How much does Datadog cost?

Datadog publishes 3 tiers, from $0.1/gb for Log Management up to $31/month for APM. The cheapest paid tier is $0.1/gb.

Does Datadog have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Log Management and Infrastructure Monitoring on Datadog?

Infrastructure Monitoring costs $15/month against $0.1/gb, and adds host monitoring, basic dashboards.

Is the APM plan on Datadog worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is application performance monitoring, trace collection. It costs $31/month against $0.1/gb for Log Management. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which technology tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 8 technology tools listed alongside Datadog have a free tier: Canny, Eclipse.

What am I actually paying for with Datadog?

The record lists 25 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for infrastructure monitoring, application performance, security monitoring.

Does Datadog charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Datadog prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Datadog against before paying?

The closest technology tools in this directory are Personetics, Zeta, Finxact, Thought Machine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Datadog covering price, platforms and features.

Technology · pricing

Datadog pricing

Datadog publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Datadog pricing is $15/month across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: $15/month
Model: Not recorded
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Not on record

Datadog plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Datadog pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Log Management	$0.1/gb	2	Entry tier
Infrastructure Monitoring	$15/month	2	+$14.9/month, 2 more features
APM	$31/month	2	+$16/month, 2 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Log Management

$0.1/gb

The entry tier. It covers log indexing, search and filter.

Infrastructure Monitoring

$15/month

Over Log Management, this tier adds:

Host monitoring
Basic dashboards

APM

$31/month

Over Infrastructure Monitoring, this tier adds:

Application performance monitoring
Trace collection

What the product covers

The full Datadog feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Infrastructure monitoring
Application performance monitoring
Log management
Real user monitoring
Synthetic monitoring
Security monitoring
Network monitoring
Serverless monitoring

Integrations

AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Kubernetes
Docker
Jenkins
PagerDuty
Slack

Security

SOC2
ISO27001
HIPAA
FedRAMP

Deployment

Saas deployment

Platform

Cloud support
On-premise support
Hybrid support

Localization

All major languages language support

People bring Datadog in for infrastructure monitoring, application performance, security monitoring, log analysis, cloud monitoring. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Datadog are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Technology

Too few technology tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Datadog entry price against other Technology tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Datadog (this page)	$15/month	-	-
Personetics	On request	quote	-	vs Datadog
Zeta	On request	quote	-	vs Datadog
Finxact	On request	quote	-	vs Datadog
Thought Machine	On request	quote	-	vs Datadog
Alkami	On request	quote	-	vs Datadog
Canny	Free, then $400/month	subscription	-	vs Datadog

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Datadog badges page.

Before you pay for Datadog

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between $0.1/gb and $31/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Datadog against the tools that do have one before committing.

Datadog runs on web, linux, windows, macos, and is published by Datadog Inc of New York, NY. The full record is on the Datadog review, and the rest of the category is under best technology tools.

Datadog pricing on the vendor's own site

Datadog pricing questions

How much does Datadog cost?: Datadog publishes 3 tiers, from $0.1/gb for Log Management up to $31/month for APM. The cheapest paid tier is $0.1/gb.
Does Datadog have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
What is the difference between Log Management and Infrastructure Monitoring on Datadog?: Infrastructure Monitoring costs $15/month against $0.1/gb, and adds host monitoring, basic dashboards.
Is the APM plan on Datadog worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is application performance monitoring, trace collection. It costs $31/month against $0.1/gb for Log Management. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which technology tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 8 technology tools listed alongside Datadog have a free tier: Canny, Eclipse.
What am I actually paying for with Datadog?: The record lists 25 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for infrastructure monitoring, application performance, security monitoring.
Does Datadog charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Datadog prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Datadog against before paying?: The closest technology tools in this directory are Personetics, Zeta, Finxact, Thought Machine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Datadog covering price, platforms and features.