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    Datadog pricing

    Datadog is a full observability platform (infrastructure, APM, logs, security) priced per host and by usage, with a free tier for up to 5 hosts and Infrastructure Pro from $15/host/month billed annually.

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    Budget at least $15/host/month (Infrastructure Pro, annual) per monitored host, then add APM, logs or other modules as needed; the free plan's 5-host cap is only enough for a small test environment.

    Pricing. What does Datadog cost ?

    Free

    $0

    Permanent free plan

    • Up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention

    Infrastructure Pro

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    $15/mo

    Billed annually · $18/mo billed monthly.

    • Priced per host per month; 15-month data retention; 100 custom metrics and 500 custom events per host

    Infrastructure Enterprise

    $23/mo

    Billed annually · $27/mo billed monthly.

    • Priced per host per month; machine learning alerts, live processes, governance console; 200 custom metrics and 1,000 custom events per host

    Official pricingChecked on September 25, 2026

    Datadog's billing traps

    Before you pay

    On-demand (month-to-month) pricing is notably higher than the annual commitment across modules (e.g. Infrastructure Pro is $18/host on-demand vs $15/host annual), and APM, logs, feature flags, code coverage and AI credits are all billed as separate add-ons on top of the host price.

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