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Datadog
Monitoring for everything at once
Free plan availableDeveloper ToolsSince 2010
from $8/moVisit datadoghq.com
What Datadog is
Infrastructure metrics, APM, logs, synthetics and security monitoring in one platform. Powerful, and famously easy to overspend on.
What Datadog has cost
We have read this pricing page 7 times since Jul 2024, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $8†Jul 2024 · CI Pipeline Visibility · 1 reading · archived page
- $8†Jan 2025 · 1 reading · archived page
- $15/mo*Jul 2025 · Pro · 1 reading · archived page
The entry plan changed name here, from Pro to Code Coverage. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.
$8†Jul 2026 – Sept 2026 · Code Coverage · 4 readings · archived page
* That reading is the effective monthly cost when paying for a year up front, which is what the page published at the time.
† The page showed this figure beside a monthly/annual switch and did not say which one it belonged to, so we publish the number without claiming a billing period. Readings like this are shown but never compared, which is why they never produce a price change.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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Datadog alternatives
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Where Datadog sits on price
Entry prices across Developer Tools, cheapest first.
13 of these 13 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 13 verified prices in Developer Tools. 1 more tool in this category does not publish an entry price and is not plotted. Showing the 10 cheapest.
Datadog pricing questions
- How much does Datadog cost?
- Datadog starts at $8 a month on its Code Coverage plan. That figure was read from datadoghq.com's own pricing page on 25 September 2026.
- Does Datadog have a free plan?
- Datadog offers a free trial, and the vendor also publishes a free entry tier. Check which of the two you are signing up for — the trial ends, the free tier does not.
- What is Datadog used for?
- Infrastructure metrics, APM, logs, synthetics and security monitoring in one platform. Powerful, and famously easy to overspend on. People mainly use it to monitor infrastructure, search logs, trace requests.
- What are the best alternatives to Datadog?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, Sentry. GitHub starts lower at $4 a month. GitHub, Vercel, Supabase and Sentry publish a free plan.