The average Datadog bill grows 3x faster than your infrastructure
Calculate your true observability costs — and see what you could be paying on Grafana Cloud, Elastic, New Relic, Dynatrace, or open source.
Your Environment
We'll calculate your current cost and show alternatives
VMs, containers, or Kubernetes pods being monitored
Daily log ingest across all services
Number of unique custom metric time series
Millions of APM spans/traces per month
How long you retain metrics and logs (longer = more expensive)
Monthly Cost (Datadog)
$3.2K
50 hosts, 10 GB/day logs
Annual Total
$38.0K
At current usage levels
Cost Per Host / Month
$63
All-in cost divided by host count
Cost Per GB of Logs
$0
Monthly log cost per GB per day
Cost Breakdown
Platform Comparison (same usage)
⚠ Hidden Costs Not Included Above
- • Overage charges — exceeding committed usage tiers can 2–5x your bill overnight
- • Per-seat pricing — dashboard users, alert managers, and on-call staff often charged separately
- • Support tiers — enterprise support can add 15–25% to base cost
- • Professional services — onboarding, custom dashboards, training
- • Committed-use penalties — exiting annual contracts often costs 50–100% of remaining term
Open Source Alternative (Prometheus + Grafana + Loki)
Estimated self-hosted infrastructure cost only — engineering time not included.
Monthly Cost
$332
vs. Datadog
90% cheaper
Annual Savings
$34.1K
You're spending $38.0K/year on monitoring
We'll identify the top 3 cost drivers in your observability stack and give you a 90-day reduction plan.
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