Datadog Pricing
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Brian Hanuska
Architect at SEI Investments
Pricing and licensing is fairly complicated. A GB for .1 sounds great, however, once you put all 16 or so prices together, it adds up fast. A cost model sheet on the main site would be very helpful.
View full review »The price of Datadog is reasonable. Other solutions are more expensive, such as AppDynamics.
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Datadog
March 2024
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The solution is fairly priced but history and log storage can get costly depending on your needs.
I rate the cost a four out of ten.
Datadog would've cost around $850 a month based on the loads we were doing, and you could estimate roughly what you would be paying monthly. I liked their pricing model. It was flexible, so you only paid for what you used. I rate Datadog pricing eight out of 10.
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reviewer2000466
Senior Cloud Engineer, Vice President of Monitoring at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I'd advise users to be careful with logs and the APM as those are the ones that can get expensive fast.
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reviewer2000457
Staff Cloud Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
We'd advise new users to be careful with logs, and the APM as those are the ones that can get expensive fast.
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reviewer2003943
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Our company set up the product for us, so the engineers didn't need to be involved with pricing.
The pricing structure isn't very clear to engineers.
View full review »This solution is budget friendly.
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reviewer2002326
API Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I will get informed about this, I have no idea about costs as an API developer. But I get curious about it
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Richard Chennault
Senior Director with 10,001+ employees
It didn't scale well from the cost perspective. We had a custom package deal.
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reviewer2004186
Senior IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Users need to be aware of licensing control. With autodiscovery, the product can begin to come at a high cost.
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reviewer2002896
VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I would recommend Datadog to others.
View full review »The licensing is a bit complicated. When you pay for it on a note basis, that's perfectly fine. However, when you put log analytics on top of it, it's based on traffic. This is actually an issue. It gets complicated.
JK
reviewer1318287
IT Test Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We have a four-year contract with Datadog, and the solution is pay-as-you-use.
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reviewer2045070
Software Engineering Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
I don't have any insights into pricing.
View full review »We started with on-demand pricing as we were re-writing our product, and we weren't sure about the total usage. After we went into production and released the product, we experienced a price surge. Fortunately, our Datadog account manager reached out to us and suggested a monthly subscription, which is what we'll be switching to.
I'd advise keeping an eye on the usage and possibly setting up some monitoring on price. We didn't have much of a setup cost; we started with a free trial and continued with on-demand after the trial ended.
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reviewer2004336
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'd advise new users not to start off by sending logs.
The licensing model is better, however, if they had the option to block consumption in the Infra and APM, that would help to keep better control of costs.
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reviewer1996494
Director of Software Engineering at Code Climate
The pricing should be less of a surprise. They should allow us to cap costs which would lead to less frustration.
We need better documentation on the pricing.
It might be helpful if they added a pricing simulator.
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reviewer2044965
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Datadog is very expensive for smaller organizations. The pricing model might be restrictive until the organization reaches a certain size.
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reviewer1539903
Director of Cloud Operations at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It has a module-based pricing model.
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reviewer2000271
Software Developer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
I don’t handle pricing or licensing aspects.
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reviewer2003781
Product SRE at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I don't give advice regarding that.
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reviewer2003784
Lead Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Pricing can be a bit of a sell internally. We've found it to be worth it, though.
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reviewer2002893
Lead Software Engineer at a retailer with 51-200 employees
I'm not sure what the exact pricing is.
View full review »I'd advise users to negotiate rates. Datadog's off-the-shelf rates are pretty high.
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reviewer1994838
Software Engineer at Enable Medicine
It is quite expensive, especially if you don't know how the pricing works.
View full review »My advice is to understand what number of hosts and data you want to commit to. Beware that usage-based billing is both a blessing and a curse. It is easy to run up a large bill, so become familiar with the cost of each piece of your bill and use the metrics they supply to estimate and monitor your bill.
I have had good luck with their support team helping us to figure out the correct commit levels. Their account support is excellent in this regard. I have heard their sales team can be aggressive, but I have not experienced it personally.
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Mark
Site Reliability Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Pricing and licensing are reasonable for what they give you. You get the first five hosts free, which is fun to play around with. Then it's about four dollars a month per host, which is very affordable for what you get out of it. We have a lot of hosts that we put a lot of custom metrics into, and every host gives you an allowance for the number of custom metrics. We have not had a problem with it.
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reviewer2000463
Technical Lead at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I can't recommend the licensing.
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reviewer2000271
Software Developer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
I don’t handle the licensing or pricing.
View full review »My advice is to really keep an eye on your overage costs, as they can spiral really fast. We turned on some additional span measures and didn't realize until it was too late that it had generated a ton.
Frankly, we love the visibility it gives us into our applications, but it is a bit cumbersome to ensure we are paying for the right stuff. Overall, the cost is worth it, as it helps us keep system-critical applications up and running, and reduces our detection and correction times significantly.
Pricing seemed easy until the bill came in and some things were not accounted for. The issue may have been that we didn't realize what was being accounted for, such as the number of servers and the number of logs being ingested.
Datadog had really good pre-sale reps that work with us but need to make sure all the details are covered.
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Huu Huy TRUONG
Project senior at Moka Cloud factory
The solution's pricing depends on project volume.
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reviewer2004198
Devops Engineer II at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
It is somewhat expensive compared to open-source options.
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reviewer2004069
support Eng
It's a little pricy yet worth it.
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Nagendra K
Lead Blockchain and Back-End Developer at Torum Technology
For some features, it was quite expensive. For example, APM and RAM, and Session Replays. We are using it in a very limited way and are not using it for every microservice. We are using it for a minimal budget. As we are at an exploratory phase and are doing pay-as-you-go. Once we feel confident, we will likely get a yearly license.
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reviewer2003355
DevOps Engineer at a printing company with 51-200 employees
Ensure you have your ingestion pipelines dialed in, or you'll likely spend more than you were expecting.
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Attila Mate Kovacs
Senior Cyber Security Expert at a security firm with 11-50 employees
With Datadog, it's a monthly fee. They prefer monthly subscriptions.
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Pablo Albornoz
Co-Founder at Exeo IT
I'm not sure if the license is expensive or cheap. It's managed by the customer and we've recently come on board.
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reviewer1777992
AWS Cloud Architect Consultant at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
While it is an expensive product, I would rate the pricing level at four out of five.
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DusanJovanovic
Software Engineer at a media company with 51-200 employees
Pricing seems reasonable. It depends on the size of your organization, the size of your infrastructure, and what portion of your overall business costs go toward infrastructure. It is hard to say without looking at all of this.
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reviewer2004183
Principal Software Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
I have no details about the pricing.
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reviewer2003214
Sr. Director of Software Engineering at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The pricing is a bit confusing. However, the RUM session replay, in general, is very inexpensive compared to whole solutions.
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Abdulla Pathan
Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate
The price is better than some competing products.
View full review »Pricing is somewhat affordable compared to other solutions but in order to really lower the costs of other products you need to plan very carefully your resources usage, otherwise, it can get expensive real quick.
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reviewer2045049
Product Manager, Delivery Engineering at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would advise others to be cautious around custom metrics and be picky when setting them up.
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reviewer1034529
Performance Testing Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I do not have knowledge of the licensing costs.
As Datadog is a bit on the expensive side, I would recommend it for simple, uncomplicated, solutions.
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RomainGiacalone
Software Engineering Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Datadog does not provide any free plans to use the solution. When I start with a proof of concept it would be sensible to have a free plan to test the tool and check whether it fits the requirements of the project. Before the production stage, it is always good to have a free plan with some limited features, number of requests, or logs.
View full review »The cost is high and this can be justified if the scale of the environment is big.
Datadog needs to provide better pricing for large customers.
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Brendan Buono
Software Engineer at Lovepop
The pricing and licensing through AWS Marketplace has been good. It would be nice if it was cheaper, but their pricing is reasonable for what it is. Sometimes, for their newer features, they charge as if it's fully fleshed out, even though it is a newer feature and it may have less stuff than their other items. So, if they would scale the pricing appropriately as they add more stuff to it, that would makes sense. The pricing should reflect the abilities of the features.
View full review »Pricing overall in this segment has standardized in the last several years.
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reviewer1775157
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Sometimes it's very hard to project how much it will cost for the monthly subscription for the next month when you add certain features. Having better visibility of the cost would give a better experience.
There are not any additional costs for the use of this solution.
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reviewer1968768
Site Reliability Engineer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
Licensing is based on the retention period of logs and metrics.
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SeniorSofcae
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The pricing came up a bit compared to their competitors. It is not that the price has risen, but that the competitors have gone down. They keep adding more features that I would have expected to be baked in at a more nominal price. I have been increasingly dissatisfied with the pricing, but not enough to jump ship. It is still pretty good.
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reviewer1533330
Project Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I am not satisfied with its licensing. Its payment is based on the exported data, and there was an explosion of the data for three or four weeks. My customer was not alerted, and there was no way for them to see that there has been an explosion of data. They got a big invoice for one or two months. The pricing model of Datadog is based on the data. The customer was quite surprised about not being alerted about this explosion of data. They should provide some kind of alert when there is an increase in usage.
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reviewer1530834
Director at a media company with 11-50 employees
Our licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis.
It's quite expensive. They could improve the price by making it affordable.
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Director9da2
Director of Engineering at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
It costs the same amount it would if we were hosting it ourselves, so we are incredibly happy with the cost.
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Initial cost was a couple of days of work, day to day nothing really.
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Buyer's Guide
Datadog
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Datadog. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.