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 changesManaged Platform OTLP added at $0.50/GB of ingested spans/month; enables OTLP export from managed partners (Vercel, Cloudflare, Mulesoft) without additional infrastructure.
AI Credits product added to Datadog pricing page, replacing Bits AI SRE Investigations. New plan: $500/500 credits/month (annually) or $1.30/credit on-demand, bundling Bits Chat, Bits Investigation, Bits Code, and Bits Agent Builder.
Managed Platform OTLP added to Datadog pricing at $0.50/GB ingested spans/month, enabling OTLP export from Vercel, Cloudflare, Mulesoft, and other managed partners directly into Datadog.
Managed Platform OTLP added as new pricing product at $0.50/GB of ingested spans/month. Enables OTLP export from Vercel, Cloudflare, Mulesoft and other managed partners into Datadog.
New AI Credits product launched at $500/500 credits/month ($1.30/credit on-demand), bundling Bits Chat, Bits Investigation, Bits Code, and Bits Agent Builder into a unified credit-based AI model.
Two new pricing products added to Datadog pricing page: AI Credits ($500/500 credits/month annual, $1.30/credit on-demand) and Managed Platform OTLP ($0.50/GB ingested spans/month).
LLM Observability product added with Free ($0/month, 40K LLM spans) and Pro ($160/month annual, 100K LLM spans) tiers; additional spans at $3.50 per 10K.
Custom Metrics overage pricing language changed: specific rate '$1 per 100' removed from Infrastructure section callout and FAQ, replaced with 'billed based on usage' without a stated rate.
Database Monitoring total visibility expanded: MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Supabase added to supported database list (was: Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle only).
DevSecOps Enterprise Workload Protection scope reduced: AWS Fargate ECS/EKS removed from supported environments list, leaving only Linux, Windows Kubernetes, and Docker.
DevSecOps Enterprise Workload Protection scope narrowed: AWS Fargate ECS/EKS removed from list of supported platforms. Now covers Linux, Windows Kubernetes, and Docker only.
New Serverless Applications block added to Data Streams Monitoring: AWS Fargate Workload Protection at $2.9 per active application instance ($4.40 on-demand).
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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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| Company | Entry price | Last change |
|---|---|---|
N New Relic | $49 /core user/mo + usage | Jun 23, 2026 |
D Dynatrace | $29 per host/month | Oct 12, 2026 |
E Elastic | $99 /mo | Sep 14, 2026 |
S Splunk | $5 /user/mo, billed annually | Jul 20, 2026 |
S Sumologic | $3.14 per TB scanned | Oct 19, 2026 |
G Grafana | $19 /mo + usage | Aug 17, 2026 |
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.