Grafana Introduces New Synthetics Pricing: $5 for 10k API Tests and $50 for 10k Browser Tests, Enhancing Cost Clarity
What happened
Between the Apr 1, 2025 and Jul 6, 2025 captures of Grafana's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: 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. Pulse files it as a packaging change (threshold added, metric change) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 17, 2026) lists Pro at $19.
Grafana's previous recorded change was "Grafana Introduces Minimum Fee of $19/month for Pro Pay As You Go Plan, Marking Significant Pricing Change" (Q3 2024). Before that Pulse recorded "Grafana Introduces Synthetics Monitoring to Free Forever Plan with 100k Monthly Test Executions Included" (Q2 2024), "Grafana Introduces Frontend Observability with $0.90 per 1k Sessions and New Tier Limits for Enhanced User Experience" (Q1 2024) and "Grafana Transforms Pro Plan to Pure Pay-As-You-Go Model Starting at $0, Renames All Plans" (Dec 2023). Grafana has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Elastic, Dynatrace and Datadog also changed their Data & Analytics pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Pro · LimitAdded
BeforeNo Browser test execution limits
AfterBrowser test execution limits
- Synthetics · Pricing modelMetric change
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
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | Limit | No Browser test execution limits | Browser test execution limits | Added |
| Synthetics | Pricing model | — | $5 | Metric change |
Values as written on Grafana'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 Grafana's pricing page (grafana.com) from Apr 1, 2025 and Jul 6, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where Browser test execution limits now appears.
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Grafana, pricing history
Full history- Apr 3, 2026decreaseGrafana Splits Log Pricing Into Three Stages, Cuts Kubernetes Costs 33%
- Feb 23, 2026decreaseGrafana splits observability pricing into Process/Write/Retain model
- Q3 2025packagingGrafana Removes Advanced Tier, Restructures Pricing to Enhance Clarity and Decrease Pro Tier Metrics Costs by 18.75%
- Q2 2025improvedGrafana Introduces New Synthetics Pricing: $5 for 10k API Tests and $50 for 10k Browser Tests, Enhancing Cost Clarity · this change
- Q3 2024improvedGrafana Introduces Minimum Fee of $19/month for Pro Pay As You Go Plan, Marking Significant Pricing Change
- Q2 2024improvedGrafana Introduces Synthetics Monitoring to Free Forever Plan with 100k Monthly Test Executions Included
- Q1 2024improvedGrafana Introduces Frontend Observability with $0.90 per 1k Sessions and New Tier Limits for Enhanced User Experience
- Dec 2023packagingGrafana Transforms Pro Plan to Pure Pay-As-You-Go Model Starting at $0, Renames All Plans
Across Data & Analytics in the same window
All Data & Analytics changes- ElasticJan 11Elastic Introduces 99.95% Uptime SLA for Platinum and Enterprise Tiers in Comparison Table
- DynatraceJan 11Dynatrace Expands Services Flexpoints Pricing with Daily Rates for Lead Consultant and Architect Services
- DatadogJan 11Datadog Introduces AWS Fargate Serverless Application Monitoring at $3 per Active Instance, Enhancing Serverless Performance Insights
Questions about this change
Did Grafana raise prices in July 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Apr 1, 2025 and Jul 6, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: threshold added, metric change.
What changed on Grafana's pricing page between Apr 1, 2025 and Jul 6, 2025?
Pro limit: No Browser test execution limits → Browser test execution limits, added; 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. Pulse compared the captures it took on Apr 1, 2025 and Jul 6, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Grafana change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Grafana in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Grafana Introduces Minimum Fee of $19/month for Pro Pay As You Go Plan, Marking Significant Pricing Change" in Q3 2024; Grafana has been tracked since 2023-11-14.