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Datadog

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Pricing spans many distinct devtools/security services with a mix of per-host, per-committer, and multiple metered usage units; this hybrid model is proportionate to the platform’s breadth but requires tracking numerous meters, allowances, and retention choices. Variants like on-demand vs annual rates, included container allotments with overages, and a contact-sales Flex Compute component make exact bills workload- and configuration-dependent.

model: gpt-5
0🧾
Pricing clarity
Pretty tangled
0🤖
Agent easiness
Some friction
📐 how these scores work

How we scored it 🧮

Every page starts at 100. Each kind of complexity subtracts points — here's the math.

🧾 Pricing clarity

42
  • Base score+100
  • 22 plans to compare-17
  • 4 in-plan configuration choices-2
  • 2 add-ons / extras-4
  • 11 metered dimensions to track-18
  • Sprawling pricing page — couldn't read it in full-15
  • Spans 11 distinct services to navigate-7
  • Plan breadth is reasonable for a 11-service platform+5
  • Total42 / 100

🤖 Agent easiness

65
  • Base score+100
  • Read from raw HTML (no markdown)-15
  • Pricing page too large to read in full-20
  • Total65 / 100

The pricing tree 🌳

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💳 Hybrid💱 $🪜 22 tiers🧩 2 add-ons

The tiers 🪜

AI Credits
$500
per 500 credits, per month
  • On-demand price$1.30 per credit
  • ✦Bits Chat — natural language search and analysis of telemetry
  • ✦Bits Investigation — automated investigations, correlation, root cause, summaries, remediations
  • ✦Bits Code — AI-assisted code generation, review, debugging
  • ✦Bits Agent Builder — build custom AI agents for workflows
Code Coverage
$8
per committer, per month
  • On-demand price$12 per committer per month
  • ✦Unified visibility into test coverage across repositories
  • ✦Line/file/branch coverage
  • ✦PR quality gates and comments
  • ✦Bits AI Dev Agent test suggestions
Log Management - Ingest
$0.10
per ingested or scanned GB, per month
  • On-demand price$0.10 per GB
  • ✦Ingest, process, enrich, live tail, and archive logs
  • ✦Out-of-the-box parsing for 200+ sources
  • ✦Log-based metrics
  • ✦Self-hosted archives with rehydration
  • ✦Dynamic routing to retention tiers
Log Management - Standard Indexing
$1.70
per million log events, per month
  • Default retention options mentioned3, 7, 15, 30 days, >30 days
  • On-demand price$2.55 per million events per month
  • ✦Real-time exploration, alerting, dashboards
  • ✦Log Monitors
  • ✦Watchdog Insights anomaly detection
  • ✦Best for frequently accessed logs
Log Management - Flex Storage
$0.05
per million events stored, per month
  • Minimum retention1 month (up to 15 months)
  • On-demand price$0.075 per million events per month
  • ✦Long-term flexible retention up to 15 months
  • ✦Correlate with metrics and traces
  • ✦Best for infrequently accessed logs
Log Management - Flex Compute
Contact
  • Pricing unitPer instance-hour
  • ✦Preconfigured compute options for search and analytics
  • ✦Search logs in Standard and Flex tiers
  • ✦Datadog-managed compute
  • ✦Scale up or down per workload
Log Management - Flex Logs Starter
$0.60
per million events stored, per month
  • Minimum retention3 months
  • On-demand price$0.90 per million events per month
  • ✦Retention options 3, 6, 12, 15 months
  • ✦Bundled Starter Compute for volumes below 2B events/month
  • ✦Search logs in Standard and Flex without rehydration
Log Forwarding to Custom Destinations
$0.25
per GB outbound, per destination, per month
  • ✦Forward logs in real time to any destination
  • ✦Collect, transform, and route without indexing
  • ✦RBAC-enabled
Feature Flags
$55
per month
  • Included free usageUp to 1M MFCRs per month
  • On-demand price (1M-10M)$100 per 1M MFCRs
  • Annual price (1M-10M)$55 per 1M MFCRs
  • Monthly price (1M-10M)$89 per 1M MFCRs
  • Annual price (10M+)$45 per 1M MFCRs
  • Monthly price (10M+)$73 per 1M MFCRs
  • ✦Decouple deployment from release
  • ✦Telemetry-driven canary rollouts with automatic rollbacks
  • ✦Correlate flags with service health
  • ✦Target users/services/environments
Infrastructure - Free
$0
  • Metric retention1 day
  • HostsUp to 5 hosts
  • ✦Core collection and visualization
  • ✦1,000+ integrations (subset implied by Free)
  • ✦Out-of-the-box dashboards
Infrastructure - Pro
$15
per host, per month
  • On-demand price$18 per host per month
  • ✦Centralized monitoring of systems, services, serverless
  • ✦1,000+ integrations
  • ✦Out-of-the-box dashboards
  • ✦15-month metric retention
Infrastructure - Enterprise
$23
per host, per month
  • On-demand price$27 per host per month
  • ✦Advanced features and administrative controls
  • ✦Machine learning-based alerts
  • ✦Live Processes
  • ✦Governance Console
DevSecOps Pro
$22
per host, per month
  • On-demand price$27 per host per month
  • ✦Includes Infrastructure Pro and Cloud Security Management Pro
  • ✦CSPM, KSPM
  • ✦Compliance mapping
  • ✦Vulnerability Management for Containers & Hosts
  • ✦CIEM
  • ✦Resource inventory and linked risks
DevSecOps Enterprise
$34
per host, per month
  • On-demand price$41 per host per month
  • Container allotment10 containers per host license
  • ✦Includes Infrastructure Enterprise and CSM Enterprise
  • ✦File integrity monitoring
  • ✦Workload Protection for Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, Docker
  • ✦Increased container allotment
APM
$31
per host, per month
  • On-demand price (with Infrastructure attached)$48 per host per month
  • Standalone annual price$36 per host per month
  • ✦End-to-end distributed tracing and service health metrics
  • ✦Universal Service Monitoring
  • ✦15-minute live trace search & analytics
  • ✦15-day historical search & analytics
  • ✦RED metrics with 15-month retention
APM Pro
$35
per host, per month
  • On-demand price (with Infrastructure attached)$54 per host per month
  • Standalone annual price$41 per host per month
  • ✦Includes APM features
  • ✦Data Streams Monitoring
APM Enterprise
$40
per host, per month
  • On-demand price (with Infrastructure attached)$60 per host per month
  • Standalone annual price$47 per host per month
  • ✦Includes APM Pro features
  • ✦Continuous Profiler
Workload Protection
$15
per host, per month
  • On-demand price$18 per host per month
  • Additional containers$0.002 per container per hour
  • ✦Deep file & process activity monitoring
  • ✦eBPF-powered analysis
  • ✦Network anomaly detection
  • ✦4 containers allotted per host license
CI Pipeline Visibility
$8
per committer, per month
  • On-demand price$12 per committer per month
  • Included spans400,000 spans per committer per month
  • Additional spans$3 per million spans per month
  • ✦Aggregate data from multiple CI providers
  • ✦Visualize performance across pipelines, stages, jobs
  • ✦Surface recurring errors and responsible commits
Continuous Testing - API Testing
$5
per 10K test runs, per month
  • On-demand price$7.20 per 10K test runs per month
  • ✦Single or multistep API tests
  • ✦Globally managed locations
Continuous Testing - Browser Testing
$12
per 1,000 test runs, per month
  • On-demand price$18 per 1,000 test runs per month
  • ✦Record tests without code
  • ✦Self-healing tests
  • ✦Screenshots and error reporting
  • ✦Globally managed locations
Continuous Testing - Mobile App Testing
$50
per 100 test runs, per month
  • On-demand price$72 per 100 test runs per month
  • ✦Run tests on real Android and iOS devices
  • ✦Record tests without code
  • ✦View screenshots and front-end errors for every step

Add-ons & extras 🧩

📦
Continuous Testing (add-on) - Additional parallelization · $79 per additional parallelization per month
Increase CI test run speed by running multiple tests at the same time; billed annually or $114 on-demand
📦
Workload Protection for AWS Fargate · $2.60 per task
Add-on for Workload Protection; $3.70 on-demand

Watch out for 🕵️

  • ⚠️Multiple independent metered dimensions (e.g., log ingest per GB, log indexing per million events, flex storage per million events, flex compute per instance-hour, log forwarding per GB outbound, APM ingested spans per GB, CI spans per million, API/Browser/Mobile test runs per unit, log rehydration per GB)
  • ⚠️Per-host pricing that scales with infrastructure size across several services (Infrastructure, DevSecOps, APM, Workload Protection)
  • ⚠️Per-committer pricing for CI-related products (CI Pipeline Visibility, Code Coverage)
  • ⚠️Container-based overages and prepaid container options with included allotments per host and hourly per-container charges
  • ⚠️Tiered/variable retention options affecting price (logs standard/flex retention, APM indexed span additional retention with different per-1M rates)
  • ⚠️On-demand vs annual vs monthly price differentials across many services (different rates for on-demand, annual, and monthly)
  • ⚠️Included allowances with overage rates (e.g., CI spans included per committer with $ per additional million; APM included GB per host with $ per GB overage; Workload Protection additional containers per hour)
  • ⚠️Contact-sales gate for Flex Compute with per instance-hour pricing and compute size options but no public rates
  • ⚠️Add-ons that increase total cost (e.g., Continuous Testing parallelization, Workload Protection for AWS Fargate)
  • ⚠️Bundled vs standalone pricing dependencies (APM pricing differs when attached to Infrastructure versus standalone annual)