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title: "Pricing and usage | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn how Grafana Cloud pricing works, what each product bills for, and how your usage is measured."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Pricing and usage

Grafana Cloud bills for what you use. Each product has its own unit of measure, and this section explains what that unit is and how it’s counted.

For current rates, refer to the [pricing page](/pricing/). To monitor, attribute, and reduce your spend, refer to [Cost management and billing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/cost-management-and-billing/).

- [Understand volume discounts](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/volume-discounts/)  
  Learn how Grafana Cloud volume discounts automatically lower your effective rate as your usage grows.
- [Understand Grafana Cloud usage limits](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/usage-limits/)  
  Understand Grafana Cloud usage limits for metrics, logs, and traces.
- [Stack pricing tiers](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/stack-plans/)  
  Learn about Grafana Cloud Stack pricing tiers
- [Understand your Grafana Cloud Metrics invoice](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/metrics/)  
  Understand your Grafana Cloud Metrics invoice.
- [Understand your Grafana Cloud Logs, Traces, and Profiles invoices](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/logs/)  
  Explanation of cost usage attribution for Grafana Cloud Logs, Traces, and Profiles
- [Understand your Grafana Users invoice](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/users/)  
  Explanation of Grafana Cloud Active User billing
- [Understand your Grafana Cloud IRM invoice](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/irm/)  
  Explanation of Grafana Cloud IRM billing and packaging
- [Knowledge graph pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/knowledge-graph/)  
  Learn more about knowledge graph pricing
- [Understand your Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability invoice](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/frontend-observability/)  
  Explanation of Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability billing
- [Understand your Synthetic Monitoring invoice](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/synthetic-monitoring/)
- [Understand your Performance Testing invoice](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/performance-testing/)  
  Performance Testing subscriptions have policies for the number of virtual users and amount of data retention.