Grafana Cloud

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Grafana Cloud Compute

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grafana.com/pricing/ · cloud VM · compute/grafana-cloud · JSON · compare

Free tier	Free plan, quoted: 'Always free Always', '$0', 'No credit card required', 'Actually useful free tier with access to everything that Grafana Cloud has to offer'. Metrics: 'Limited to 10k active series per month', '14 days retention'. Logs: 'Limited to 50 GB ingested per month', '14 day retention'. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-free
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email no card and no payment method: the free plan states 'No credit card required', so no hold exists. The evidence does not say which identifier the account is created with, so whether an email alone suffices is not stated; debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated
Limits	volume-quota 10,000 active series is the stop for metrics: a sidecar-heavy Kubernetes stack reports 50,000 or more, and cardinality is counted per active series per month, so one label with unbounded values exhausts it. source 10,000 active series is the stop for metrics: a sidecar-heavy Kubernetes stack reports 50,000 or more, and cardinality is counted per active series per month, so one label with unbounded values exhausts it.
Binding	volume-quota 10,000 active series is the stop for metrics: a sidecar-heavy Kubernetes stack reports 50,000 or more, and cardinality is counted per active series per month, so one label with unbounded values exhausts it.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	50 GB of logs a month with 14-day retention is the largest free log store found by two orders of magnitude, and it pairs with any free compute tier as the place a crawler writes its errors instead of a paid service.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The free plan covers hosted Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and k6, so one account yields a metrics store, a log store and a load tester. Retention of 14 days means this is an observation window, not a data store. Traces, profiles and k6 limits are stated on the page per product and were not all read; only the metrics and logs figures above are verified.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	grafana.com/pricing/	Free plan: 'Always free', '$0', 'No credit card required'; metrics 'Limited to 10k active series per month' with '14 days retention'; logs 'Limited to 50 GB ingested per month' with '14 day retention', quoted
2026-10-22	grafana.com/pricing/	free plan includes 'All Grafana Cloud services, with usage limits', 'Adaptive Telemetry, AI Assistant' and '14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests'

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated