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Grafana OSS

  • Full Grafana dashboard platform
  • Self-hosted on your infrastructure
  • All core visualizations and panels
  • Alert management
  • Data source plugins
  • Community plugins
  • Apache 2.0 license
  • Community support

Free

  • All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
  • 10,000 active metrics series per month
  • 50 GB logs ingested per month
  • 50 GB traces ingested per month
  • 50 GB profiles ingested per month
  • k6 performance testing included
  • 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6
  • Community support
  • No credit card required

Pro

  • Everything in Free
  • $19/month platform fee
  • Pay-as-you-go above free tier limits with automatic volume discounts
  • Metrics: $6.50 per 1,000 active series
  • Logs — Process: $0.05/GB, Write: $0.40/GB, Retain: $0.10/GB
  • Traces — Process: $0.05/GB, Write: $0.40/GB, Retain: $0.10/GB
  • Profiles — Process: $0.05/GB, Write: $0.40/GB, Retain: $0.10/GB
  • 13-month metrics retention
  • 30-day log/trace/profile retention
  • 8x5 email support

Enterprise

  • Everything in Pro
  • Premium support
  • Custom data retention policies
  • Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud)
  • Custom uptime SLAs
  • Volume discounts — metrics as low as $3 per 1,000 series
  • Adaptive Metrics — eliminate unused time series, optimize by up to 80%
  • Adaptive Logs — drop unused log patterns, optimize ingest by up to 50%
  • Advanced security and compliance
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List price by tier (annualized, per license)

Per-license list price across Grafana's plans, annualized. Custom-priced tiers show a hatched bar.

Pro$228/yr
Enterprise$25K/yr
Real-world benchmark

Buyers actually pay a median of $100K/yr for Grafana contracts (Vendr deal flow, n=78). That's a contract total — the more seats, the more leverage to negotiate down.

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Grafana costs Free to $2.1K per month as of November 2026, with 4 plans available including a free tier. Plans: Grafana OSS (free), Free (free), Pro at $19/month, and Enterprise at $25K/year. The median contract is $100,058/year based on 78 buyer-reported purchases (Vendr).

Use the interactive pricing calculator to estimate your exact cost based on team size and requirements.

  • Free tier: Yes

Grafana offers 4 pricing tiers: Grafana OSS, Free, Pro, Enterprise. A free plan is available. Paid plans include Pro at $19/month, Enterprise at $25K/year. The Free plan is personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups — no charges ever.

Compared to other developer tools software, Grafana is positioned at the premium price point.

  • Median contract: $100,058/yr from 78 purchases Precise
  • Average negotiated discount: 16%
  • 4 documented hidden costs beyond list price
  • Contracts auto-renew — 60 days before renewal
Last verified: | Sources: 3 pricing pages and reviews

How much does Grafana cost?

Grafana has a free plan; paid plans start at $19/mo. Plans include Grafana OSS (free), Free (free), Pro at $19/month, Enterprise at $25000/year.

Grafana Pricing Overview

Grafana has 4 pricing plans, including a free tier. Paid plans range from $19 to $2083.33/month. The Grafana OSS plan is free and is best for teams comfortable self-hosting who want full dashboard flexibility at zero cost. The Free plan is free and is best for personal projects, exploring new ideas, and early-stage startups — no charges ever. The Pro plan costs $19/month, best for growing teams needing extended retention, 8x5 support, and flexible usage-based billing. The Enterprise plan costs $25,000/year, best for enterprises with security, compliance, or custom deployment requirements, or high-volume usage benefiting from committed discounts.

Grafana contracts auto-renew, with a 1 year typical for Enterprise minimum commitment, requiring 60 days before renewal notice to cancel.

The median Grafana customer pays $100,058/year based on 78 buyer-reported purchases (Vendr), with an average 16% discount available through negotiation.

There are at least 4 documented hidden costs beyond Grafana's list price, including implementation, training, and add-on fees.

This pricing was last verified in July 15, 2026 from 3 independent sources.

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Grafana is the leading open-source observability and visualization platform, used by thousands of organizations worldwide to monitor infrastructure, applications, and business metrics. Originally created as a fork of Kibana in 2014, Grafana has grown into a comprehensive observability stack including Grafana OSS, Grafana Cloud Free, Grafana Cloud Pro, and Grafana Cloud Enterprise.

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What Companies Actually Pay for Grafana

The median Grafana buyer pays $100,058/year based on 78 buyer-reported purchases (Vendr), with an average 16% savings through negotiation.

What companies actually pay $100,058/yr Median across 78 buyer-reported purchases (Vendr) Precise
16% avg. savings
with negotiation
Review scores
TrustRadius 8.6out of 10 (155)
Third-party review aggregates, as of Feb 2026
Top pricing complaints
Pricing complexity and unexpected cost escalation at scaleSelf-hosting requires significant DevOps expertise and ongoing maintenanceEnterprise plugin certification costs are prohibitively expensiveDocumentation for scaling Loki is incomplete despite petabyte claims
Source: Vendr buyer data — median of 78 purchases reported to Vendr. Buyer-reported estimates, not verified by CostBench or the vendor; savings reflect discounts buyers reported.

Grafana Cost by Company Size

Example costs for teams of different sizes. Each figure is labelled with the period it covers.

Small Startup (Free Tier) $0 per month

$0/month - Within free tier limits (10K series, 50 GB logs, 3 users), no charges apply

Early-stage startup with 3 engineers monitoring 5,000 metrics series, ingesting 20 GB logs/month, using Grafana Cloud Free with 14-day retention

Mid-Size Team (Pro, 50K Series) $19 per month

$19/month Pro platform fee plus usage-based charges for metrics series, log volume, users and k6 tests. The total depends on how much usage exceeds the included amounts.

Growing team of 15 engineers monitoring 50,000 metrics series, ingesting 200 GB logs/month, and running k6 load tests on Grafana Cloud Pro

Enterprise (Advanced, 500K Series) $25,000 estimated cost

$25,000+/year minimum - Volume-discounted pricing with dedicated Observability Architect, custom SLA, and Adaptive Metrics for cost optimization

Large enterprise with 100+ engineers, 500,000 metrics series, 2 TB logs/month, requiring custom retention, BYOC deployment, and premium support

Small Team (3-5 users) with Basic Monitoring Needs $0 per month

$0/month - Free tier covers 10K metrics series, 50GB logs, 3 active users, 14-day retention

Covers a startup or small team using Grafana Cloud Free tier for basic infrastructure monitoring with Prometheus metrics, staying within the 10,000 active series limit.

Growing Startup (10-20 users) with Moderate Scale $419 per month

$19/month base + approximately $400/month for additional metrics and users = $419/month or $5,028/year

Team exceeding free tier limits, moving to Grafana Cloud Pro with approximately 50,000 active timeseries, 200GB logs/month, and 15 active users.

Enterprise with Grafana Enterprise License $100,058 per year

$100,058/year buyer-reported median; Enterprise pricing is custom-quoted and varies with scale

Large organization with 100+ users requiring Enterprise features like SSO, RBAC, premium support, and extended data retention. Based on Vendr median pricing.

How Grafana Pricing Compares

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4 Grafana Hidden Costs Beyond the List Price

Beyond the listed price, Grafana has at least 4 documented hidden costs that can significantly increase total cost of ownership.

Watch for 4 hidden costs
  • Active Timeseries Pricing Complexity $8/1000 active timeseries
    high 1 source
    Reddit “Grafana metric pricing is based on `number of active timeseries * DPM (data point per metric per minute)`.”
  • Self-Hosting Infrastructure and Maintenance Costs 10-25% of avoided SaaS costs
    medium 2 sources
    Reddit “It can be pretty challenging to get a fully featured grafana labs stack and elk stack going on your own. It ends up often being a focus of attention rather than other things that you probably actually want to do.”
    Reddit “loki: you are 100% correct its a mess to scale. They have blog posts about how they are doing petabytes but never tell you how to do it. It is also very expensive at scale”
  • Enterprise Per-User Licensing Costs $5-$9/user/month
    medium 2 sources
    Reddit “Grafana is now currently asking us for $80k per year…. Here’s the kicker they will not develop anything, this is just to have it in the store and signed by them.”
    Reddit “Pricing: * Grafana Editor license costs $9 per active editor or administrator user per workspace * Grafana Viewer license costs $5 per active user per workspace and provides the user with view-only access to the Amazon Managed Grafana workspace.”
  • Annual Price Escalation Clauses 5%
    low 1 source
    Vendr “We were able to get the auto-renew removed (had 60 day notice) and the uplift language removed (5% uplift language) on the new renewal order form term.”
Tip

Ask your Grafana sales rep about these costs upfront. Getting them in writing before signing can save you from surprise charges later.

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Intelligence sourced from 3 independent sources
Reddit User discussions Vendr Verified buyer transactions TrustRadius Enterprise reviews
Key claims include inline source attribution. Data verified against multiple independent sources. 14 source citations total.

Grafana Contract Terms

Grafana contracts auto-renew. Changes require 60 days before renewal. These terms are sourced from verified buyer experiences.

Contract Terms
Auto-Renewal Yes
Cancellation Notice 60 days before renewal
Minimum Commitment 1 year typical for Enterprise
Mid-Term Downgrade Not allowed
Payment Terms Annual upfront for Enterprise, self-serve monthly for Cloud
Price Escalation 5% annual uplift clause standard in Enterprise contracts but negotiable
Based on 2 verified sources

How to Negotiate Grafana Pricing

Grafana contracts are negotiable — buyers save an average of 16% off list price. These 5 tactics are sourced from real buyer experiences and procurement specialists.

Negotiation Playbook 5 tactics
Leverage User Count Increases high success

When renewing or expanding Grafana Enterprise, use the increase in user count as leverage to negotiate per-user discounts. One buyer achieved approximately 16% discount on cost per user by doubling their user count during renewal.

Vendr community insight
Remove Auto-Renewal and Price Escalation Clauses high success

Grafana Enterprise contracts typically include auto-renewal with 60-day notice and 5% annual price uplift language. These terms are negotiable and can be removed entirely. Request manual renewal with no automatic price increases.

Vendr community insight
Self-Serve for Contracts Under $25k TCV medium success

For total contract values below $25,000 per year, you're unlikely to get better pricing through enterprise sales than Grafana Cloud Pro. Consider staying on self-serve unless you need Grafana Cloud Enterprise-only deployment, security, compliance, or committed-discount requirements.

Vendr community insight
Multi-Year Commitments for 5% Discount medium success

Grafana offers multi-year agreements with an additional 5% discount, though this is the maximum discount typically available. Weigh this against the flexibility loss of a longer commitment.

Vendr community insight
Compare Against Self-Hosting Costs medium success

Calculate the total cost of self-hosting Grafana OSS including infrastructure, DevOps time, and complementary tools (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Thanos). Use this as leverage in negotiations. One company saved $6k/month switching from Datadog to self-managed Grafana, suggesting significant savings are possible.

Reddit user experience
High success Medium Low / difficult

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Grafana Price History

Pricing changes CostBench has tracked for Grafana, verified across 2 snapshots going back to 2026Q1.

  1. Grafana tier renamed

    "Grafana Cloud Advanced" renamed to "Grafana Cloud Enterprise"

Price stable over 0.4 years

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Grafana Pricing FAQ

01 How much does Grafana cost?

Grafana OSS is free to self-host. Grafana Cloud Free includes 10,000 active metrics series/month, 50 GB logs/month, and 14-day retention at no cost. Grafana Cloud Pro starts at $19/month plus usage-based charges, including $6.50 per 1,000 active metrics series above the free tier and log processing from $0.05/GB. Grafana Cloud Enterprise uses custom pricing with a $25,000/year minimum commitment.

02 Is Grafana free?

Yes, in two ways. Grafana OSS is fully free and open source (Apache 2.0) for self-hosting. Grafana Cloud Free is hosted by Grafana Labs at zero cost with 10K metrics series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 3 users, and 14-day retention. Both are truly free forever with no credit card required.

03 What is Grafana?

Grafana is an open-source observability and data visualization platform. It provides dashboards for monitoring metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from any data source (Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch, etc.). Grafana Cloud extends this with managed hosting, alerting, synthetic monitoring, k6 load testing, and AI-powered incident investigation.

04 Grafana vs Datadog?

Grafana Cloud uses open-source foundations (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo) with usage-based pricing starting free. Datadog charges per host ($15-23/host/month) with add-on pricing per feature. Grafana is typically 30-50% cheaper for metrics-heavy workloads but requires more setup. Datadog offers a more integrated out-of-box experience with 700+ integrations. Choose Grafana for cost control and open-source flexibility; choose Datadog for all-in-one simplicity.

05 What is an active metrics series in Grafana?

An active metrics series is a unique combination of metric name and label values that has received data points in the billing period. For example, 'http_requests_total{method="GET", status="200", service="api"}' is one series. Kubernetes environments generate many series due to pod labels. Grafana charges $6.50 per 1,000 active series on the Pro plan.

06 What's included in Grafana Cloud Advanced?

Grafana Cloud Advanced ($25,000+/year) includes everything in Pro plus: premium support with a dedicated Observability Architect, custom data retention policies, deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud), custom uptime SLAs, volume-based pricing discounts, Adaptive Metrics for cost optimization, and advanced security and compliance features.

07 Should I self-host Grafana or use Grafana Cloud?

Self-hosting Grafana OSS is free but requires significant DevOps resources. You'll need to set up and maintain Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. Scaling Prometheus requires additional tools like Thanos or Cortex. For teams under $25k/year in equivalent costs, Grafana Cloud's managed service is often more cost-effective when factoring in engineering time. One company reported saving $6k/month switching from Datadog to self-hosted Grafana, but this required dedicated DevOps expertise.

08 Can I negotiate Grafana Enterprise pricing?

Yes, but discounts are modest. Typical negotiation achieves 5-16% off list pricing. Key tactics: leverage user count increases for per-user discounts (16% achieved by one buyer), remove auto-renewal and 5% annual uplift clauses, and consider multi-year commitments for an additional 5% discount. For contracts under $25k total contract value, self-serve pricing is often comparable to enterprise negotiated rates.

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