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www.datadoghq.com · Error tracking and observability
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Observability suite priced per product — this profile follows Log Management, the closest analogue to the per-GB platforms it competes with.

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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.
RegionsNine sites: US1, US3, US5, EU1 (Germany), US1-FED, US2-FED, AP1 (Japan), AP2 (Australia) and UK1; each site is a separate instance chosen at signup.
Free tierYes

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 22 criteria comparedSources last checked

Datadog pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$15 per host per month for Infrastructure Pro, the entry paid product source ↗
Pricing model
Per product, not per plan: infrastructure per host, logs split between ingest per GB and indexing per million events, with retention chosen… source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Datadog pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Datadog pricing

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Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree trial
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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.
Sources (1) →
  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “Pro Starting At $ 15 Per host, per month* Centralize your monitoring of systems, services, and serverless functions 1,000+ integrations”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Pricing modelPer 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.
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  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “Flex Ingest Starting At $ 0.10 Per ingested or scanned GB [...] Standard Indexing [...] $ 1.70 Per million log events, per month [...] Pro Starting At $ 15 Per host, per month”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Infrastructure

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RegionsNine sites: US1, US3, US5, EU1 (Germany), US1-FED, US2-FED, AP1 (Japan), AP2 (Australia) and UK1; each site is a separate instance chosen at signup.
Sources (1) →
  • Getting Started with Datadog Sites ↗

    “US1 https://app.datadoghq.com datadoghq.com US US3 https://us3.datadoghq.com us3.datadoghq.com US US5 https://us5.datadoghq.com us5.datadoghq.com US EU1 https://app.datadoghq.eu datadoghq.eu EU (Germany)”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Observability

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Events includedNone 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.
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  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “Standard Indexing 15-day retention [...] $ 1.70 Per million log events, per month* [...] Flex Storage Starting At $ 0.05 Per million events stored, per month*”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Retention windowChosen 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.
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  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “3-day retention 7-day retention 15-day retention 30-day retention Greater than 30 days $ 1.70 Per million log events, per month* [...] 1-day metric retention”

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Session replaySupported — Billed separately from RUM, from $2.50 per 1,000 sessions; replays kept 30 days.
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  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “Session Replay Starting At $ 2.50 Per 1,000 sessions, per month* [...] Replay sessions are billed separately at $ 2.50 per 1,000 sessions.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

Self-hostableLimited — BYOC Logs runs the log engine in your own environment; Datadog hosts the UI, pipeline config and query routing.
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  • BYOC Logs Architecture — Datadog Docs ↗

    “The BYOC Logs engine runs in your environment. [...] The Observability Pipelines Worker and the BYOC Logs engine process log data in your environment. Datadog hosts the pipeline configuration UI and Log Explorer, and routes queries to the engine. [...] No log data leaves your environment during ingestion.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

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.
Sources (1) →
  • Pricing — Datadog ↗

    “Flex Ingest Starting At $ 0.10 Per ingested or scanned GB, per month* [...] *Per GB of uncompressed data ingested for processing, or compressed data scanned for rehydrating. **Billed annually or $ 0.10 on-demand”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Query price$0.05 per GB scanned for Archive Search on an annual commitment ($0.07 per GB scanned on-demand); log Rehydration costs $0.10 per compressed GB scanned.
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  • Pricing | Datadog (Archive Search) ↗

    “Starting At $ 0.05 Per GB scanned [...] Billed annually at $ 0.05 per GB of committed scan capacity or monthly at $ 0.07 per GB scanned on-demand [...] Datadog charges $ 0.10 per compressed GB of log data that is scanned.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Auth

1 criteria
Audit logsDatadog Audit Trail helps customers monitor user and system activity within their organization, including who performed an action, what action was taken, and relevant context about the activity.
Sources (1) →
  • Trust Hub | Datadog ↗

    “Datadog Audit Trail helps customers monitor user and system activity within their organization, including who performed an action, what action was taken, and relevant context about the activity.”

    Read 2026-09-21 · official site · Report a correction

Compliance

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SOC 2SOC 2 Type 2 listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications.
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ISO 27001ISO/IEC 27001 listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications, with the certificate a featured downloadable document.
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HIPAAHIPAA listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications.
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GDPR / data residencyGDPR listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications; a Data Processing Addendum is available under Legal documents.
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PCI DSSPCI DSS listed among Datadog's own compliance certifications.
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Encryption at restStored data is protected by encryption, access controls and authentication; integration credentials are encrypted at rest and in transit.
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Customer-managed keysLog Archives to Amazon S3 can be forced to use a customer-managed key (CMK) from AWS KMS; you supply the CMK ARN and key policy. Scope: archive objects in your own S3 bucket; the other dropdown options are SSE-S3 and the bucket default.
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  • Log Archives — Datadog Docs ↗

    “This option ensures that all archives objects are uploaded using a customer-managed key (CMK) from [...] Ensure that you have completed the following steps to create a valid CMK and CMK policy. Then, provide the CMK ARN to successfully configure this encryption type.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Role-based access controlDefault Admin, Standard and Read-Only roles, plus support for custom roles.
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  • Datadog Security ↗

    “Datadog includes default roles, including Admin, Standard, and Read-Only, and supports custom roles for more granular access management.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

Private networking / VPCAWS PrivateLink supported for Agent and log traffic on supported Datadog sites.
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Dedicated infrastructureBYOC Log Management runs a petabyte-scale log engine in your own infrastructure while the Datadog platform is used for querying, analytics and investigations. Scope: log management deployed into your own cloud environment; other Datadog products are not covered by BYOC.
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  • Bring Your Own Cloud Log Management | Datadog ↗

    “Datadog Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Log Management lets you keep your logs in your own environment while using the Datadog platform for querying, analytics, and investigations. [...] it runs a high-performance, petabyte-scale log engine in your infrastructure, giving you full control over costs, scale, and compliance.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

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Datadog pricing questions

How much does Datadog cost?

$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.

Pricing — Datadog · read

How does Datadog charge?

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.

Pricing — Datadog · read

Does Datadog have a free tier?

Yes.

Pricing — Datadog · read

Can you self-host Datadog?

Partly — BYOC Logs runs the log engine in your own environment; Datadog hosts the UI, pipeline config and query routing.

BYOC Logs Architecture — Datadog Docs · read

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