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Updated 2026-06-25ingest based
New Relic pricing: what it really costs
One usage pool priced by data ingested, plus a per-seat charge for full users.
Best for: Teams with modest data volume and few power users who want everything in one bucket.
The cost gotcha
The 100 GB free tier feels generous until a couple of chatty services blow past it, and the real cost is usually the $99-per-full-user charge, not the data. Standard caps you at 5 full users, so growing teams get pushed to a quote.
Every billing axis
| Data ingest | $0.40 / GB (Standard) | First 100 GB/mo free; all telemetry (logs, metrics, traces) shares this one rate |
| Data Plus | $0.60 / GB | Adds 90-day retention and higher query limits |
| Full platform user | $99 / user / mo | First full user is $10; Standard tier caps at 5 full users |
| Basic / core users | Free / $49 | Basic users are free; core users $49 on higher tiers |
Source: newrelic.com · last checked 2026-06-25
Where it lands vs the rest
25 hosts, 300 GB/mo, 10 users. New Relic highlighted.
| Tool | Est. monthly | How it adds up |
|---|---|---|
| SigNozcheapest here | $90/mo | Data (300 GB x $0.3): $90 |
| Grafana Cloud | $264/mo | Platform fee: $19 · Data (300 GB x $0.55): $165 · Seats (10 x $8): $80 |
| Datadog | $405/mo | Hosts (25 x $15): $375 · Data (300 GB x $0.1): $30 |
| New Relic | $971/mo | Data (200 GB after 100 GB free x $0.4): $80 · Seats (9 after 1 free x $99): $891 |