Grafana Cloud Pricing: Grafana Pricing, Grafana Enterprise Pricing and Cost
One platform fee, seventeen separate meters, and a data source plugin that quietly multiplies your per-user rate by 6.9. Every figure below came off Grafana's own pages this week, including the ones most guides still have wrong.
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Self-hosted Grafana OSS is free under AGPLv3 with no user cap. Grafana Cloud has three plans: a permanent Free tier capped at 3 active users, a Pro plan that is a $19 per month platform fee plus usage across seventeen separately metered products, and Enterprise starting at a $25,000 per year minimum spend commit. Grafana visualization bills at $8.00 per active user per month, where an active user is anyone who logs in during the billing month. The number that catches people out is Enterprise plugins: the same product with the Snowflake, Databricks, Oracle and Salesforce data sources costs $55.00 per active user, 6.9 times the base rate. All figures read from grafana.com on 20 August 2026.
›_ grafana pricing, the four ways to pay
Grafana sells three cloud plans and gives the software away.
Read off grafana.com/pricing on 20 August 2026. Grafana was mid-announcement that week, with a banner on its own pricing page reading "Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it."
| Plan | Published price | Billing | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0always free | No credit card | All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, community support, and 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6 tests. Capped at 3 active users. |
| Pro | From $19per month plus usage | Self-serve, pay as you go | The $19 platform fee carries a small included allowance in every product, then everything above it bills per unit with automatic volume discounts. 8x5 email support, 13 months metrics retention, 30 days for logs and traces. |
| Enterprise | $25,000per year, minimum spend commit | Annual contract | Grafana states the minimum commit under every single product on its pricing page. Adds premium support, custom retention and deployment choice (public cloud, federal cloud, or bring your own cloud). |
| Grafana OSS, self-hosted | $0no seat count, no meter | AGPLv3, self-managed | You run it, you pay for the servers. Grafana Labs charges nothing and counts nobody. Enterprise features and Enterprise data source plugins need a paid license key. |
Two things worth flagging before you budget from a third-party guide. Several pages still ranking for "grafana pricing" quote visualization at $15 per monthly active user and describe an "Advanced" tier; neither appears on Grafana's page today. And the $25,000 Enterprise minimum is not buried in a footnote, it is repeated verbatim under all seventeen products. To see how a usage meter compares with a straight seat licence, put this next to Power BI pricing and the full BI tools comparison.
›_ grafana cloud pricing, in full
There is no such thing as "the" Grafana Cloud price. There are seventeen meters.
The $19 platform fee buys a small included allowance in every product below. Everything past the allowance bills per unit, with automatic volume discounts.
This is the honest reason Grafana Cloud quotes vary so wildly between guides: two teams on the same plan can pay $19 and $19,000 depending on what they send. Grafana meters metrics by active series, logs and traces by gigabytes across three separate operations, infrastructure by host hour, frontend by session, load tests by virtual user hour, and dashboards by the humans who log in. The table is every published rate on one screen so you can find your own two or three line items instead of reading a blended average.
| Product | Unit | Pro rate | Volume tiers | Included in $19 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metrics (Prometheus) | per 1k active series | $6.50 | $5.90 at 100k, $5.50 at 200k+ | 10k active series |
| Logs (Loki), write | per GB written | $0.400 | $0.370 at 1k GB, $0.355 at 2.5k+ | 50 GB ingested |
| Logs (Loki), process | per GB processed | $0.050 | $0.046 at 10k GB, $0.044 at 25k+ | in the 50 GB |
| Logs (Loki), retain | per GB retained | $0.100 | $0.092 at 5k GB, $0.088 at 12.5k+ | 30 days on Pro |
| Traces (Tempo) | same process / write / retain split as logs | $0.050 to $0.400 | identical tier table to Loki | 50 GB ingested |
| Profiles (Pyroscope) | same three-part split | $0.050 to $0.400 | identical tier table to Loki | 50 GB ingested |
| Kubernetes Monitoring | per host hour | $0.0100 | about $7.20 per host per month | 2,232 host hours |
| Kubernetes Monitoring | per container hour | $0.00070 | about $0.50 per container per month | 37,944 container hours |
| Application Observability | per host hour | $0.025 | about $18 per host per month | 2,232 host hours |
| Database Observability | per database host hour | $0.070 | about $51 per host per month | 2,232 host hours (3 hosts) |
| Frontend Observability (RUM) | per 1k sessions | $0.750 | $0.655 at 750k, $0.590 at 1.5M+ | 50k sessions |
| Synthetics, browser tests | per 10k browser executions | $50.00 | $44.50 at 100k, $41.50 at 250k+ | 10k browser executions |
| Performance testing (k6) | per virtual user hour | $0.150 | $0.135 at 3.5k, $0.120 at 7.5k+ | 500 virtual user hours |
| Grafana visualization | per active user | $8.00 | $7.25 at 26, $6.80 at 51+ | 3 active users |
| Visualization with Enterprise plugins | per active user | $55.00 | $49.00 at 26, $45.50 at 51+ | 3 active users |
| Incident Response and Management | per active IRM user | $20.00 | $17.50 at 26, $16.25 at 51+ | 3 active IRM users |
| Grafana Assistant (AI) | per active AI user | $20.00 | $18.25 at 26, $17.00 at 51+, tokens never discounted | 3 AI users, 40M tokens each |
Two definitions do a lot of work in that table. A host is billed by the hour and counts as active only if it sent a signal in the last 15 minutes, so 2,232 host hours is 31 days times 24 hours times 3 machines, and a fleet that scales down at the weekend genuinely pays less. A log gigabyte is charged three times over, once to process, once to write and once to retain, which is why $0.400 per GB is the number to plan around rather than $0.050.
›_ grafana cost per user
Grafana dashboards cost $8.00 per active user, or $55.00 if you need Snowflake.
Enterprise plugins are a paid add-on at $55.00 per active user per month. Grafana says so in its own pricing FAQ. Almost no third-party guide repeats it.
Grafana lists "Grafana visualization" and "Grafana Visualization with Enterprise Plugins" as two separate products on the same pricing page, at $8.00 and $55.00 per active user per month. The wording in the FAQ is unambiguous: "By default, your account will have Grafana without Enterprise plugins, which is priced at $8 per active user per month." The add-on is not per plugin and not per connection. It moves your whole billable user base to the higher rate. If one analyst needs the Snowflake data source, everyone who logs in that month is a $55 user.
Warehouses and databases
Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Aurora, Oracle Database, IBM Db2, MongoDB, CockroachDB, DynamoDB, Azure CosmosDB, SAP HANA
Observability vendors
Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (SignalFx), Honeycomb, SumoLogic, Wavefront, LogicMonitor
Business systems
Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk, Looker, Adobe Analytics, Atlassian Statuspage, PagerDuty
Cloud and delivery
Cloudflare, Netlify, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Drone, Catchpoint, SolarWinds
Read the first card carefully if you were planning to point Grafana at a warehouse. Postgres, MySQL and the Prometheus family ship in open source Grafana at no charge. Snowflake, Databricks, Oracle, MongoDB and SAP HANA do not. That single line is the difference between a $900 a year dashboard bill and a $4,848 one for the same ten people, and it is the detail that makes "Grafana is basically free" wrong for a data team specifically.
›_ grafana pricing per user, worked
With Enterprise plugins, self-serve Pro passes Grafana's own $25,000 commit at about 42 users.
Graduated tiers, first 3 users included in the $19 platform fee, telemetry excluded. Check the arithmetic yourself.
| Team size | Pro, per month | Pro, per year | With Enterprise plugins, per month | With Enterprise plugins, per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 people | $19 | $228 | $19 | $228 |
| 10 people | $75 | $900 | $404 | $4,848 |
| 25 people | $195 | $2,340 | $1,229 | $14,748 |
| 50 people | $376 | $4,515 | $2,454 | $29,448 |
| 100 people | $716 | $8,595 | $4,729 | $56,748 |
The crossover falls out of those two columns. Grafana's Enterprise minimum is $25,000 a year, which is $2,083.33 a month. Users 1 to 3 are covered by the $19 fee, users 4 to 25 bill at $55.00 (22 seats, $1,210), and everyone after that bills at $49.00. Solving ($2,083.33 minus $19 minus $1,210) divided by $49.00 gives 17.4, so 25 plus 17.4 is roughly 42 active users. Past 42 people the self-serve plan that was meant to avoid a contract costs more than the contract, before you have sent a single metric. Without Enterprise plugins the same crossover sits somewhere past 300 users, which is a different business entirely.
Assumptions stated so you can disagree with them: graduated tiering (each band charged at its own rate), the first three users absorbed by the platform fee, and no telemetry cost at all. Real bills add metrics, logs and traces on top, and Grafana will discount an annual commit. Treat these as the floor for the dashboard line item, not a quote.
›_ is grafana free, grafana cloud free tier
Yes, Grafana is free twice over. The cloud free tier runs out of people before it runs out of data.
Grafana calls it "always free" with no credit card. It is a permanent tier, not a 14 day trial.
| What | Free tier limit | Honest read |
|---|---|---|
| Active users | 3 | The binding limit. Almost every team outgrows this before it outgrows anything else on the list. |
| Metrics | 10k active series | Enough for a handful of services with restrained labels. Cardinality, not host count, is what blows it. |
| Logs, traces and profiles | 50 GB ingested each | Genuinely generous. A small production estate can sit inside this indefinitely. |
| Retention | 14 days, everything | Fine for debugging, useless for quarter-over-quarter trends or most compliance requirements. |
| Kubernetes monitoring | 2,232 host hours + 37,944 container hours | 2,232 is 31 days x 24 hours x 3, so read it as three always-on hosts. |
| Grafana Assistant (AI) | 3 AI users, 40M tokens each, plus a 25M system pool | Real usage, not a demo. Watch the 1 October 2026 date on Investigations. |
| Support | Community only | Pro buys 8x5 email. Anything faster is an Enterprise conversation. |
| Price | $0, no card | Grafana calls it "always free" and does not time-limit it. This is not a trial. |
Self-hosting is the other free option and it has no caps at all. Grafana OSS moved from the Apache 2.0 licence to AGPLv3 on 20 April 2021, starting with Grafana 8.0, and there is a free proprietary escape hatch most write-ups miss. We unpack both in Grafana Enterprise vs open source.
›_ grafana assistant pricing
Grafana starts billing AI Investigations on 1 October 2026, and tokens are exempt from every discount.
$20.00 per active AI user including 40M tokens, then $2 per 1M. The exemption is Grafana's own parenthetical.
Grafana Assistant is the newest line on the bill and the one most likely to surprise a finance team, because it behaves unlike everything else on the page. Every other meter earns an automatic volume discount as you grow. Tokens do not: Grafana's own answer to "do you provide discounts for higher usage volumes" ends with the parenthetical "note: discounts do not apply to tokens". Scale makes AI relatively more expensive here, not less.
Grafana Assistant seat
$20.00 per active AI user per month
Includes 40M tokens per user per month. Tiered to $18.25 at 26 users and $17.00 at 51+.
Token overage
$2 per 1M tokens
Grafana's discount FAQ carries the parenthetical "discounts do not apply to tokens". Volume buys you nothing here.
System-initiated pool
25M tokens per month, shared
Covers alert-triggered investigations, LLM evals and guards, and service-account or API usage across the whole org.
Investigations
Not billed until 1 October 2026
Generally available now, token usage visible in usage views so you can baseline before billing starts.
Cloud MCP server
Counts as an active AI user
Grafana states connecting through the MCP server marks you active for the billing period even at zero token usage.
The MCP line is the one to read twice. Grafana states that connecting through the Cloud MCP server "counts you as an active AI user for that billing period, even if your token usage is zero". Point a coding agent at Grafana once and you have bought a $20 seat for the month. Worth noting alongside it: Google is switching Looker Conversational Analytics from unmetered to billed on exactly the same date, 1 October 2026, at $3.00 per 1M input and $20.00 per 1M output data tokens. Two independent vendors picked the same quarter to stop absorbing AI cost, which is the clearest signal yet that free AI analytics inside a BI tool was an introductory offer. The full Google side is on Looker pricing.
›_ grafana license cost, third-party figures
What other people report, clearly labeled as not a Grafana number.
Grafana publishes no self-managed Enterprise price at all. Everything in this table is secondary and two rows of it are simply out of date.
| What | Reported figure | Source and caveat |
|---|---|---|
| Median negotiated Grafana contract | About $100,000 per year | Third-party procurement data, reported medians |
| Self-managed Enterprise license | Roughly $50 to $150 per user per year | Third-party pricing guides, estimated. Grafana publishes no self-managed price. |
| Commonly quoted visualization rate | $15 per monthly active user | Widely repeated and out of date. Grafana's own page said $8.00 on 20 August 2026. |
| The "Advanced" tier | Still cited by several guides | Not on grafana.com/pricing on 20 August 2026. The plans are Free, Pro and Enterprise. |
We are listing the stale figures rather than quietly correcting them because you will meet them: they sit on page one for "grafana pricing" and they are what an AI assistant is most likely to repeat back to you. If a quote you have been given is built on $15 per monthly active user or an "Advanced" plan, it was priced against a page Grafana no longer publishes.
›_ honest read
When Grafana pricing works in your favor, and when it does not.
We build a tool in an adjacent neighborhood, so weigh this accordingly. Every Grafana figure above is checkable against Grafana's own pages.
Billing logins instead of seats is genuinely fairer
Power BI bills every assigned licence whether or not the person opens it. Grafana bills only the people who actually logged in that month. For an org with a long tail of occasional readers that difference is real money, and it is the strongest thing about this pricing model.
Seventeen meters is seventeen ways to be surprised
Nobody forecasts active series or log gigabytes accurately on the first try, and a cardinality mistake in a label can multiply a metrics bill overnight. Grafana ships Adaptive Metrics and Adaptive Logs precisely because this happens. Budget for a correction in month two.
The $8 to $55 step is a cliff, not a slope
Most pricing surprises are gradual. This one is binary: the moment a single dashboard needs Snowflake, Databricks or Salesforce, every active user in the org reprices. Decide which data sources you need before you decide the plan, not after.
Grafana is a monitoring tool that people use for BI
It is superb at "is this number moving and when did it change". It is weaker at the ad hoc business question that needs a join across three tables nobody has modeled yet. That is a fit question, not a price question, and it is the one worth settling first.
There is also a gap that no pricing tier closes. Grafana answers the questions you built a panel for. The question somebody asks on a Tuesday afternoon, the one that needs a join nobody anticipated, still turns into a ticket for whoever owns the data. That gap is what we built Agentsql for: it connects read-only to Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake or BigQuery, turns a plain-English question into SQL, runs it, and shows the SQL every time so an analyst can check the logic. Notably, Snowflake is a first-class connection for us rather than a $55 per user plugin upgrade. If you are still comparing platforms, weigh the seat models on Tableau pricing, QuickSight pricing and Snowflake pricing, or read the licence side in Grafana Enterprise vs open source.
›_ frequently asked
Grafana pricing questions, answered.
How much does Grafana cost?
Self-hosted Grafana OSS costs nothing beyond your own servers. Grafana Cloud Pro is a $19 per month platform fee plus usage, with visualization at $8.00 per active user. Grafana Enterprise on Cloud starts at a $25,000 per year minimum spend commit. A ten-person team on Pro pays about $75 a month before telemetry.
Is Grafana free?
Yes, in two different ways. Grafana OSS is free open source software under AGPLv3 with no user cap. Grafana Cloud also has a permanent free tier, not a trial: 10k metrics series, 50 GB each of logs, traces and profiles, 14 day retention, and 3 active users. The people cap is what most teams hit first.
Is Grafana free for commercial use?
Yes. Grafana OSS is AGPLv3, which permits commercial use. The obligations only engage if you modify the source and then distribute it or offer it to others over a network. If your legal team objects to AGPL, Grafana also publishes a free-to-use, proprietary-licensed Enterprise binary with the same features.
How much does Grafana Cloud cost?
Grafana Cloud Pro starts at $19 per month, and that platform fee is only the entry ticket. Seventeen products meter separately on top of it: metrics at $6.50 per 1k active series, logs at $0.400 per GB written, visualization at $8.00 per active user, IRM at $20.00, AI at $20.00. Free is $0 forever.
What is included in the Grafana Cloud free tier?
The free tier includes 10k active metrics series, 50 GB each of logs, traces and profiles, 50k frontend sessions, 500 k6 virtual user hours, 2,232 host hours, 3 active users, 3 AI users with 40M tokens each, 14 days of retention and community support. Grafana calls it always free with no credit card.
How much does Grafana Enterprise cost?
On Grafana Cloud, Enterprise starts at a $25,000 per year minimum spend commitment, stated under every product on Grafana's pricing page. For self-managed Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Labs publishes no price at all and routes you to sales. The closest published proxy is the $55.00 per active user Cloud rate with Enterprise plugins.
What is a Grafana active user?
Grafana defines an active user as "any user that logs into Grafana during the billing month". It is not a provisioned seat. Someone who opens one dashboard once in a month is billed as a full active user for that month, and someone with an account who never logs in costs nothing.
Why is Grafana with Enterprise plugins $55 instead of $8?
Enterprise plugins are a paid add-on priced at $55.00 per active user per month against $8.00 for standard Grafana. The list is where Snowflake, Databricks, Oracle, MongoDB, SAP HANA, Salesforce, Splunk and Datadog live, so connecting Grafana to a data warehouse moves your entire user base to the higher rate.
Does Grafana charge for AI?
Yes. Grafana Assistant is $20.00 per active AI user per month including 40M tokens, with overage at $2 per 1M tokens, and Grafana explicitly excludes tokens from volume discounts. Investigations are unbilled until 1 October 2026. Connecting through the Cloud MCP server makes you an active AI user even at zero tokens.
Is Grafana cheaper than Power BI or Tableau?
For dashboards over time-series data, usually yes: $8.00 per active user beats Power BI Pro at $14.00 and Tableau's reseller-reported $75 Creator seat. Add Enterprise plugins at $55.00 and it stops being true. Grafana also bills only people who log in, while Power BI bills every assigned licence.
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