How much does Loki cost?

Loki publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.

Does Loki have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers log aggregation, label-based indexing, real-time log streaming.

Which log management tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 log management tools listed alongside Loki have a free tier: Coralogix, Better Stack, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor, Bugsnag.

What am I actually paying for with Loki?

The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for aggregating application and infrastructure logs with label based indexing, querying logs alongside metrics in grafana.

Does Loki charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Loki 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 Loki against before paying?

The closest log management tools in this directory are Coralogix, Better Stack, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Loki covering price, platforms and features.

Log Management · pricing

Loki pricing

Loki publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the log management tools listed alongside it.

Entry price: Free
Model: Open-source
Tiers: 1
Free tier: Yes

Loki 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.

Loki pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	3	Entry tier

Where Loki stops being free

Free, Free

Log aggregation
Label-based indexing
Real-time log streaming

No paid tier on record

Loki lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Loki 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.

Core

Log aggregation
Label-based indexing
Real-time log streaming
LogQL query language

Integrations

API
Webhooks
REST

Platform

Web support
Api support

People bring Loki in for aggregating application and infrastructure logs with label based indexing, querying logs alongside metrics in grafana. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Loki are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Log Management

Too few log management 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.

Loki entry price against other Log Management tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Loki (this page)	Free	open-source	-
Coralogix	Free, then $0.42/per GB (logs ingestion)	usage-based	-	vs Loki
Better Stack	Free, then $25/month	freemium	-	vs Loki
AppDynamics	Free	usage-based	-	vs Loki
Azure Monitor	Free	usage-based	-	vs Loki
Bugsnag	Free	usage-based	-	vs Loki
Airbrake	Free	usage-based	-	vs Loki

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 Loki badges page.

Before you pay for Loki

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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Loki runs on web, api, and is published by Grafana Labs of United States. The full record is on the Loki review, and the rest of the category is under best log management tools.

Loki pricing on the vendor's own site

Loki pricing questions

How much does Loki cost?: Loki publishes a single tier, Free, at Free.
Does Loki have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers log aggregation, label-based indexing, real-time log streaming.
Which log management tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 log management tools listed alongside Loki have a free tier: Coralogix, Better Stack, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor, Bugsnag.
What am I actually paying for with Loki?: The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for aggregating application and infrastructure logs with label based indexing, querying logs alongside metrics in grafana.
Does Loki charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Loki 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 Loki against before paying?: The closest log management tools in this directory are Coralogix, Better Stack, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Loki covering price, platforms and features.