# Datadog

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/observability/datadog/

Observability suite priced per product — this profile follows Log Management, the closest analogue to the per-GB platforms it competes with.

## Who it suits

Teams that need one vendor across infrastructure, logs, traces and replay, and can model a bill that has a separate meter for each.

Consider something else if Ingest and indexing are billed separately on the same logs, so $0.10 per GB is not the cost of keeping a log — the indexing charge above it is where the bill actually lands.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- Entry paid plan: $15 per host per month for Infrastructure Pro, the entry paid product. Datadog prices per product rather than per plan, so this is one meter of many rather than a platform fee. ([source](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- Pricing model: Per product, not per plan: infrastructure per host, logs split between ingest per GB and indexing per million events, with retention chosen per index and priced accordingly. There is no single Datadog price — this profile follows Log Management, which is the meter comparable to the per-GB platforms in this category. ([source](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)

### Observability

- Events included: None included. Log indexing is $1.70 per million events per month at 15-day retention, and Flex Storage is $0.05 per million events stored — ingest and indexing are separate charges on the same logs. ([source](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- Retention window: Chosen per index and priced with it: 3, 7, 15 or 30 days, or greater than 30 by arrangement. The $1.70 per million rate is the 15-day tier. Infrastructure metrics retain 1 day on the free plan. ([source](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- Session replay: Supported ([source](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- Ingest price per GB: $0.10 per ingested or scanned GB per month for Log Management, billed annually — the same rate on demand. Indexing those logs is charged separately. ([source](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)

## Compared with

- [Datadog vs Grafana Cloud](https://inetgeek.com/compare/datadog-vs-grafana-cloud/)
- [Datadog vs SigNoz](https://inetgeek.com/compare/datadog-vs-signoz/)
- [Datadog vs OpenObserve](https://inetgeek.com/compare/datadog-vs-openobserve/)
- [Datadog vs Sentry](https://inetgeek.com/compare/datadog-vs-sentry/)