Grafana boosts free Assistant AI quota 40x to 200 messages per month
What happened
Between the Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026 captures of Grafana's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: 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. Pulse files it as a packaging change (limit increase) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 17, 2026) lists Pro at $19.
It lands 22 days after Grafana's previous change, "Grafana rewords Pro plan host hour limits as included allocations" (Apr 13, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Grafana Splits Log Pricing Into Three Stages, Cuts Kubernetes Costs 33%" (Apr 3, 2026) and "Grafana splits observability pricing into Process/Write/Retain model" (Feb 23, 2026). Grafana has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Datadog, New Relic and Dynatrace also changed their Data & Analytics pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Limit+3900%
Before5
After200 messages per user per month
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Limit | 5 | 200 messages per user per month | +3900% |
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 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where limit reads 5 and then 200 messages per user per month.
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Grafana, the last 90 days
Full history- Aug 10, 2026packagingGrafana Cloud Logs: new Query billing dimension added ($0.003/GB)
- Jul 3, 2026improvedGrafana: New Database Observability product + Assistant moves to token-based pricing
- Jun 8, 2026packagingGrafana shifts AI billing to tokens, adds $2/1M overage pricing
- May 4, 2026improvedGrafana boosts free Assistant AI quota 40x to 200 messages per month · this change
- 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
Across Data & Analytics in the same window
All Data & Analytics changesQuestions about this change
Did Grafana raise prices in May 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: limit increase.
What changed on Grafana's pricing page between Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026?
Limit: 5 → 200 messages per user per month (+3900%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Apr 27, 2026 and May 4, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Grafana change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 3 other pricing-page changes for Grafana in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Grafana rewords Pro plan host hour limits as included allocations" on Apr 13, 2026; Grafana has been tracked since 2023-11-14.