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Is Grafana Cloud still free?
Yes Yes. Grafana Cloud had a free tier on the vendor's public page on 2026-10-05.
The always-free plan includes 10k active metric series, 50 GB each of logs, traces and profiles per month and 3 active users, with no credit card required.
Free tier limits and listed figures
| Item | Value on the vendor page |
|---|---|
| Metrics | 10k active series per month |
| Logs | 50 GB ingested per month |
| Traces | 50 GB ingested per month |
| Profiles | 50 GB ingested per month |
| Visualization users | 3 active users per month |
| IRM users | 3 active users per month |
| Synthetics | 100k API test executions and 10k browser test executions per month |
| k6 performance testing | 500 virtual user hours per month |
| Frontend Observability | 50k sessions per month |
| Retention | 14 days |
Card and commercial use
- Credit card required
- No
- Commercial use allowed
- not stated by the vendor
Gotchas
- Retention is 14 days
- Limited to 3 active users per month
- Behaviour after the free limits are reached is not stated on the pricing page
Recent change
No recent change is noted on the vendor page that was read.
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Source
Vendor page read by software on 2026-10-05, written out as text so you can copy it into your browser:
https://grafana.com/pricing/