# Datadog Logs pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** Quote-only — no self-serve price published.
**Domain:** datadoghq.com
**Free tier:** No · 14-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Logstash, PagerDuty, Slack, Terraform
**Best for:** Enterprises already using Datadog for APM or infrastructure monitoring; Security-sensitive workloads requiring HIPAA/FedRAMP; Teams needing petabyte-scale log analytics with cost-tiered storage

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ingest | Quote-only | — | custom | $0.10/GB ingested or scanned (annual) or $0.10/GB on-demand. Covers processing, enrichment, live tail, archiving, and dynamic routing. No flat monthly price — pure usage-based. | datadoghq.com |
| Standard Indexing | Quote-only | — | custom | $1.70/million log events/month (annual) or $2.55 on-demand. 15-day default retention; 3, 7, 30+ day options available. Real-time exploration, alerting, Watchdog Insights included. | datadoghq.com |
| Flex Storage | Quote-only | — | custom | $0.05/million events stored/month (annual) or $0.075 on-demand. Up to 15-month retention for historical investigations and compliance. | datadoghq.com |
| Flex Logs Starter | Quote-only | — | custom | $0.60/million events stored/month (annual) or $0.90 on-demand. Retention 3, 6, 12, or 15 months. Includes bundled Starter Compute for logs below 2B events/month. | datadoghq.com |

**Key features:** Logging Without Limits — ingest all logs, index selectively, rehydrate from archive on demand; Flex Logs — independent retention and query capacity scaling to control costs at high volume; 800+ OOTB MITRE ATT&CK detection rules for security monitoring (PCI/HIPAA coverage); AI-powered Watchdog Insights for automatic anomaly and pattern detection; Unified correlation across logs, metrics, APM traces, and security signals in one UI.

**Plan limits:** No free tier — pure usage-based billing; Ingest: $0.10/GB (annual) or $0.15/GB (on-demand); Standard Indexing: $1.70/million events (annual); Flex Storage: $0.05/million events stored/month; 15-day default retention on Standard Indexing; up to 15 months on Flex.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/?product=log-management fetched 2026-06-14. HIPAA/BAA confirmed via Datadog Trust Center. Usage-based model with no flat tier; all plans use 'custom' billingModel. Annual commitment prices listed; on-demand rates are 1.5x annual.
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