Datadog vs Grafana Cloud monthly cost by scenario| Scenario | Datadog | Grafana Cloud | Delta |
|---|
| Small team | $1,114 | $215 | Datadog +$899 |
| Mid-size SaaS | $3,802 | $938 | Datadog +$2,864 |
| Enterprise | $26,026 | $6,887 | Datadog +$19,139 |
Small team
Early-stage startup: 5 VMs, 3 microservices, medium log verbosity, 14-day retention, 5 dashboard users.
Result: Elastic Serverless from $54/mo to Dynatrace at $1,574/mo — up to 97% ($1,520/mo) between cheapest and most expensive. Self-hosted AWS stacks include $1,200/mo SRE overhead.
Monthly observability cost estimates by vendor for Small team| Vendor / stack | Type | Monthly | Annual |
|---|
| SigNoz Cloud | Managed | $165 | $1,980 |
| Grafana Cloud | Managed | $215 | $2,580 |
| New Relic | Managed | $341 | $4,092 |
| Datadog | Managed | $1,114 | $13,368 |
| LGTM on AWS | Self-hosted | $1,488 | $17,856 |
| SigNoz on AWS | Self-hosted | $1,559 | $18,708 |
List pricing as of May 2026. Adjust inputs in the calculator →
Mid-size SaaS
Growth-stage SaaS: 10 VMs, 1 Kubernetes cluster (50 pods), 15 services, 30-day retention, 25 users.
Result: Elastic Serverless from $209/mo to AWS CloudWatch at $4,986/mo — up to 96% ($4,777/mo) between cheapest and most expensive. Self-hosted AWS stacks include $2,500/mo SRE overhead.
Monthly observability cost estimates by vendor for Mid-size SaaS| Vendor / stack | Type | Monthly | Annual |
|---|
| SigNoz Cloud | Managed | $701 | $8,412 |
| Grafana Cloud | Managed | $938 | $11,256 |
| New Relic | Managed | $1,703 | $20,436 |
| SigNoz on AWS | Self-hosted | $3,000 | $36,000 |
| LGTM on AWS | Self-hosted | $3,365 | $40,380 |
| Datadog | Managed | $3,802 | $45,624 |
List pricing as of May 2026. Adjust inputs in the calculator →
Enterprise
Large org: 50 VMs, 3 K8s clusters (200 pods each), 60 microservices, 30-day retention, 100 users.
Result: Elastic Serverless from $1,506/mo to Dynatrace at $29,956/mo — up to 95% ($28,450/mo) between cheapest and most expensive. Self-hosted AWS stacks include $4,000/mo SRE overhead.
Monthly observability cost estimates by vendor for Enterprise| Vendor / stack | Type | Monthly | Annual |
|---|
| SigNoz Cloud | Managed | $4,760 | $57,120 |
| SigNoz on AWS | Self-hosted | $6,556 | $78,672 |
| Grafana Cloud | Managed | $6,887 | $82,644 |
| LGTM on AWS | Self-hosted | $7,497 | $89,964 |
| New Relic | Managed | $8,879 | $106,548 |
| Datadog | Managed | $26,026 | $312,312 |
List pricing as of May 2026. Adjust inputs in the calculator →
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