Grafana Removes Advanced Tier, Restructures Pricing to Enhance Clarity and Decrease Pro Tier Metrics Costs by 18.75%
What happened
Between the Jul 6, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025 captures of Grafana's pricing page, Pulse recorded 6 changes: Advanced tier ($299/month) removed from pricing structure; Pricing page restructured from product-agnostic tiers (Free/Pro/Advanced/Enterprise) to tier-per-product model with consistent Free/Pro/Enterprise structure across all products; Pro tier platform fee structure clarified: explicit $19/month base fee disclosed (previously showed 'From' without specific platform fee amount); Enterprise tier minimum annual commit disclosed at $25,000/year (previously labeled 'Contract' with no pricing disclosed); Enterprise tier metrics pricing disclosed as 'as low as $3 per 1k series' with volume discounts (previously same $8/1k pricing as Pro); Pro tier metrics pricing decreased from $8 per 1k series to $6.50 per 1k series (18.75% decrease). Pulse files it as a pricing change (plan removed, package change, price revealed, price decrease) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 17, 2026) lists Pro at $19.
Grafana's previous recorded change was "Grafana Introduces New Synthetics Pricing: $5 for 10k API Tests and $50 for 10k Browser Tests, Enhancing Cost Clarity" (Q2 2025). 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.
- Advanced · PlanPlan removed
Advanced tier ($299/month) removed from pricing structure
- Pro, Enterprise · PackagingPackage change
Pricing page restructured from product-agnostic tiers (Free/Pro/Advanced/Enterprise) to tier-per-product model with consistent Free/Pro/Enterprise structure across all products
- Pro · Price visibilityRevealedPrice hiddenPrice listed
- Enterprise · Price visibilityRevealedPrice hiddenPrice listed
- Enterprise, Pro · Price visibilityRevealedPrice hiddenPrice listed
- Pro · PriceChanged$8 per 1k series$6.50 per 1k series
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced | Plan | Advanced tier ($299/month) removed from pricing structure | Plan removed | |
| Pro, Enterprise | Packaging | Pricing page restructured from product-agnostic tiers (Free/Pro/Advanced/Enterprise) to tier-per-product model with consistent Free/Pro/Enterprise structure across all products | Package change | |
| Pro | Price visibility | Price hidden | Price listed | Revealed |
| Enterprise | Price visibility | Price hidden | Price listed | Revealed |
| Enterprise, Pro | Price visibility | Price hidden | Price listed | Revealed |
| Pro | Price | $8 per 1k series | $6.50 per 1k series | Changed |
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 Jul 6, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where "$8 per 1k series" becomes "$6.50 per 1k series".
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Grafana, the last 90 days
Full history- Apr 13, 2026packagingGrafana rewords Pro plan host hour limits as included allocations
- 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% · this change
- Q2 2025improvedGrafana Introduces New Synthetics Pricing: $5 for 10k API Tests and $50 for 10k Browser Tests, Enhancing Cost Clarity
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 October 2025?
No — prices went down. Between Jul 6, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025 Grafana's pricing page showed 1 price cut: Pro: $8 per 1k series → $6.50 per 1k series (changed).
What changed on Grafana's pricing page between Jul 6, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025?
Advanced tier ($299/month) removed from pricing structure; Pricing page restructured from product-agnostic tiers (Free/Pro/Advanced/Enterprise) to tier-per-product model with consistent Free/Pro/Enterprise structure across all products; Pro price visibility: Price hidden → Price listed, revealed; Enterprise price visibility: Price hidden → Price listed, revealed; Enterprise, Pro price visibility: Price hidden → Price listed, revealed; Pro price: $8 per 1k series → $6.50 per 1k series, changed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jul 6, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Grafana change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Grafana in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Grafana Introduces New Synthetics Pricing: $5 for 10k API Tests and $50 for 10k Browser Tests, Enhancing Cost Clarity" in Q2 2025; Grafana has been tracked since 2023-11-14.