Grafana Splits Log Pricing Into Three Stages, Cuts Kubernetes Costs 33%
What happened
Between the Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026 captures of Grafana's pricing page, Pulse recorded 3 changes: 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; Logs, Traces, and Profiles pricing model changed from a single $0.50/GB ingested rate to three-component pricing: $0.05 Process + $0.40 Write + $0.10 Retain per GB, enabling customers to optimize costs per stage; 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). Pulse files it as a pricing change (positioning, packaging change, price decrease) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 9, 2026) lists Pro at $19.
This quarterly roll-up includes the change Pulse first recorded in a shorter period: "Grafana splits observability pricing into Process/Write/Retain model" (week of Feb 16, 2026, saved Feb 23, 2026). It is the same change, not a new one. Before that, Grafana's previous recorded change was "Grafana Removes Advanced Tier, Restructures Pricing to Enhance Clarity and Decrease Pro Tier Metrics Costs by 18.75%" (Q3 2025). Grafana has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window New Relic, Dynatrace, Datadog, Elastic and Sumologic also changed their Data & Analytics pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Reworded—Positioning
BeforeBuilt for scale. Priced for reality
AfterSend more, charge more is broken. We are changing it
- ChangedProfilesPackaging
Beforea single $0.50/GB ingested rate
Afterthree-component pricing
- −33%—Price$0.015/host hour$0.01/host hour
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Positioning | Built for scale. Priced for reality | Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it | Reworded |
| Profiles | Packaging | a single $0.50/GB ingested rate | three-component pricing | Changed |
| — | Price | $0.015/host hour | $0.01/host hour | −33% |
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 Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where price reads $0.015/host hour and then $0.01/host hour.
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Grafana, the last 90 days
Full history- Jun 8, 2026PackagingGrafana shifts AI billing to tokens, adds $2/1M overage pricing
- May 4, 2026PackagingGrafana boosts free Assistant AI quota 40x to 200 messages per month
- Apr 13, 2026PackagingGrafana rewords Pro plan host hour limits as included allocations
- Apr 2, 2026Price decreaseGrafana Splits Log Pricing Into Three Stages, Cuts Kubernetes Costs 33% This change
- Feb 23, 2026PackagingGrafana splits observability pricing into Process/Write/Retain model
Across Data & Analytics in the same window
All Data & Analytics changes- New RelicApr 3New Relic Expands Integration Marketplace to Over 780 Connections
- DynatraceApr 3Dynatrace rebrands Davis AI as Dynatrace Intelligence, overhauls pricing page
- DatadogApr 3Datadog: Governance Console added to Synthetic Testing Enterprise
- ElasticJan 21Elastic Introduces AI Assistant for Generative AI in Enterprise Plan, Enhancing Observability Features
- SumologicJan 12Sumologic Shifts Pricing Metric from TB to GB Scanned, Enhancing Granularity by 1000x
Questions about this change
Did Grafana raise prices in March 2026?
No — prices went down. Between Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026 Grafana's pricing page showed 1 price cut: $0.015/host hour → $0.01/host hour (−33%).
What changed on Grafana's pricing page between Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026?
Positioning: Built for scale. Priced for reality → Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it, reworded; Profiles packaging: a single $0.50/GB ingested rate → three-component pricing, changed; price: $0.015/host hour → $0.01/host hour (−33%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Grafana change its pricing?
This quarterly roll-up includes the change Pulse first recorded in the week of Feb 16, 2026 (saved Feb 23, 2026), not a new one; Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Grafana in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Grafana Removes Advanced Tier, Restructures Pricing to Enhance Clarity and Decrease Pro Tier Metrics Costs by 18.75%" in Q3 2025; Grafana has been tracked since 2023-11-14.