Grafana Cloud free tier includes Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 24 alternatives in Monitoring.

Grafana Cloud Free Tier 2026 stable

Subtypes in Monitoring: metrics_backend — stores time-indexed measurements and serves queries over them; dashboards and alerting are built on top rather than sold as the product; log_management — ingests, stores and queries log lines; the line is the stored unit and retention is a priced dimension; apm_traces — instruments application code and reports per-request latency, throughput and spans across services. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://grafana.com/pricing/, where it says: “Fully-managed, easy-to-use, highly-scalable, and cost-effective distributed tracing backend.” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 24 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-17.

Grafana Cloud's free tier offers Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support… We rate it stable. The one change we have recorded did not narrow the terms. Best for monitoring workloads — 24 alternatives available.

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⚠️ Pricing change: The free tier now includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests, and community support. The free tier includes 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces. A $19/month platform fee is now required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention. Source ↗ (discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown) View in changelog →
Tier
Free
Category
Pricing Page
Catalogue date
2026-08-14
Read from the vendor's page
2026-09-02
Last read
2026-09-17
The day we last read the vendor's page. The terms above come from our read of 2026-09-02, and we have read the page since, on 2026-09-17, without confirming them. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish — the 2026-08-14 beside this date is not one we can source to a read that confirmed them.

Free Tier Details

Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support. 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces are included. A $19/month platform fee is required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention.

We read that on 2026-09-17 from https://grafana.com/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names Grafana Cloud as "grafana cloud" and states "$0".

When You'll Outgrow Grafana Cloud's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (1 recorded)

The free tier now includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests, and community support. The free tier includes 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces. A $19/month platform fee is now required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention. Source ↗
Before: Free tier with 10K metric series, 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces, 14-day retention, 3 users
After: Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support. 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces are included. A $19/month platform fee is required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention.

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Alternatives in Monitoring

How Grafana Cloud compares against every one of the 24 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service Free Tier Stability
Grafana Cloud Free stable
skylight.io Free stable
netdata.cloud Free stable
Elastic Free OSS unrated
AppSignal Free caution
BetterStack Free stable
Middleware.io Free stable
Google Cloud Monitoring Always Free unrated
Sentry Developer stable
syagent.com Free stable
Axiom Personal stable
New Relic Free stable
Grafana Free OSS stable
Sematext Basic (Free) stable
bleemeo.com Free unrated
Simple Observability Free stable
Hyperping Free stable
360 Monitoring Lite stable
SigNoz Free OSS stable
Jaeger Free OSS source unconfirmed
Datadog Free stable
Prometheus Free OSS source unconfirmed
inspector.dev Free source unconfirmed
Xitoring.com Free risky
fivenines.io Trial risky

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Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The list above is every one of the 24 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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2026-09-30
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Grafana Cloud free?
Yes, Grafana Cloud offers a free tier: Free. Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support. 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces are included. A $19/month platform ...
What is Grafana Cloud's free tier?
Grafana Cloud's free tier is called "Free". Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support. 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces are included. A $19/month platform fee is required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention.
Is Grafana Cloud's free tier reliable?
Grafana Cloud's free tier is considered stable. The one change we have recorded did not narrow the terms. See the pricing history below.
Is Grafana Cloud's free tier good for production?
Grafana Cloud's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers Free tier includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention, and community support…, so it's a reasonable starting point. The one change we have recorded did not narrow the terms. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.
What changed in Grafana Cloud's pricing?
Grafana Cloud has had 1 recorded pricing change. Most recently: The free tier now includes access to all Grafana Cloud services with limited usage, 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests, and community support. The free tier includes 10k metric series, 50 GB logs, and 50 GB traces. A $19/month platform fee is now required for 10k active series, 50 GB ingested logs/traces, and 30 days retention. Source: https://grafana.com/pricing/ (discovered 2026-09-02).
What are the best free alternatives to Grafana Cloud?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 24 free alternatives to Grafana Cloud in Monitoring, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 18 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 6 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Grafana Cloud's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Grafana Cloud in?
Grafana Cloud is categorized under Monitoring on AgentDeals. We list 24 other Monitoring services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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