Prometheus free tier includes Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting… Not verified — the page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read. Compare with 24 alternatives in Monitoring.

Prometheus Free Tier 2026

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. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://prometheus.io/, where it says: “Instrument, collect, store, and query your metrics for alerting, dashboarding, and other use cases.” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 24 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-02.

Prometheus's free tier offers Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting… The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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Tier
Free OSS
Category
Pricing Page
Catalogue date
2026-08-22
Last read
2026-09-02
The day we last read the vendor's page. Our last read of it, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. We hold no confirmation of the terms we publish — the 2026-08-22 beside this date is not one we can source to a read that confirmed them.

Free Tier Details

Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting. Pull-based metrics collection, PromQL query language, multi-dimensional data model

When You'll Outgrow Prometheus's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

No recorded pricing changes for Prometheus — but the page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so nothing we have read describes these terms. Treat the empty history as a statement about our records, not about this vendor's pricing.

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Alternatives in Monitoring

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

Left out of this list: UptimeRobot (shares no subtype with this product), Pulsetic (shares no subtype with this product), Healthchecks.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusCake (shares no subtype with this product), PagerDuty (shares no subtype with this product), Cronitor (shares no subtype with this product), Uptimia (shares no subtype with this product), OnlineOrNot (shares no subtype with this product), incident.io (shares no subtype with this product), StatusPile (shares no subtype with this product), assertible.com (shares no subtype with this product), Core Web Vitals History (none of this category's subtypes apply), deadmanssnitch.com (shares no subtype with this product), downtimemonkey.com (shares no subtype with this product), economize.cloud (none of this category's subtypes apply), incidenthub.cloud (shares no subtype with this product), linkok.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), loader.io (none of this category's subtypes apply), MonitorMonk (shares no subtype with this product), OntarioNet.ca CN Test (none of this category's subtypes apply), pagecrawl.io (shares no subtype with this product), pagertree.com (shares no subtype with this product), phare.io (shares no subtype with this product), pingbreak.com (shares no subtype with this product), Pingmeter.com (shares no subtype with this product), pingpong.one (shares no subtype with this product), robusta.dev (none of this category's subtypes apply), Servervana (shares no subtype with this product), sitesure.net (shares no subtype with this product), statusgator.com (shares no subtype with this product), SweetUptime (shares no subtype with this product), UptimeObserver.com (shares no subtype with this product), uptimetoolbox.com (shares no subtype with this product), Wachete (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in Monitoring, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

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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.
date
2026-09-30
query_key
alternatives:Monitoring:Prometheus
seed
b2a02b8caafe0451cae41d8dde12ed249dd2b4bd77a2f48698270688920b44e0
tie_count
19

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Prometheus free?
We cannot confirm that today. The page we cite for Prometheus states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02. Our stored record says Prometheus offers a free tier: Free OSS. Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting. Pull-based metrics collection, PromQL query language, multi-dimensional data model. We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
What is Prometheus's free tier?
We cannot confirm that today. The page we cite for Prometheus states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02. Our stored record calls Prometheus's free tier "Free OSS". Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated time-series monitoring and alerting. Pull-based metrics collection, PromQL query language, multi-dimensional data model. We have not confirmed these terms against the source we cite, so treat them as unverified.
Is Prometheus's free tier reliable?
We cannot say. The page we cite for Prometheus states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02. Nothing we have read describes these terms, so we are not publishing a stability judgement for this vendor until that is fixed.
Is Prometheus's free tier good for production?
The page we cite for Prometheus states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02. We cannot confirm what this offer provides today, so we are not recommending it for production or for anything else until we can.
What changed in Prometheus's pricing?
We hold no recorded pricing changes for Prometheus, but the page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so that is a statement about our records rather than a positive signal.
What are the best free alternatives to Prometheus?
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 Prometheus in Monitoring, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 19 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 5 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Prometheus'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 Prometheus in?
Prometheus 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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