--- title: "Pricing and usage | Grafana Cloud documentation" description: "Learn how Grafana Cloud pricing works, what each product bills for, and how your usage is measured." --- > For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt). # Pricing and usage Grafana Cloud bills for what you use. Each product has its own unit of measure, and this section explains what that unit is and how it’s counted. * * * Grafana Cloud pricing is usage based. You pay for the telemetry you send, the products you turn on, and the people who use them. There’s no single meter across the platform. Instead, each product bills against the unit that best reflects how you consume it, such as active series for metrics, gigabytes for logs, and host hours for Application Observability. This section explains how each product is billed, but it doesn’t list actual rates. To find the current rates, refer to the [pricing page](/pricing/). To see what you’re actually consuming right now, use the [Cost Management and Billing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/cost-management-and-billing/) app in your Grafana Cloud stack. ## Pricing principles Four ideas explain most of how Grafana Cloud pricing behaves. **You pay for consumption, not capacity.** Metering is tied to what you actually send or use during the month. Products billed on host hours meter only while a host is active, so a host that runs for part of the month costs a fraction of one that runs continuously. **Each product meters independently.** Turning on Kubernetes Monitoring doesn’t change how your logs are billed. Products that generate telemetry, such as Application Observability, bill for the product and for the telemetry it produces, and those appear as separate line items. **Your plan includes a base amount of usage.** Your monthly price covers a set amount of usage for each product. You’re billed for usage beyond that base. **Discounts apply automatically as you grow.** On the Grafana Cloud Pro plan, your effective rate drops as your usage for a product increases. Nothing needs to be enabled or renegotiated. For details, refer to [Volume discounts](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/volume-discounts/). ## Units of measure Every generally available product and the unit it bills against. Expand table | Product offering | Unit of measure | Pricing | |--------------------------------------------|----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------| | Grafana Cloud Visualization | Per monthly active user | [View pricing](/pricing/#grafana) | | Grafana Cloud Metrics | Per 1,000 billable series | [View pricing](/pricing/#metrics) | | Grafana Cloud Logs | Per GB | [View pricing](/pricing/#logs) | | Grafana Cloud Traces | Per GB | [View pricing](/pricing/#traces) | | Grafana Cloud Profiles | Per GB | [View pricing](/pricing/#profiles) | | Grafana Cloud k6 | Per virtual user hour | [View pricing](/pricing/#k6-performance-testing) | | Grafana Cloud IRM | Per monthly active user | [View pricing](/pricing/#incident-response) | | Grafana Cloud Database Observability | Per host hour | [View pricing](/pricing/#database-observability) | | Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability | Per 1,000 sessions | [View pricing](/pricing/#frontend-observability) | | Grafana Cloud Application Observability | Per host hour | [View pricing](/pricing/#application-observability) | | Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring | Per host hour | [View pricing](/pricing/#kubernetes-monitoring) | | Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring | Per container hour | [View pricing](/pricing/#kubernetes-monitoring) | | Grafana Cloud Synthetics - API Testing | Per 10,000 test executions | [View pricing](/pricing/#synthetics-api-testing) | | Grafana Cloud Synthetics - Browser Testing | Per 10,000 test executions | [View pricing](/pricing/#synthetics-browser-testing) | | Grafana Cloud Grafana Assistant | Per monthly active user | [View pricing](/pricing/#grafana-assistant) | | Grafana Cloud Assistant Investigations | Per 1 million tokens | [View pricing](/pricing/#grafana-assistant) | | Grafana Cloud Agent Observability | Per 1,000 generations | [View pricing](/pricing/) | ## Contract frameworks Contracted customers can use any generally available product in Grafana Cloud. On the *Flexible Spend Commit* contract type, also called *Prepaid Spend Commit*, you draw down your existing spend commit against any generally available products at the rates on the [pricing page](/pricing/). New products bill against the same commitment, so adopting one doesn’t require a contract amendment. On other contract types, or once you’ve consumed your entire flexible spend commitment, you use any generally available products at the same rates and pay monthly for non-committed usage. > Note > > If you’re on a monthly plan, refer to the [pricing page](/pricing/) or the [Subscription page](/profile/org/subscription) in your account portal for your pricing details. If your usage is scaling and you’re ready to commit, a committed contract can offer better unit economics than published rates. [Contact us](/contact/enterprise/?pg=pricing&plcmt=enterprise&value=volume%2Bbased%2Bpricing%2Binquiry&topic=volume-pricing) to explore committed pricing. ## How pricing works [Host hours \ Understand the host hours model shared by Application Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring, Database Observability, and the knowledge graph.](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/host-hours/) [Volume discounts \ Learn how your effective rate drops automatically as your usage grows, and how marginal tiers are calculated.](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/volume-discounts/) [Usage limits \ Review the ingestion, query, and rules limits that apply to metrics, logs, and traces.](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/usage-limits/) [Plans and stack tiers \ Compare the free, paid month-to-month, and contracted stack tiers and the limits that come with each.](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/stack-plans/) ## Pricing by product Each product has a page covering how it’s billed, the terms involved, how usage is calculated, and anything unusual about it. - [Host hours billing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/host-hours/) Learn how host hours billing works, what counts as a host, and how active hours are measured across Grafana Cloud products. - [Volume discounts](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/volume-discounts/) Learn how Grafana Cloud volume discounts automatically lower your effective rate as your usage grows. - [Usage limits](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/usage-limits/) Understand Grafana Cloud usage limits for metrics, logs, and traces. - [Plans and stack tiers](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/stack-plans/) Compare Grafana Cloud plan tiers and the stack limits that come with each. - [Metrics pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/metrics/) Learn how Grafana Cloud Metrics bills for active series and data points per minute, and how 95th percentile billing works. - [Logs pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/logs/) Learn how Grafana Cloud Logs bills for data processed, written, retained, and queried. - [Traces pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/traces/) Learn how Grafana Cloud Traces bills for data processed, written, and retained. - [Profiles pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/profiles/) Learn how Grafana Cloud Profiles bills for data processed, written, and retained. - [Users pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/users/) Learn how Grafana Cloud bills for monthly active users and what counts as an active user. - [IRM pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/irm/) Learn how Grafana Cloud IRM bills for monthly active users and what makes a user active. - [Application Observability pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/application-observability/) Learn how Application Observability bills for host hours and telemetry, and how usage is calculated. - [Kubernetes Monitoring pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/kubernetes-monitoring/) Learn how Kubernetes Monitoring bills for active host and container hours, and how usage is calculated. - [Database Observability pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/database-observability/) Learn how Database Observability bills for host hours, metrics, and logs, and how to estimate your usage. - [Knowledge graph pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/knowledge-graph/) Learn how entities and insights on the knowledge graph add active series to your metrics bill. - [Frontend Observability pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/frontend-observability/) Learn how Frontend Observability bills for sessions and telemetry, and what counts as a session. - [Synthetic Monitoring pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/synthetic-monitoring/) Learn how Synthetic Monitoring bills for test executions, and how to estimate your monthly usage. - [Performance Testing pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/performance-testing/) Learn how Performance Testing bills for virtual user hours, static IP addresses, and data retention. - [Grafana Assistant pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/assistant/) Learn how Grafana Assistant bills for active AI users and token usage, and what's included with your plan. - [Agent Observability pricing](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/agent-observability/) Learn how Grafana Agent Observability bills for generations, evaluation and guard tokens, and telemetry. ## Next steps - [Monitor your usage](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/cost-management-and-billing/understand-usage-cost/) in the Cost Management and Billing app. - [Attribute costs](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/cost-management-and-billing/cost-attributions/) to teams and services. - [Analyze and reduce costs](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/cost-management-and-billing/analyze-costs/) once you know what you’re paying for.