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Axiom vs Grafana Cloud

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Grafana Cloud

$228/yr

24% less than Axiom

Who has a free plan
  • Axiomhas a free plan
  • Grafana Cloudhas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Axiom

With trade-offs

multi-day

On price, Grafana Cloud wins. If you would rather build it, Axiom is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONAxiomMonitoringGrafana CloudMonitoring
Monthly billing$25/moPersonal$19/moPro
Per year$300/yr$228/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionUsage-based
Free tier500 GB telemetry loading/month; 10 GB-hours querying/month; 25 GB stored; 30-day retention; unlimited users and integrations10,000 active metric series/month; 50 GB logs, 50 GB traces and 50 GB profiles/month; 14-day retention; 100,000 API and 10,000 browser synthetic executions/month
Additional costsCloud is $25/month before metered telemetry usage; optional enterprise controls are separately priced, including SSO ($100/month), directory sync ($100/month), RBAC ($50/month) and audit log access ($50/month)Pro adds usage charges beyond the $19 platform fee: metrics are billed per 1,000 active series and logs/traces have separate processing, write, retention and query meters; separate stacks can each carry a platform fee
Can you rebuild it?With trade-offsmulti-dayWorth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sitting
Free alternatives
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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