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Grafana

Grafana is an open-source analytics and monitoring tool that integrates with various data sources to visualize metrics in dashboards for better data-driven decision-making.

Entry price

$19

Pro · /mo + usage

Plans tracked

no add-ons

Pricing changes

Latest Wk 34 '26

Pricing model

Subscription + usage

Free tier available

Pricing Change History

13 changes

202613 changes

Aug 17, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Grafana: Logs Query price hidden from Pro plan card ($0.003/GB)

Logs Pro plan pricing removed the $0.003/GB Query rate from its main pricing card; Process, Write, and Retain per-GB rates remain unchanged

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Aug 10, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Grafana Cloud Logs: new Query billing dimension added ($0.003/GB)

Grafana Cloud Logs (Pro) added Query as a new billed dimension at $0.003/GB, alongside existing Process ($0.050/GB), Write ($0.400/GB), and Retain ($0.100/GB) rates.

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Jul 3, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Grafana: New Database Observability product + Assistant moves to token-based pricing

New 'Database Observability' product added to the pricing page, with its own Free (2,232 host hours), Pro ($0.07/host hour, ~$51/host), and Enterprise ($25,000/yr min commit) tiers. Grafana Assistant's Free and Pro tier usage allowance changed from a message-based quota to a token-based quota: Free tier 5 msgs/user/mo -> 40M tokens/user/mo, Pro tier 2,000 msgs/user/mo -> 40M tokens/user/mo, plus a new 25M tokens/month service-account allowance.

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Jun 8, 2026

Packaging

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Grafana shifts AI billing to tokens, adds $2/1M overage pricing

Grafana Assistant billing switched from messages to tokens. Pro includes 40M tokens/user/mo (was 2,000 messages); Free gets 40M tokens + 25M service account tokens/mo; new $2/1M tokens overage pricing.

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May 4, 2026

Improvement

Weekly

Grafana boosts free Assistant AI quota 40x to 200 messages per month

Grafana Assistant free tier message allowance increased from 5 to 200 messages per user per month, a 40x increase in the free AI usage quota.

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Apr 13, 2026

Packaging

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Grafana rewords Pro plan host hour limits as included allocations

Pro plan host hour allocations reworded from 'Limited to' to 'Includes' across Kubernetes Monitoring, Application Observability, and Database Observability sections. Quantities unchanged.

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Apr 3, 2026

Price decrease

Quarterly

Grafana Splits Log Pricing Into Three Stages, Cuts Kubernetes Costs 33%

Kubernetes Monitoring host hour rate decreased 33% ($0.015→$0.01/host hour, now $7.20/host) and container hour rate decreased 30% ($0.001→$0.0007/container hour, now $0.50/container). Application Observability host hour decreased 37.5% ($0.04→$0.025/host hour, now $18/host). Frontend Observability sessions decreased 17% ($0.90→$0.75/1k sessions). Pricing page hero tagline changed from 'Built for scale. Priced for reality.' to 'Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it.' A new 'Pricing Philosophy' section was added highlighting Adaptive, Composable, and Open principles.

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Feb 23, 2026

Price decrease

Weekly

Grafana splits observability pricing into Process/Write/Retain model

Application Observability host hour pricing decreased from $0.04 to $0.025 per host hour ($18/host) Price list table updated to reflect monthly unit rates including new Process/Write/Retain breakdown for Logs, Traces, Profiles

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Jan 10, 2026

Packaging

Quarterly

Grafana Removes Advanced Tier, Restructures Pricing to Enhance Clarity and Decrease Pro Tier Metrics Costs by 18.75%

Pro tier platform fee structure clarified: explicit $19/month base fee disclosed (previously showed 'From' without specific platform fee amount) Enterprise tier metrics pricing disclosed as 'as low as $3 per 1k series' with volume discounts (previously same $8/1k pricing as Pro)

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Jan 10, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Grafana Introduces New Synthetics Pricing: $5 for 10k API Tests and $50 for 10k Browser Tests, Enhancing Cost Clarity

Browser test execution limits added to Synthetics included usage: Free/Pro tiers include 10k browser test executions per month, Advanced tier includes 20k browser test executions per month Synthetics pricing explicitly split into two separate metrics: Synthetics (API) at $5 per 10k test executions and Synthetics (Browser) at $50 per 10k test executions

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Jan 10, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Grafana Introduces Minimum Fee of $19/month for Pro Pay As You Go Plan, Marking Significant Pricing Change

Kubernetes Monitoring added as a new feature across all tiers (Free, Pro, Advanced) Kubernetes Monitoring limits added to Free tier: 2.2k host hours / 37k container hours per month

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Jan 10, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Grafana Introduces Synthetics Monitoring to Free Forever Plan with 100k Monthly Test Executions Included

Synthetics monitoring added to Free Forever plan with 100k test executions included monthly Application Observability added to Free Forever plan with 2232 host hours included monthly

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Jan 10, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Grafana Introduces Frontend Observability with $0.90 per 1k Sessions and New Tier Limits for Enhanced User Experience

Advanced tier: 100k frontend sessions included in base usage Pro tier: 50k frontend sessions included in base usage

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