How much does Netdata cost?

Netdata publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Netdata Agent up to On request for Netdata Cloud paid tiers. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Netdata Agent and Netdata Cloud paid tiers on Netdata?

Netdata Cloud paid tiers costs On request against Free, and adds per-node subscription for fleet management features, role based access control and longer alert history, business and enterprise support options, priced per node, published on the vendor site.

Which networking tools can I use without paying?

3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside Netdata have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.

Does Netdata charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Netdata 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 Netdata against before paying?

The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Netdata covering price, platforms and features.

Networking · pricing

Netdata pricing

Netdata publishes 2 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, Netdata pricing is free across 2 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: Free
Model: Open source, no licence fee
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Netdata 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.

Netdata pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Netdata Agent	Free	4	Entry tier
Netdata Cloud paid tiers	On request	4	Priced on request

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.

Netdata Agent

Free

The entry tier. It covers gplv3 agent with unlimited nodes, per-second metrics and edge anomaly detection, local dashboards and alerting, community support.

Netdata Cloud paid tiers

On request

Over Netdata Agent, this tier adds:

Per-node subscription for fleet management features
Role based access control and longer alert history
Business and enterprise support options
Priced per node, published on the vendor site

Where Netdata stops being free

Netdata Agent, Free

GPLv3 agent with unlimited nodes
Per-second metrics and edge anomaly detection
Local dashboards and alerting
Community support

No paid tier on record

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

What the product covers

The full Netdata 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

Per-second collection
Zero-configuration discovery
Edge machine learning
Tiered database engine
Streaming and replication
Health alarms

People bring Netdata in for diagnosing a short-lived performance incident where one-minute averages hide the spike entirely, kubernetes clusters where per-series billing from a hosted vendor has become the largest observability cost, adding dense host visibility to an estate that already has prometheus for application metrics, small teams with no monitoring engineer who need working dashboards on the day of installation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Netdata are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Networking

Too few networking 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.

Netdata entry price against other Networking tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Netdata (this page)	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-
MikroTik RouterOS	On request	One-time purchase, per licence level	-	vs Netdata
Cisco Meraki	On request	quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence	-	vs Netdata
PRTG Network Monitor	On request	Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract	-	vs Netdata
OpenVPN	Free	Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection	-	vs Netdata
Icinga	Free	Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately	-	vs Netdata
pfSense	Free	Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate	-	vs Netdata

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 Netdata badges page.

Before you pay for Netdata

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: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Netdata runs on linux, macos, freebsd, docker, kubernetes, windows, and is published by Netdata Inc. of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Netdata review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.

Netdata pricing on the vendor's own site

Netdata pricing questions

How much does Netdata cost?: Netdata publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Netdata Agent up to On request for Netdata Cloud paid tiers. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Netdata have a free plan?: Yes. The Netdata Agent tier costs nothing and covers gplv3 agent with unlimited nodes, per-second metrics and edge anomaly detection, local dashboards and alerting.
What is the difference between Netdata Agent and Netdata Cloud paid tiers on Netdata?: Netdata Cloud paid tiers costs On request against Free, and adds per-node subscription for fleet management features, role based access control and longer alert history, business and enterprise support options, priced per node, published on the vendor site.
Which networking tools can I use without paying?: 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside Netdata have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
What am I actually paying for with Netdata?: The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for diagnosing a short-lived performance incident where one-minute averages hide the spike entirely, kubernetes clusters where per-series billing from a hosted vendor has become the largest observability cost, adding dense host visibility to an estate that already has prometheus for application metrics.
Does Netdata charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Netdata 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 Netdata against before paying?: The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Netdata covering price, platforms and features.