- Free allowance
- No recurring free tier on OpenObserve Cloud: a 14-day free trial of the Pay As You Go plan with no credit card required to start; afterwards USD 0.50 per GB ingested and USD 0.01 per GB queried, with 15 months of metrics and 30 days of logs, traces and RUM included
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clamped14-day trial window, then pay as you go
- Evidence
- documented13 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | No recurring free tier on OpenObserve Cloud: a 14-day free trial of the Pay As You Go plan with no credit card required to start; afterwards USD 0.50 per GB ingested and USD 0.01 per GB queried, with 15 months of metrics and 30 days of logs, traces and RUM included unit none; metered on wall-clock; The Cloud free tier was discontinued on 2 June 2025 and replaced by usage-based pricing with a 14-day trial for new accounts. The repository README still says the Cloud free tier includes up to 50 GB a day of ingestion, which the pricing page and the policy post do not; the 50 GB a day free allowance on the pricing page belongs to the self-hosted Enterprise edition. |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) 14-day trial window, then pay as you go source
- volume-quota USD 0.50 per GB ingested and USD 0.01 per GB queried after the trial source
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| Binding | retention-clamped The 14-day trial ends before any quota matters, and a valid credit card is needed to continue on Pay As You Go. |
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| Identity | email The pricing FAQ states no credit card is required to start the 14-day trial; a valid credit card on file is needed after the trial, as the policy post states for former free-tier accounts. The sign-up fields are unverified: the cloud sign-in page is behind a login wall. |
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| Egress | queries are billed at USD 0.01 per GB queried; no charge on data read out other than the query volume is stated on the pages read |
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| Per-object cap | unverified: no per-event or per-log-line size is stated on the pages read |
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| Retention | 15 months of metrics and 30 days of logs, traces, RUM and other non-metrics data are included by default; further 30-day periods of non-metrics retention cost USD 0.02 per GB (30 days) |
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| Interface | rest REST APIs for ingestion, search and management on the account's own host, authenticated by HTTP basic authentication with a base64 encoded user and password. |
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| Tooling | the web app and the REST APIs. Last resort, after every hosted offer: the Open Source edition (AGPL-3.0) is free forever and the Self-Hosted Enterprise edition is free up to 50 GB of ingestion a day, and the user installs and runs the server on a rented or free machine. |
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| Composes with | Logs, metrics and traces of a free-hosted app in one place for 14 days, then pay per GB with no seat or host fees. |
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| Reliability | After the trial the account needs a credit card on file and is billed on usage; the Cloud free tier was discontinued with a 30-day exemption in June 2025. |
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| Notes | Cloud Professional is the only Cloud plan listed; the Enterprise plan is custom priced. |
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| Evidence note | documented The trial, the prices and the discontinued free tier are quoted from first-party pages; the README line that contradicts them is recorded as evidence. No account was opened. |
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