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AppDynamics
Enterprise Application Performance Management
As of 30 August 2026, AppDynamics starts at $6/month. AppDynamics is an application performance management platform that provides real-time visibility. Softwr lists it under Logging. AppDynamics is made by AppDynamics (Cisco), launched in 2008, available on Web, API.
Overview
What AppDynamics does
AppDynamics is an application performance management platform that provides real-time visibility.
What people use it for
- Application performance monitoring for Java, .NET and other enterprise application stacks
- Business transaction tracing across distributed application tiers
- Infrastructure monitoring priced per vCPU
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about AppDynamics.
- appdynamics.com/pricing returns a 301 redirect to Splunk's observability pricing page; the product is now sold as Splunk AppDynamics
- Infrastructure Edition starts at $6 per vCPU per month billed annually, so cost scales with core count rather than host count
- Premium Edition starts at $33 per host per month and Enterprise Edition at $50 per host per month, both billed annually
- The published figures are starting prices only, with volume pricing requiring a sales quote
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Pricing
What AppDynamics costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Infrastructure Edition
$6 /mo
- Infrastructure monitoring
Premium Edition
$33 /mo
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Applications
- APM
Enterprise Edition
$50 /mo
- Premium Edition features
- Business Analytics
Capabilities
Features
Application performance monitoring
Distributed tracing
Real-time analytics
Alert management
API
Integration with API
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST
Integration with REST
Web support
Available on web
Api support
Available on api
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How is AppDynamics priced?
AppDynamics uses a subscription model based on vCPU usage, billed annually. Infrastructure Edition starts at $6 per vCPU/month, Premium Edition at $33 per vCPU/month, and Enterprise Edition at $50 per vCPU/month. Additional capabilities like Secure Application, Real User Monitoring, and Synthetics have separate per-unit pricing.
SourceWhat add-on costs does AppDynamics charge?
Secure Application costs $13.75 per CPU core per month (billed annually). Real User Monitoring is $0.06 per 1000 tokens per month. Browser Synthetics costs $12 per test location per month. SAP Solutions monitoring is $95 per CPU core per month.
SourceBehind it
Who makes AppDynamics
- Company
- AppDynamics (Cisco)
- Based in
- United States
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