At a glance
- Deployment
- self-hosted, hybrid
- Licence
- open-source
- Categories
- telemetry pipeline, instrumentation
- Ownership
- Acquired by Datadog, closed 2021-02 · s_acq, s_dd_oss, s_gh
- Estimate
- Costed from published list prices
- Vendor-side sampling
- no
What it charges for
Every line item recorded for Vector (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vector (open source) | custom | none | $0 | s_gh |
| Observability Pipelines | gb-processed | annual | $0.095 | s_dd_list |
| Observability Pipelines | gb-processed | month-to-month | $0.1 | s_dd_list |
| Observability Pipelines | gb-processed | on-demand | $0.12 | s_dd_list |
| Observability Pipelines Plus | core-month | annual | $1,950 | s_dd_list, s_op_sizing |
| Observability Pipelines Plus | core-month | month-to-month | $2,340 | s_dd_list |
| Observability Pipelines Plus | core-month | on-demand | $2,808 | s_dd_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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability Pipelines, logs ingested into the Worker | Observability Pipelines · per gb-processed · annual | log_gb |
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 | $1.24 | Open Starter in the calculator→ | |
| Small | $12.48 | Open Small in the calculator→ | |
| Medium | $250 | Open Medium in the calculator→ | |
| Large | $2,497 | Open Large in the calculator→ |
Capabilities
What Vector (Datadog) offers, by the definitions in the dataset. Add-on means a separately priced product.
| Capability | Level | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Data reduction Drop, aggregate, dedupe, or convert logs-to-metrics before billing | Yes | s_op_processors, s_v_transforms |
| Fedramp FedRAMP authorized (state level in note) | No | s_dd_pricing |
| Logs Log management | Yes | s_gh, s_op_docs |
| Metrics Metrics | Yes | s_gh, s_op_processors |
| Multi destination routing Route one stream to several third-party destinations | Yes | s_op_docs, s_v_transforms |
| Observability as code Terraform provider / dashboards-and-alerts as code | Yes | s_v_sources |
| Open format archive Archive in an open format (Parquet, JSON, OTLP) in customer object storage | Yes | s_v_s3 |
| Otlp ingest Accepts OTLP (gRPC or HTTP) natively, without a proprietary agent in the path | Partial | s_op_sources, s_v_otel |
| Persistent queue Disk-backed buffering and retry under backpressure | Yes | s_v_s3 |
| Pii redaction Mask/redact sensitive data in the pipeline | Yes | s_op_processors, s_v_vrl |
| Pipeline processing Parse, enrich, transform in flight before storage | Yes | s_op_processors, s_v_transforms |
| Prometheus remote write Accepts Prometheus remote_write | Yes | s_v_sources |
| Proprietary agent required Full functionality needs the vendor's own agent (yes = lock-in signal) | No | s_v_sources |
| Saas Vendor-hosted SaaS | Partial | s_op_docs |
| Sampling tail Tail-based trace sampling | No | s_op_processors, s_v_transforms |
| Self hosted Customer can run it on its own infrastructure | Yes | s_gh, s_op_docs |
| Traces Distributed tracing | Partial | s_gh, s_op_sources, s_v_otel |
| Usage cost controls Quotas, budgets, usage attribution to teams | Partial | s_op_processors |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
s_acq | vendor-marketing | Datadog Acquires Timber Technologies (press release, 2021-02-11) | 2026-10-05 |
s_dd_list | vendor-pricing | Datadog Pricing List | 2026-10-05 |
s_dd_oss | vendor-marketing | Vector (Datadog Open Source) | 2026-10-05 |
s_dd_pricing | vendor-pricing | Datadog Pricing (Observability Pipelines entry, US-FED note) | 2026-10-05 |
s_gh | vendor-docs | vectordotdev/vector (README, license) | 2026-10-05 |
s_op_docs | vendor-docs | Observability Pipelines | 2026-10-05 |
s_op_processors | vendor-docs | Observability Pipelines Processors | 2026-10-05 |
s_op_sizing | vendor-docs | Best Practices for Scaling Observability Pipelines | 2026-10-05 |
s_op_sources | vendor-docs | Observability Pipelines Sources | 2026-10-05 |
s_v_otel | vendor-docs | Vector OpenTelemetry source | 2026-10-05 |
s_v_s3 | vendor-docs | Vector AWS S3 sink (encodings, buffers) | 2026-10-05 |
s_v_sources | vendor-docs | Vector Sources reference | 2026-10-05 |
s_v_transforms | vendor-docs | Vector Transforms reference | 2026-10-05 |
s_v_vrl | vendor-docs | VRL function reference (redact) | 2026-10-05 |
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