Pricing for Grafana Cloud
How pricing changes as you scale: upgrade triggers, cost cliffs, and plan structure (not a live price list).
Freshness & verification
Pricing behavior (not a price list)
These points describe when users typically pay more and what usage patterns trigger upgrades.
Actions that trigger upgrades
- Active metric series exceeds 10K free tier — Pro tier starts at $8/1K active series/month
- Team needs Grafana Alerting with on-call scheduling and escalation — requires Pro or higher tier
- Log volume exceeds 50GB/month free tier — additional logs at $0.50/GB ingested
What gets expensive first
- Active series pricing requires understanding metric cardinality — a single high-cardinality label can generate thousands of series
- Loki (logs) uses a different storage model than Elasticsearch — queries on non-indexed labels are slower than teams expect
- Tempo (traces) sampling configuration is critical — storing all traces at scale becomes expensive without head or tail sampling
Plans and variants (structural only)
Grouped by type to show structure, not to rank or recommend SKUs.
- Verify current pricing on the official website.
Compare pricing trade-offs head-to-head
Use these comparisons when you are down to two finalists and need a clearer trade-off view.
Next step: constraints + what breaks first
Pricing tells you the cost cliffs; constraints tell you what forces a redesign.
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.
Something outdated or wrong? Pricing, features, and product scope change. If you spot an error or have a source that updates this page, send us a correction. We prioritize vendor-verified updates and linkable sources.