Log Management pricing across 10 tracked products: entry-tier median $0, top-tier median $19. Cheapest: Better Stack. Most premium: Papertrail. Updated April 2026.
Log Management pricing varies across per-seat, per-usage, and enterprise-quoted tiers. Published list prices on vendor pricing pages form the basis of this benchmark; negotiated deals typically land 15-40% below list for teams over 20 seats.
Entry-tier median is $0, top-tier median $19. Negotiated enterprise deals typically land 15-40% below list.
| Product | Entry | Median | Top | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better Stack | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
| Coralogix | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
| Datadog Logs | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
| Elastic Stack (ELK) | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
| Graylog | $0 | $1,500 | $1,550 | month |
| Loggly | $0 | $159 | $279 | month |
| Logz.io | $0 | $38 | $38 | month |
| Mezmo | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
| Papertrail | $0 | $7.00 | $280 | month |
| Splunk Cloud | $675 | $1,337 | $2,000 | month |
Low is the entry-tier price (often a free or starter plan). Median is the middle price across published tiers. High is the top published tier — enterprise contracts with negotiated discounts usually land 15-40% below the published high.
Across 10 tracked products, the entry-tier median is $0 and the top-tier median is $19. Individual products vary significantly — see the per-product table above.
Better Stack has the lowest entry-tier price in our tracked set.
Papertrail has the highest top-tier list price among tracked products.
Prices are sourced from vendor pricing pages and automatically re-checked. Any tier marked 'custom' has no public list price; negotiated deals aren't shown here.