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OpenObserve pricing and limits

iScore51–62 · ≈#9/9
openobserve.ai · Error tracking and observability
SEPT 2026 audit

Open-source observability covering logs, metrics, traces, RUM and session replay, priced per GB with retention included.

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Entry paid planNo minimum: Cloud Professional is pay-as-you-go from $0.50 per GB ingested plus $0.01 per GB queried, billed monthly with no upfront commitment.
GitHub stars21,751openobserve/openobserve
RegionsFour OpenObserve Cloud regions: US West 2 (California, Azure), US East 2 (Ohio, AWS), EU Central 1 (Frankfurt, AWS) and Asia Pacific South 1 (Mumbai, AWS).
Free tierNo — Cloud offers a 14-day trial only; the self-hosted Enterprise build is free up to 50 GB/day

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 24 criteria comparedSources last checked

OpenObserve pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
No minimum: Cloud Professional is pay-as-you-go from $0.50 per GB ingested plus $0.01 per GB queried, billed monthly with no upfront… source ↗
Pricing model
Two meters and nothing else: $0.50 per GB ingested and $0.01 per GB queried, with retention included rather than sold as a tier source ↗
When the free offer ends
14 days source ↗

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

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Teams that want one bill they can predict — ingest, query, and retention included — with session replay and RUM in the same product rather than as separate purchases.

Consider something else if…

Ingest is $0.50 per GB against Grafana Cloud's $0.050, so the simplicity costs an order of magnitude at volume.

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Open source: openobserve/openobserve · 21,751 stars · 1,076 forks

OpenObserve's own site (openobserve.ai) self-detects as: hosting — US hosting, Cloud Hosting, Cloud PaaS, Server Location · CDN — Edge Delivery Network · DNS — Enterprise DNS (category-level via BuiltWith, not a named vendor)

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OpenObserve pricing

6 criteria
Free tierNo — Cloud offers a 14-day trial only; the self-hosted Enterprise build is free up to 50 GB/day
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Kind of free offerFree trial
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Credit card to startNo
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When the free offer ends14 days.
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Entry paid planNo minimum: Cloud Professional is pay-as-you-go from $0.50 per GB ingested plus $0.01 per GB queried, billed monthly with no upfront commitment.
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Pricing modelTwo meters and nothing else: $0.50 per GB ingested and $0.01 per GB queried, with retention included rather than sold as a tier. OpenObserve frames it as no hidden tiers and no surprise bills.
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Infrastructure

2 criteria
RegionsFour OpenObserve Cloud regions: US West 2 (California, Azure), US East 2 (Ohio, AWS), EU Central 1 (Frankfurt, AWS) and Asia Pacific South 1 (Mumbai, AWS).
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Uptime SLASLAs appear in the enterprise feature list alongside architecture reviews and volume discounts. No percentage is published on the pricing page.
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Observability

5 criteria
Retention windowIncluded rather than priced: 15 months for metrics and 30 days for logs, traces, RUM and everything else, at no extra cost on pay-as-you-go.
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  • Pricing — OpenObserve ↗

    “Included Retention Metrics 15 Months Non metrics (Logs, Traces and etc.) 30-Days [...] The Pay-as-you-Go plan includes the following default retention at no extra cost”

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

Session replaySupported
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Self-hostableSupported
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Ingest price per GB$0.50 per GB ingested, quoted with a 30% annual-commitment discount already applied.
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Query price$0.01 per GB queried, billed separately from ingest.
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Support

1 criteria
Support on entry paid planPremium support is listed among the enterprise features. The pay-as-you-go cloud plan's support level is not stated; the page directs anyone wanting enterprise support to sales.
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  • OpenObserve Pricing ↗

    “role-based access control (rbac) premium support deployment flexibility (public cloud, or bring your own cloud) architecture reviews volume discounts slas [...] for ingestion volumes above 50 gb per day or additional enterprise support, contact the openobserve sales team.”

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

Compliance

10 criteria
SOC 2SOC 2 Type II certified; the report is requested through security@openobserve.ai or the trust portal.
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ISO 27001ISO 27001 certification announced November 2025, with the certificate held in the trust portal; the security page itself makes no ISO representation.
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HIPAAEnterprise-tier Cipher Keys are documented as giving encryption and compliance support for HIPAA. A feature-level statement in the Enterprise Features docs, not a certification, audit report or BAA.
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GDPR / data residencyCustomer selects the storage region and OpenObserve does not relocate stored data without instruction; a DPA covering EU and UK GDPR is published.
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  • Security & Compliance | OpenObserve ↗

    “Customers select among the storage regions available for their service, as reflected in their order or deployment configuration. OpenObserve does not relocate stored Customer Data to another region without customer instructions or agreement.”

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

PCI DSSEnterprise-tier Cipher Keys are documented as giving encryption and compliance support for PCI. A feature-level statement in the Enterprise Features docs, not a PCI DSS attestation or AOC.
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Encryption at restNot guaranteed by OpenObserve: storage-layer encryption and key management depend on the hosting provider and deployment architecture.
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Customer-managed keysCipher Keys (Enterprise Edition and Cloud): you supply the key and may hold it in your own Akeyless external key management system. Keys decrypt encrypted log fields at query time; not storage-layer key management.
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Role-based access controlYes on Cloud (preconfigured) and Enterprise (via OpenFGA); not available in the open-source edition, where all users have unrestricted access.
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Private networking / VPCNamed for BYOC, where the customer manages VPC peering, Transit Gateway or PrivateLink; for Cloud the SLA names only the customer's own internet egress. Read from the shared-responsibility tables: Cloud in section 4.2, BYOC in 4.3.
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  • OpenObserve Service Level Agreement ↗

    “Maintaining the Customer's own internet connectivity and egress required to reach the Service endpoints. [...] Managing VPC peering, Transit Gateways, or PrivateLink connections required for OpenObserve to access and manage the deployment in the Customer's cloud account.”

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

Dedicated infrastructureSingle-Tenant Hosted and OpenObserve-managed BYOC deployments are offered alongside multi-tenant Cloud, all under the 99.8% SLA.
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OpenObserve pricing questions

How much does OpenObserve cost?

No minimum: Cloud Professional is pay-as-you-go from $0.50 per GB ingested plus $0.01 per GB queried, billed monthly with no upfront commitment.

OpenObserve Pricing | Pay per GB, No Per-Host or Seat Fees · read

How does OpenObserve charge?

Two meters and nothing else: $0.50 per GB ingested and $0.01 per GB queried, with retention included rather than sold as a tier. OpenObserve frames it as no hidden tiers and no surprise bills.

Pricing — OpenObserve · read

Does OpenObserve have a free tier?

No free tier; the free offer is a free trial.

OpenObserve Pricing | Pay per GB, No Per-Host or Seat Fees · read

Does the OpenObserve free offer expire?

14 days.

OpenObserve Pricing · read

Do you need a credit card to start on OpenObserve?

No.

OpenObserve Pricing · read

What uptime does OpenObserve guarantee?

SLAs appear in the enterprise feature list alongside architecture reviews and volume discounts. No percentage is published on the pricing page.

OpenObserve Pricing · read

Can you self-host OpenObserve?

Yes.

Pricing — OpenObserve · read

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