Documentation Grafana Cloud Platform Pricing and usage

Grafana Cloud pricing is usage based. You pay for the telemetry you send, the products you turn on, and the people who use them. There’s no single meter across the platform. Instead, each product bills against the unit that best reflects how you consume it, such as active series for metrics, gigabytes for logs, and host hours for Application Observability.

This section explains how each product is billed, but it doesn’t list actual rates. To find the current rates, refer to the pricing page.

To see what you’re actually consuming right now, use the Cost Management and Billing app in your Grafana Cloud stack.

Pricing principles

Four ideas explain most of how Grafana Cloud pricing behaves.

You pay for consumption, not capacity. Metering is tied to what you actually send or use during the month. Products billed on host hours meter only while a host is active, so a host that runs for part of the month costs a fraction of one that runs continuously.

Each product meters independently. Turning on Kubernetes Monitoring doesn’t change how your logs are billed. Products that generate telemetry, such as Application Observability, bill for the product and for the telemetry it produces, and those appear as separate line items.

Your plan includes a base amount of usage. Your monthly price covers a set amount of usage for each product. You’re billed for usage beyond that base.

Discounts apply automatically as you grow. On the Grafana Cloud Pro plan, your effective rate drops as your usage for a product increases. Nothing needs to be enabled or renegotiated. For details, refer to Volume discounts.

Units of measure

Every generally available product and the unit it bills against.

Contract frameworks

Contracted customers can use any generally available product in Grafana Cloud.

On the Flexible Spend Commit contract type, also called Prepaid Spend Commit, you draw down your existing spend commit against any generally available products at the rates on the pricing page. New products bill against the same commitment, so adopting one doesn’t require a contract amendment.

On other contract types, or once you’ve consumed your entire flexible spend commitment, you use any generally available products at the same rates and pay monthly for non-committed usage.

If your usage is scaling and you’re ready to commit, a committed contract can offer better unit economics than published rates. Contact us to explore committed pricing.

How pricing works

Pricing by product

Each product has a page covering how it’s billed, the terms involved, how usage is calculated, and anything unusual about it.

• Host hours billing
  Learn how host hours billing works, what counts as a host, and how active hours are measured across Grafana Cloud products.
• Volume discounts
  Learn how Grafana Cloud volume discounts automatically lower your effective rate as your usage grows.
• Usage limits
  Understand Grafana Cloud usage limits for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Plans and stack tiers
  Compare Grafana Cloud plan tiers and the stack limits that come with each.
• Metrics pricing
  Learn how Grafana Cloud Metrics bills for active series and data points per minute, and how 95th percentile billing works.
• Logs pricing
  Learn how Grafana Cloud Logs bills for data processed, written, retained, and queried.
• Traces pricing
  Learn how Grafana Cloud Traces bills for data processed, written, and retained.
• Profiles pricing
  Learn how Grafana Cloud Profiles bills for data processed, written, and retained.
• Users pricing
  Learn how Grafana Cloud bills for monthly active users and what counts as an active user.
• IRM pricing
  Learn how Grafana Cloud IRM bills for monthly active users and what makes a user active.
• Application Observability pricing
  Learn how Application Observability bills for host hours and telemetry, and how usage is calculated.
• Kubernetes Monitoring pricing
  Learn how Kubernetes Monitoring bills for active host and container hours, and how usage is calculated.
• Database Observability pricing
  Learn how Database Observability bills for host hours, metrics, and logs, and how to estimate your usage.
• Knowledge graph pricing
  Learn how the knowledge graph is billed as an extension of Application Observability and Kubernetes Monitoring host hours pricing.
• Frontend Observability pricing
  Learn how Frontend Observability bills for sessions and telemetry, and what counts as a session.
• Synthetic Monitoring pricing
  Learn how Synthetic Monitoring bills for test executions, and how to estimate your monthly usage.
• Performance Testing pricing
  Learn how Performance Testing bills for virtual user hours, static IP addresses, and data retention.
• Grafana Assistant pricing
  Learn how Grafana Assistant bills for active AI users and token usage, and what's included with your plan.
• Agent Observability pricing
  Learn how Grafana Agent Observability bills for generations, evaluation and guard tokens, and telemetry.

Next steps

• Monitor your usage in the Cost Management and Billing app.
• Attribute costs to teams and services.
• Analyze and reduce costs once you know what you’re paying for.