monitoring | Add-on | $9 /mobilled annually |
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| Experiments | Add-on | $450 /mobilled annually |
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| Archive Search | Add-on | $0.05 /mobilled annually |
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| Data Observability: Jobs Monitoring - Clusters | Add-on | $0.05 /mobilled annually |
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| Data Observability: Jobs Monitoring - Orchestrators | Add-on | $0.1 /mobilled annually |
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| Code Security Bundle | Add-on | $40 /committer/mobilled annually |
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| Code Security - Runtime SCA | Add-on | $10 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Code Security - Runtime Code Analysis (IAST) | Add-on | $20 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Code Security - Secret Scanning | Add-on | $15 /committer/mobilled annually |
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| Code Security - IaC Security | Add-on | $15 /committer/mobilled annually |
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| Code Security - Software Composition Analysis (Static SCA) | Add-on | $25 /committer/mobilled annually |
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| Data Observability: Jobs Monitoring - Serverless | Add-on | $2.5 /mobilled annually |
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| Code Security - Static Analysis (SAST) | Add-on | $25 /committer/mobilled annually |
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| Data Observability: Quality Monitoring | Add-on | $16 /monitored table/mobilled annually |
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| Error Tracking | Add-on | $25 /mobilled annually |
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| Real User Monitoring - RUM Measure | Add-on | $0.15 /mobilled annually |
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| Real User Monitoring - RUM Investigate | Add-on | $3 /mobilled annually |
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| Session Replay | Add-on | $2.5 /mobilled annually |
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| Product Analytics | Add-on | $0.8 /mobilled annually |
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| Network Monitoring - Cloud Network | Add-on | $5 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Cloud Cost Management Pro | Add-on | $5 /mobilled annually |
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| Cloud Cost Management Enterprise | Add-on | $10 /mobilled annually |
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| App and API Protection | Add-on | $31 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Application Performance Monitoring (APM) | Add-on | $31 /host/mobilled annually |
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| APM Pro | Add-on | $35 /host/mobilled annually |
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| APM Enterprise | Add-on | $40 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Code Coverage | Add-on | $8 /committer/mobilled annually |
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| Log Management - Ingest | Add-on | $0.1 /mobilled annually |
| AI Credits | Add-on | $500 /mobilled annually |
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| LLM Observability Free | Add-on | Free |
| Synthetic Testing - API Testing | Add-on | $5 /mobilled annually |
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| Log Management - Standard Indexing | Add-on | $1.7 /mobilled annually |
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| Log Management - Flex Logs Starter | Add-on | $0.6 /mobilled annually |
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| Feature Flags | Add-on | $55 /mobilled annually |
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| LLM Observability Pro | Add-on | $160 /mobilled annually |
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| Test Optimization | Add-on | $20 /committer/mobilled annually |
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| Kubernetes Autoscaling | Add-on | $3 /mobilled annually |
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| Workload Protection | Add-on | $15 /host/mobilled annually |
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| CI Pipeline Visibility | Add-on | $8 /committer/mobilled annually |
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| Synthetic Testing - Browser Testing | Add-on | $12 /mobilled annually |
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| Storage Management | Add-on | $0.35 /mobilled annually |
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| Edge Device Monitoring | Add-on | $5 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Managed Platform OTLP | Add-on | $0.5 per GB of ingested spans |
| Synthetic Testing - Mobile App Testing | Add-on | $50 /mobilled annually |
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| Cloud SIEM | Add-on | $5 /mobilled annually |
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| Cloud Security Management Pro (CSM Pro) | Add-on | $10 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Cloud Security Management Enterprise (CSM Enterprise) | Add-on | $25 /host/mobilled annually |
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| Database Monitoring | Add-on | $70 /database host/mobilled annually |
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| Cloud Cost Management Free (Datadog Cost Visibility) | Add-on | Free |
| Continuous Testing (Parallelization) | Add-on | $79 /mobilled annually |
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| App Builder | Add-on | $35 /published app/mobilled annually |
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| Incident Response - On-Call | Add-on | $20 /seat/mobilled annually |
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| Incident Response - Incident Management | Add-on | $30 /seat/mobilled annually |
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| Incident Response Bundle | Add-on | $40 /seat/mobilled annually |
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| Event Management | Add-on | $0.1 /mobilled annually |
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| Network Monitoring - Network Device | Add-on | $7 /device/mobilled annually |
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| Workflow Automation | Add-on | $10 /mobilled annually |
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Datadog pricing FAQ
- How much does Datadog cost?
- Datadog pricing starts at $15/host/mo on Infrastructure Pro, billed annually. Datadog lists 5 plans on its pricing page; the Infrastructure Free plan is free.
- Does Datadog have a free plan?
- Yes. Datadog's Infrastructure Free plan is free; paid plans start at $15/host/mo on Infrastructure Pro, billed annually.
- What pricing model does Datadog use?
- Datadog uses subscription + usage pricing across 5 plans, with a free tier.
- When did Datadog last change its pricing?
- Oct 28, 2026: Datadog drops free Infrastructure plan, adds contact-sales Basic tier.
- How often has Datadog changed its pricing?
- Pulse has recorded 130 pricing changes for Datadog since it started tracking on Nov 14, 2023; the pricing page was last captured on Oct 28, 2026.






