# Grafana k6 Cloud pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Free). Among the 7 load testing we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** grafana.com
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA No · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipelines, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana Dashboards, Elasticsearch, Amazon CloudWatch
**Best for:** DevOps teams already on Grafana stack; shift-left CI/CD performance testing; developer-owned load testing
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | — | flat | 500 virtual user hours (VUh) per month included. No credit card required. Community support. Access to all Grafana Cloud free-tier features. | grafana.com |
| Pro | $19 | — | flat | $19/month platform fee plus $0.15 per VUh (volume discounts available). First 500 VUh/month included (shared with Free tier allocation). 8x5 email support. Usage-metered above the free allocation; unit rate $0.15/VUh. | grafana.com |
| Enterprise | Quote-only | — | custom | Annual commit minimum $25,000/year. VUh rate as low as $0.05. Supports up to 1 million concurrent VUs. Deployment options: Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud. Premium support. | grafana.com |

**Key features:** Open-source k6 core with cloud execution and distributed testing from 20+ global locations; Browser and protocol-level testing in one tool; Cloud Insights for automated performance issue detection; Native integration with Grafana observability stack for correlated load + metrics analysis.

**Plan limits:** Free: 500 VU hours/month, community support only; Pro: $19/month platform fee + $0.15/VU hour, 8x5 email support; Enterprise: minimum $25K/year commit, as low as $0.05/VU hour, up to 1M concurrent VUs.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-15
Provenance: https://grafana.com/products/cloud/k6/ and https://grafana.com/pricing/ fetched directly 2026-06-15. Integrations from https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/misc/integrations/ fetched 2026-06-15. No HIPAA/BAA mention on pricing pages.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/load-testing/grafana-k6/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Grafana k6 Cloud's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-15 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/load-testing/grafana-k6/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl