How much does Splunk cost?

Splunk publishes 7 tiers, from $5/month for On-Call up to $75/month for Observability Cloud - End-to-End. The cheapest paid tier is $5/month.

Does Splunk have a free plan?

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

What is the difference between On-Call and AppDynamics - Infrastructure Edition on Splunk?

AppDynamics - Infrastructure Edition costs $6/month against $5/month, and adds infrastructure monitoring for per vcpu/month pricing billed annually.

Is the Observability Cloud - End-to-End plan on Splunk worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is end-to-end observability for per host/month pricing billed annually. It costs $75/month against $5/month for On-Call. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which networking tools can I use without paying?

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

Does Splunk charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 7 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 Splunk 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 Splunk 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 Splunk covering price, platforms and features.

Networking · pricing

Splunk pricing

Splunk publishes 7 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, Splunk pricing is on request across 7 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: On request
Model: Quote
Tiers: 7
Free tier: Not on record

Splunk 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.

Splunk pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
On-Call	$5/month	2	Entry tier
AppDynamics - Infrastructure Edition	$6/month	1	+$1/month, 1 more feature
Observability Cloud - Infrastructure	$15/month	2	+$9/month, 2 more features
AppDynamics - Premium Edition	$33/month	1	+$18/month, 1 more feature
AppDynamics - Enterprise Edition	$50/month	1	+$17/month, 1 more feature
Observability Cloud - App & Infra	$60/month	1	+$10/month, 1 more feature
Observability Cloud - End-to-End	$75/month	1	+$15/month, 1 more feature

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.

On-Call

$5/month

The entry tier. It covers on-call management for per user per month pricing billed annually, covers up to 10 seats.

AppDynamics - Infrastructure Edition

$6/month

Over On-Call, this tier adds:

Infrastructure monitoring for per vCPU/month pricing billed annually

Observability Cloud - Infrastructure

$15/month

Over AppDynamics - Infrastructure Edition, this tier adds:

Infrastructure monitoring for per host/month pricing
Unlimited users and ability to scale to petabytes of data

AppDynamics - Premium Edition

$33/month

Over Observability Cloud - Infrastructure, this tier adds:

Advanced monitoring for per host/month pricing billed annually

AppDynamics - Enterprise Edition

$50/month

Over AppDynamics - Premium Edition, this tier adds:

Enterprise monitoring for per host/month pricing billed annually

Observability Cloud - App & Infra

$60/month

Over AppDynamics - Enterprise Edition, this tier adds:

App and infrastructure monitoring for per host/month pricing billed annually

Observability Cloud - End-to-End

$75/month

Over Observability Cloud - App & Infra, this tier adds:

End-to-end observability for per host/month pricing billed annually

What the product covers

The full Splunk 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

Log aggregation
Real-time monitoring
Data visualization
Full-text search
Custom dashboards
Alert management
Anomaly detection
Log parsing

Integrations

API
Webhooks
REST

Platform

Web support
Api support

People bring Splunk in for log search and analysis across infrastructure, siem, soar and ueba for a security operations team, application performance and infrastructure monitoring, cloud, private cloud or on-premises deployment. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Splunk 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.

Splunk entry price against other Networking tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Splunk (this page)	On request	quote	-
MikroTik RouterOS	On request	One-time purchase, per licence level	-	vs Splunk
Cisco Meraki	On request	quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence	-	vs Splunk
PRTG Network Monitor	On request	Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract	-	vs Splunk
OpenVPN	Free	Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection	-	vs Splunk
Icinga	Free	Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately	-	vs Splunk
pfSense	Free	Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate	-	vs Splunk

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 Splunk badges page.

Before you pay for Splunk

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: 7 tiers between $5/month and $75/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Splunk against the tools that do have one before committing.

Splunk runs on web, api, and is published by Splunk Inc of United States. The full record is on the Splunk review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.

Splunk pricing on the vendor's own site

Splunk pricing questions

How much does Splunk cost?: Splunk publishes 7 tiers, from $5/month for On-Call up to $75/month for Observability Cloud - End-to-End. The cheapest paid tier is $5/month.
Does Splunk have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: Splunk is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
What is the difference between On-Call and AppDynamics - Infrastructure Edition on Splunk?: AppDynamics - Infrastructure Edition costs $6/month against $5/month, and adds infrastructure monitoring for per vcpu/month pricing billed annually.
Is the Observability Cloud - End-to-End plan on Splunk worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is end-to-end observability for per host/month pricing billed annually. It costs $75/month against $5/month for On-Call. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which networking tools can I use without paying?: 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside Splunk have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
What am I actually paying for with Splunk?: The record lists 13 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for log search and analysis across infrastructure, siem, soar and ueba for a security operations team, application performance and infrastructure monitoring.
Does Splunk charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 7 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 Splunk 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 Splunk 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 Splunk covering price, platforms and features.