At a glance
- Deployment
- saas
- Licence
- proprietary
- Categories
- observability platform, apm, log management, metrics backend, tracing backend, llm observability, rum synthetics, profiling, siem, telemetry pipeline, incident management, instrumentation
- Ownership
- public
- Estimate
- Costed from published list prices
- Vendor-side sampling
- yes
What it charges for
Every line item recorded for Datadog. "Not stated" means the vendor's own page gives no number; it is never treated as zero.
| Line item | Unit | Commitment | List price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Pro | host-month | annual | $15 | d-pricing-apm, d-pricing-list |
| Infrastructure Pro | host-month | month-to-month / on-demand | $18 | d-pricing-list |
| Infrastructure Enterprise | host-month | annual | $23 | d-pricing-apm, d-pricing-list |
| Infrastructure Enterprise | host-month | month-to-month / on-demand | $27 | d-pricing-list |
| DevSecOps Pro bundle | host-month | annual | $22 | d-pricing-list |
| DevSecOps Enterprise bundle | host-month | annual | $34 | d-pricing-list |
| Containers (beyond allotment) | container-month | annual / month-to-month | $1 | d-pricing-list |
| Containers (beyond allotment) | custom | on-demand | $0.002 | d-pricing-list |
| Custom Metrics (beyond allotment) | custom-metric-series-month | all | $0.05 | d-billing-docs, d-pricing-list |
| Ingested Custom Metrics (Metrics without Limits) | custom-metric-series-month | all | $0.001 | d-pricing-list |
| Custom Events | custom | annual | $2 | d-pricing-list |
| APM | apm-host-month | annual | $31 | d-pricing-apm, d-pricing-list |
| APM | apm-host-month | month-to-month / on-demand | $36 | d-pricing-list |
| APM Pro | apm-host-month | annual | $35 | d-pricing-list |
| APM Enterprise | apm-host-month | annual | $40 | d-pricing-apm, d-pricing-list |
| APM Enterprise | apm-host-month | month-to-month / on-demand | $48 | d-pricing-list |
| Ingested Spans (beyond allotment) | gb-ingested | all | $0.1 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Spans 15-day | million-spans | annual | $1.7 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Spans 15-day | million-spans | month-to-month | $2.04 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Spans 15-day | million-spans | on-demand | $2.55 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Spans 30-day | million-spans | annual | $2.5 | d-pricing-list |
| Serverless APM | custom | annual | $10 | d-pricing-list |
| Continuous Profiler | host-month | annual | $19 | d-pricing-list |
| Universal Service Monitoring | host-month | annual | $9 | d-pricing-list |
| Data Streams Monitoring | host-month | annual | $15 | d-pricing-list |
| Database Monitoring | host-month | annual | $70 | d-pricing-list |
| Database Monitoring | host-month | month-to-month / on-demand | $84 | d-pricing-list |
| Cloud Network Monitoring | host-month | annual | $5 | d-pricing-list |
| Log Ingestion | gb-ingested | all | $0.1 | d-pricing-list, d-pricing-logs |
| Indexed Logs 3-day | million-events | annual | $1.06 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Logs 7-day | million-events | annual | $1.27 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Logs 15-day | million-events | annual | $1.7 | d-pricing-list, d-pricing-logs |
| Indexed Logs 15-day | million-events | month-to-month | $2.04 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Logs 15-day | million-events | on-demand | $2.55 | d-pricing-list, d-pricing-logs |
| Indexed Logs 30-day | million-events | annual | $2.5 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Logs 30-day | million-events | month-to-month | $3 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Logs 30-day | million-events | on-demand | $3.75 | d-pricing-list |
| Indexed Logs >30-day | million-events | contract | Not stated | d-pricing-logs |
| Flex Logs Storage | million-events | annual | $0.05 | d-pricing-list, d-pricing-logs |
| Flex Logs Storage | million-events | on-demand | $0.075 | d-pricing-list, d-pricing-logs |
| Flex Logs Compute (XS/S/M/L) | custom | contract | Not stated | d-pricing-logs |
| Flex Logs Starter | million-events | annual | $0.6 | d-pricing-logs |
| Log Rehydration | gb-scanned | all | $0.1 | d-pricing-logs |
| Log Forwarding to Custom Destinations | custom | all | $0.25 | d-pricing-list, d-pricing-logs |
| Sensitive Data Scanner | gb-scanned | annual | $0.3 | d-pricing-list |
| Observability Pipelines Standard | gb-processed | annual | $0.095 | d-pricing-list |
| Observability Pipelines Plus | core-month | annual | $1,950 | d-pricing-list |
| RUM Measure | session-thousand | annual | $0.15 | d-pricing-list |
| RUM Investigate | session-thousand | annual | $3 | d-pricing-list |
| Session Replay | session-thousand | annual | $2.5 | d-pricing-list |
| Product Analytics | session-thousand | annual | $0.8 | d-pricing-list |
| Synthetic API Tests | test-run-thousand | annual | $0.5 | d-pricing-list |
| Synthetic Browser Tests | test-run-thousand | annual | $12 | d-pricing-list |
| Error Tracking (first 50K errors) | flat-month | annual | $25 | d-pricing-list |
| Agent Observability (LLM Obs) base | flat-month | annual | $160 | d-pricing-list |
| Agent Observability (LLM Obs) additional spans | llm-request-thousand | annual | $0.35 | d-pricing-list |
| Agent Observability (LLM Obs) additional spans | llm-request-thousand | on-demand | $0.5 | d-pricing-list |
| Bits AI SRE | custom | annual | Not stated | t-bits-pricing |
| Cloud SIEM | million-events | annual | $5 | d-pricing-list |
| Incident Management | user-month | annual | $30 | d-pricing-list |
| On-Call | user-month | annual | $20 | d-pricing-list |
| Audit Trail | custom | annual / monthly | Not stated | d-pricing-list |
How the estimate is built
The standard deployment is priced by these components (methodology). A quantity is a formula over the workload variables; free allowances are subtracted first, and a tier prices only its own band.
| Component | Line item | Quantity | Free | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure hosts | Infrastructure Pro · per host-month · annual | hosts | ||
| APM hosts | APM · per apm-host-month · annual | apm_hosts | ||
| Span ingest beyond 150 GB per APM host · billed on everything received | Ingested Spans (beyond allotment) · per gb-ingested · all | span_gb | 150 * apm_hosts | |
| Spans indexed 30 days, beyond 1M per APM host | Indexed Spans 30-day · per million-spans · annual | spans_million | 1 * apm_hosts | |
| Log ingest | Log Ingestion · per gb-ingested · all | log_gb | ||
| Logs indexed 30 days | Indexed Logs 30-day · per million-events · annual | log_events_million | ||
| Custom metrics beyond 100 per host | Custom Metrics (beyond allotment) · per custom-metric-series-month · all | metric_series | 100 * hosts |
Example monthly bills
The same four illustrative workloads as the calculator, at list price. "At least" means a price the vendor does not state is left out of the total.
| Workload | Per month | Note | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $779 | Open Starter in the calculator→ | |
| Small | $4,138 | Open Small in the calculator→ | |
| Medium | $64,831 | Open Medium in the calculator→ | |
| Large | $635,806 | Open Large in the calculator→ |
Capabilities
What Datadog offers, by the definitions in the dataset. Add-on means a separately priced product.
| Capability | Level | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Ai root cause AI-assisted root-cause analysis or investigation agent | Add-on | d-bits-sre-pr, t-bits-pricing |
| Audit logs Audit log of user/admin actions | Add-on | d-pricing-list |
| Byoc Vendor-managed in the customer's cloud account | Partial | d-cloudprem |
| Continuous profiling Continuous profiling | Add-on | d-pricing-apm, d-pricing-list |
| Data reduction Drop, aggregate, dedupe, or convert logs-to-metrics before billing | Yes | d-op-docs, d-pricing-logs |
| Ebpf autoinstrumentation Zero-code instrumentation via eBPF | Yes | d-pricing-list, d-usm-docs |
| Federated search Query data in place (object storage, other tools) without ingesting | Partial | d-cloudprem |
| Fedramp FedRAMP authorized (state level in note) | Yes | d-fedramp-high |
| Hipaa HIPAA-eligible (BAA available) | Yes | t-compliance |
| Incident response Native on-call/incident workflow | Add-on | d-pricing-list |
| Llm observability LLM/agent tracing, token and cost tracking, evaluations | Add-on | d-pricing-list |
| Logs Log management | Yes | d-pricing-logs |
| Mcp server Exposes an MCP server for agents | Yes | d-mcp-pr |
| Metrics Metrics | Yes | d-pricing-list |
| Multi destination routing Route one stream to several third-party destinations | Add-on | d-op-docs, d-pricing-logs |
| Open format archive Archive in an open format (Parquet, JSON, OTLP) in customer object storage | Yes | d-pricing-logs |
| Otel collector distro Ships or supports its own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution | Yes | d-otel-collector |
| Otlp ingest Accepts OTLP (gRPC or HTTP) natively, without a proprietary agent in the path | Yes | d-otlp-agent, d-otlp-agentless |
| Persistent queue Disk-backed buffering and retry under backpressure | Yes | d-op-docs |
| Pii redaction Mask/redact sensitive data in the pipeline | Add-on | d-op-sds, d-pricing-list |
| Pipeline processing Parse, enrich, transform in flight before storage | Yes | d-op-docs |
| Proprietary agent required Full functionality needs the vendor's own agent (yes = lock-in signal) | Partial | d-otel-native-blog, d-otlp-agentless |
| Rehydration Re-ingest archived data for search on demand | Yes | d-pricing-logs |
| Rum Real-user monitoring (browser/mobile) | Add-on | d-pricing-list |
| Saas Vendor-hosted SaaS | Yes | d-otlp-agentless |
| Sampling tail Tail-based trace sampling | Partial | d-pricing-apm |
| Security siem SIEM or security analytics | Add-on | d-pricing-list |
| Self hosted Customer can run it on its own infrastructure | No | d-cloudprem, d-op-docs |
| Synthetics Synthetic monitoring | Add-on | d-pricing-list |
| Tiered storage Hot/warm/cold or archive tiers priced differently | Yes | d-pricing-logs |
| Traces Distributed tracing | Yes | d-pricing-list |
Sources
Every page cited above, with the date it was read. Third-party pages are marked; a price stated only by a third party is shown as not stated.
| Id | Kind | Page | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
d-billing-docs | vendor-docs | Datadog Billing | 2026-10-02 |
d-bits-sre-pr | vendor-marketing | Datadog Launches Bits AI SRE Agent | 2026-10-02 |
d-cloudprem | vendor-docs | Introduction to CloudPrem | 2026-10-02 |
d-fedramp-high | vendor-marketing | Datadog for Government achieves FedRAMP High | 2026-10-02 |
d-mcp-pr | vendor-marketing | Datadog Launches MCP Server | 2026-10-02 |
d-op-docs | vendor-docs | Observability Pipelines | 2026-10-02 |
d-op-sds | vendor-docs | OP Sensitive Data Scanner Processor | 2026-10-02 |
d-otel-collector | vendor-docs | Set Up the OpenTelemetry Collector | 2026-10-02 |
d-otel-native-blog | vendor-marketing | Use OpenTelemetry-native observability with Datadog | 2026-10-02 |
d-otlp-agent | vendor-docs | OTLP Ingestion by the Datadog Agent | 2026-10-02 |
d-otlp-agentless | vendor-docs | Datadog OTLP Intake Endpoint | 2026-10-02 |
d-pricing-apm | vendor-pricing | Datadog Pricing (product page: allotments, free tier, APM Enterprise) | 2026-10-02 |
d-pricing-list | vendor-pricing | Datadog Pricing List | 2026-10-02 |
d-pricing-logs | vendor-pricing | Datadog Pricing - Log Management | 2026-10-02 |
d-usm-docs | vendor-docs | Universal Service Monitoring | 2026-10-02 |
t-bits-pricing | third-party | Datadog Bits Pricing: Complete Cost Analysis | 2026-10-02 |
t-compliance | third-party | Datadog Security & Compliance Profile | 2026-10-02 |
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