Grafana Cloud
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- caveatGrafana Cloud (Compute)
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-01duplicate
- caveatGrafana Cloud (free)
Developer servicesfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-01
Grafana Cloud (Compute)
Compute- Free allowance
- 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'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota10k active metric series per month (a count of series, not bytes); 50 GB of logs, 50 GB of traces and 50 GB of profiles ingested per month
- Evidence
- documented21 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-01checked 2026-10-31 (live); stale on 2026-12-01
| 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 mixed; metered on uploaded-bytes; perpetual-free |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
3 active users per month and 500 k6 virtual user hours per month on the free plan. |
| Binding | volume-quota Metrics stop at 10k active series per month on the free plan; logs, traces and profiles stop at 50 GB ingested each per month. |
| Identity | email No credit card required on the free plan; the sign-up page offers Google, GitHub, Microsoft or Amazon sign-in, or an account form. |
| Egress | not stated |
| Per-object cap | 256kb per log line (max_line_size, not modifiable) and 5MB per trace (max_bytes_per_trace) by default |
| Retention | 14 days for metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6 performance tests on the free plan (14 days) |
| Interface | rest Every Grafana instance exposes an HTTP API; the Grafana Cloud API (GCOM) manages the resources of a stack programmatically |
| Tooling | the hosted Grafana UI, the Grafana HTTP API and the Grafana Cloud API |
| Composes with | A hosted log, metric and trace store for scripts on free compute: 50 GB of logs a month with 14 days of history, queried from the same hosted Grafana. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Duplicate of dev-services/grafana-cloud, which records the same free plan. One account yields hosted metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6 performance tests; retention of 14 days makes it an observation window, not an archive. |
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Evidence 21
| 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' |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/products/cloud/free-tier/ | Grafana Cloud Free is a managed observability platform, not a machine |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | metrics are counted in active series, not bytes |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | logs, traces and profiles are metered on GB ingested per month |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free plan figures of the stated text are on the pricing page as read |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/us | a log line is capped at 256kb and the cap cannot be modified |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/us | a trace is capped at 5MB by default |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free plan keeps metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6 tests for 14 days |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/developer-resources/api-refer | the Grafana Cloud API manages stack resources programmatically |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/developer-resources/api-refer | every Grafana instance has an HTTP API |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/developer-resources/api-refer | the Grafana Cloud API is documented for programmatic access |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | free metrics are limited to 10k active series a month |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | free logs, traces and profiles are each limited to 50 GB ingested a month |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free plan keeps data for 14 days |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/us | a log line is capped at 256kb |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | free k6 testing is limited to 500 virtual user hours a month; the same page limits free visualization to 3 active users |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/auth/sign-up/create-user/ | the sign-up page offers Google, GitHub, Microsoft or Amazon sign-in, or an account form |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free product cards state that no credit card is required |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | free logs are limited to 50 GB ingested a month |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free plan costs nothing and has no charges |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "observability-free-tier","free_tier_kind": "perpetual-free","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null}} |
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Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
Grafana Cloud (free)
Developer services- Free allowance
- Free plan at USD 0 with no credit card: all Grafana Cloud services with usage limits, including 10k active metric series, 50 GB of logs, 50 GB of traces and 50 GB of profiles ingested per month, 500 k6 virtual user hours per month, 3 active users and 14 days of retention; a new account starts...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota50 GB of logs, 50 GB of traces and 50 GB of profiles ingested per month; 10k active metric series per month (a count of series, not bytes)
- Evidence
- documented16 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-01checked 2026-10-31 (live); stale on 2026-12-01
| Free tier | Free plan at USD 0 with no credit card: all Grafana Cloud services with usage limits, including 10k active metric series, 50 GB of logs, 50 GB of traces and 50 GB of profiles ingested per month, 500 k6 virtual user hours per month, 3 active users and 14 days of retention; a new account starts with a 14-day trial and then moves to the free plan unit mixed; metered on uploaded-bytes; Logs, traces and profiles are counted in GB ingested, metrics in active series and k6 tests in virtual user hours. Ingestion past a free limit is discarded rather than billed, according to a Grafana community forum answer. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
3 active users per month and 500 k6 virtual user hours per month on the free plan. |
| Binding | volume-quota Ingestion past 10k active series or 50 GB of logs in a month is discarded until the month resets; metrics with many label values reach the series count first. |
| Identity | email No credit card required on the free plan; the sign-up page offers Google, GitHub, Microsoft or Amazon sign-in, or an account form. Account creation starts a 14-day trial, after which the account moves to the free plan; trial usage is never billed. |
| Egress | not stated: the pricing page prices ingestion and retention and names no charge for querying data back |
| Per-object cap | 256kb per log line (max_line_size, not modifiable) and 5MB per trace (max_bytes_per_trace) by default |
| Retention | 14 days for metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6 performance tests on the free plan (14 days) |
| Interface | rest Every Grafana instance exposes an HTTP API; the Grafana Cloud API (GCOM) manages stack resources; Tempo exposes an API for pushing and querying traces; Synthetic Monitoring has a REST API |
| Tooling | the hosted Grafana UI, the Grafana HTTP API, the Grafana Cloud API, and the Tempo and Synthetic Monitoring APIs |
| Composes with | A hosted log, metric and trace store for scripts on free compute: 50 GB of logs a month with 14 days of history, queried from the same hosted Grafana. |
| Reliability | ingestion past a free limit is discarded for the rest of the month rather than billed (community forum answer) |
| Notes | The same free plan is also recorded as compute/grafana-cloud. Retention of 14 days makes this an observation window, not an archive. |
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Evidence 16
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free plan costs nothing and has no charges |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free plan includes all Grafana Cloud services with usage limits |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free plan keeps metrics, logs, traces, profiles and k6 tests for 14 days |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | free metrics are limited to 10k active series a month |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | free logs, traces and profiles are each limited to 50 GB ingested a month |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | the free product cards state that no credit card is required |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | free k6 performance testing is limited to 500 virtual user hours a month |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/pricing/ | free visualization is limited to 3 active users a month |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/products/cloud/free-tier/ | the free tier is a no-cost managed platform with no credit card |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/auth/sign-up/create-user/ | the sign-up page offers Google, GitHub, Microsoft or Amazon sign-in, or an account form |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/get-started/create-account/ | account creation starts a trial, after which the account moves to the free plan with usage restrictions |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/cost-management-and-billing/u | trial usage is never billed and the account moves to the free plan when the trial completes |
| 2026-10-31 | community.grafana.com/t/what-happens-when-my-usage-exceed-th | a forum answer states that ingestion past the free limits is discarded |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/us | a log line is capped at 256kb and the cap cannot be modified |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/pricing-and-usage/us | a trace is capped at 5MB by default |
| 2026-10-31 | grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/developer-resources/api-refer | the Grafana Cloud API manages stack resources programmatically |
Unknown values 1
- egress metered: egress metering was not published