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Prometheus pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Prometheus. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Prometheus catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Prometheus review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Prometheus 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
- Multi-dimensional Data Model
- PromQL Query Language
- Pull-based Collection
- Service Discovery
- Alerting Rules
- Federation
- Local Storage
Integrations
- Grafana
- Alertmanager
- Kubernetes
- Node Exporter
- Thanos
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Docker support
- Kubernetes support
People bring Prometheus in for cloud-native monitoring and alerting, time-series metrics collection, infrastructure monitoring. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Prometheus are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Prometheus
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: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Prometheus runs on linux, macos, windows, and is published by Cloud Native Computing Foundation of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the Prometheus review.
Prometheus pricing questions
- How much does Prometheus cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for Prometheus, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does Prometheus have a free plan?
- Yes, Prometheus is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with Prometheus?
- The record lists 17 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for cloud-native monitoring and alerting, time-series metrics collection, infrastructure monitoring.
- Does Prometheus charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, 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 Prometheus 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 Prometheus against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Prometheus to make a useful price comparison.