New Relic Pricing
- Development pricing
- $99/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
New Relic pricing starts at $99 a month, which is $1,188 over twelve months. There is a free plan.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
New Relic pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free with 100 GB/month ingest and one full platform user; then $0.40/GB |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $99 a month, or $1,188 a year |
| How that is reached | Standard at $99 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | usage based |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every New Relic plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as usage based. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | Perpetual. 100 GB ingest/month, one full platform user, unlimited basic users |
| Standard | $99 | per month | per additional full platform user - First full platform user $10. Maximum 5. Core users $49 each |
| Pro | $349 | per month | per full platform user - Annual commitment. $418.80 on monthly pay as you go. Unlimited users |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Negotiated | Adds FedRAMP Moderate and HIPAA eligibility |
| Data ingest | $0.40 | per usage | Per GB beyond the free 100 GB. Data Plus is $0.60/GB. EU hosting adds $0.05/GB |
What New Relic actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standardper additional full platform user | per month | $99 | $1,188 |
| Proper full platform user | per month | $349 | $4,188 |
Cancelling New Relic, and getting money back
Read from the published New Relic terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| Refund window | None published |
|---|---|
| When you cancel | The agreement runs for the subscription term. On expiry or termination access to the service stops immediately and you must stop sending data to it. |
| Changing mid-term | Fees and expenses are non-cancellable and non-refundable except where the agreement says otherwise. Terminating for New Relic's uncured material breach earns a refund of prepaid unused fees for the terminated part of the term, on request. |
| Your data afterwards | New Relic deletes the customer data in an account after termination or expiry. |
New Relic paid terms and conditions ↗ · read 18 September 2026
New Relic pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against New Relic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Datadog | $15 a month | Yes | −$84 a month (−85%) |
| Grafana Cloud | $19 a month | Yes | −$80 a month (−81%) |
| New Relic | $99 a month | Yes | This product |
Which New Relic plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You run one application and one engineer investigates issues | Free | Perpetually free with 100 GB of monthly ingest and one full platform user. Often enough indefinitely. |
| You have up to five engineers needing full access | Standard | First full platform user $10, additional ones $99, capped at five. That cap is a hard stop, not a suggestion. |
| You have six or more engineers needing full access | Pro | $349 per user on annual commitment, or $418.80 monthly. The jump from Standard is abrupt and typically triples the bill. |
| You need FedRAMP or HIPAA eligibility | Enterprise | Quote only, and a compliance purchase rather than a capability one. |
| You ingest a lot of data | Model both axes | $0.40 per GB beyond the free 100 GB, or $0.60 for Data Plus, with $0.05 more for EU hosting. Data and users move independently. |
| Everyone in your team needs full access | Consider Grafana Cloud instead | No per-user charges at all, which is the structural difference. |
Two axes, and you must model both
New Relic bills on data ingested and provisioned full platform users. They move independently, which is why teams underestimate it.
Data. 100 GB a month is free, forever. Beyond that:
- Original data option: $0.40 per GB
- Data Plus, with longer retention and advanced governance: $0.60 per GB
- Storing data in the EU data centre: an extra $0.05 per GB per month
- Synthetics checks beyond your edition’s allowance: $0.005 per check
Users. Three types, and only the top one is expensive:
| User type | Cost |
|---|---|
| Basic | Free on all editions |
| Core | $49 per user |
| Full platform (Standard) | $10 first user, $99 each additional, maximum 5 |
| Full platform (Pro) | $349 per user annual, $418.80 monthly pay as you go |
That $349 figure is the one to plan around. A team of six engineers who all need full access is roughly $25,000 a year in seats alone, and the data bill sits on top.
The free tier is genuinely usable
Worth saying plainly, because free observability tiers are usually a demo. New Relic’s is perpetual and includes 100 GB of monthly ingest, one full platform user and unlimited basic users, with access to the full platform capabilities for that one user.
For a small team running one application, that is often enough indefinitely. You will hit the ceiling on users before data: the moment a second engineer needs to debug rather than look, you are on a paid edition.
Standard’s five-user cap is the trap
Standard looks cheap. The first full platform user is $10, additional ones $99, and core users $49. But Standard is limited to five full platform users, and there is no sixth seat at any price.
So the growth path is not gradual. You go from $99 per additional user on Standard to $349 per user on Pro, all at once, when your sixth engineer needs access. Anticipate that step rather than discovering it, because it typically triples the bill.
Against Datadog and Grafana
Datadog has a broader product surface and better integration coverage, prices largely per host, and is generally the more expensive but more complete choice. Grafana Cloud is cheaper at high volume and built on open-source components you could run yourself, at the cost of more assembly.
New Relic sits between them: one integrated platform, usage-based rather than host-based, with a free tier that beats both. Whether it stays cheaper depends entirely on how many of your engineers need to be full platform users, which is a question about your team rather than the software.
New Relic questions, answered
- Does New Relic have a free plan or free trial?
- New Relic has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- Can I self-host New Relic?
- No. New Relic is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
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What has changed
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August 2026
- User tiers and data ingest rates verified, including the five-user cap on Standard
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
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- New Relic pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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