Our take
Pick Amplitude if product / support teams who will stay on Free at $0 (2 million events / month, no card) while they open a first Topics cluster, then upgrade to Plus (starts at $0, first 2M events free, scales to 70M) when they need custom events and 2-year retention. Pick Grafana if observability teams who will stay on Cloud Free at $0 always (usage limits, 14-day retention) while they open a first dashboard, then
Best for
Amplitude Event clusters you start at $0
Grafana Time series you edit at $0
Free plan
Amplitude $0 · no credit card. No time limit. 2 million events / month. Unlimited seats. Session replay, feature flags, and AI agents on the tile we fetched
Grafana $0 · always. No charges ever. All Grafana Cloud services with usage limits. 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6. Community support. Adaptive Telemetry and AI Assistant on the Free benefits
Lowest paid
Amplitude Startups $10
Grafana Pro $19
Runs where
Amplitude Local or hosted
Grafana Hosted
Watch out
Amplitude Free caps at 2 million events / month
Grafana Free retention is 14 days
Last checked
Amplitude 2026-10-23 · amplitude.com/pricing
Grafana 2026-10-23 · grafana.com/pricing
product / support teams who will stay on Free at $0 (2 million events / month, no card) while they open a first Topics cluster, then upgrade to Plus (starts at $0, first 2M events free, scales to 70M) when they need custom events and 2-year retention.
Read the Amplitude pageobservability teams who will stay on Cloud Free at $0 always (usage limits, 14-day retention) while they open a first dashboard, then buy Pro from $19 / month + usage (platform fee $19 includes 10k active series) or Enterprise from $25,000 / year.
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