How much does Axiom cost?
Paid plans start at
$25/mo
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from axiom.co/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free plan. Personal plan is permanent and free with 500 GB/mo data loading compute, 10 GB-hours query compute, 25 GB storage and 30-day retention; no credit card needed.
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Usage above the free allowance is billed at normal rates with no separate overage rate.
- Going over the Axiom Cloud allowance costs $0.12 to $0.12 per per gb data loading compute. Included: 1 TB/mo data loading compute.
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Start free→→, Talk to sales, Get Started→→
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup, no credit card "Sign up in 30 seconds. No credit card."
- Setup
- Point a source at an endpoint; adding a source takes minutes. "Adding a new data source takes minutes."
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
- Support
- Email support included on Axiom Cloud; paid SLA and dedicated support available "Email support (paid SLA + dedicated available)"
- Support
- Community support on Personal "Community support"
What Axiom does
Axiom ingests logs, traces, metrics and events into a managed event store and queries them with its APL query language, with dashboards, alerts, an MCP server and OpenTelemetry ingest. It is billed by usage with a free Personal plan and a $25/month Axiom Cloud plan.
- Good for
- Engineering and platform teams that want to keep all log and event data at large volumes at predictable usage-based cost, including teams moving workloads off Splunk, Datadog or self-managed clusters.
- Channels
- Web console, REST API, MCP server, Splunk App (preview), SDKs
- Main product
- Axiom Cloud
- Also includes
- Log, trace, metric and event ingest, APL query language and MPL for metrics, Dashboards and alerts, Monitors, Configurable retention on Axiom Cloud, MCP server, SRE skill and Metrics skill
- Connects to
- OpenTelemetry Collector, Vector, Fluent Bit, Fluentd, Cribl, Logstash, Elastic Beats, CloudWatch, AWS Lambda, Data Firehose, S3, Vercel
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Live tailNot stated
- Full-text log searchNot stated
- Log-based alerting
Alerting
- Configurable retention
Configurable retention
- SSO and role-based access
Self-serve add-ons (SSO, RBAC, Directory Sync, Extended Audit Logs)
- Self-hosted optionNot stated
- OpenTelemetry support
Native support for OpenTelemetry, every major collector, AWS services, and SDKs in 8 languages.
- AI log analysis assistantNot stated
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in Log management software. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | available as a self-serve add-on on Axiom Cloud | "HIPAA BAA available as a self-serve add-on."pricing |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant today."pricing |
| GDPR | compliant | "SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant today."pricing |
| CCPA | California residents have CCPA rights | "If you are a California resident, you have the rights set forth in this section."privacy |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | ISO 27001:2022 certified | "ISO 27001:2022"security |
| Single sign-on | SAML SSO is a $100/month self-serve add-on on Axiom Cloud | "Single Sign-On (SAML SSO)$100/ month"pricing |
| Trust center | https://trust.axiom.co/ | "[Trust Center](https://trust.axiom.co/)"home |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal/month | $0 | – | 500 GB/mo data loading compute | – | "$0/month" |
| Axiom Cloud/month | $25 | – | 1 TB/mo data loading computeSpend limit configurable in Console | $0.12 to $0.12/per gb data loading compute | "$25/month" |
Free plan: Personal plan is permanent and free with 500 GB/mo data loading compute, 10 GB-hours query compute, 25 GB storage and 30-day retention; no credit card needed.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Usage above the free allowance is billed at normal rates with no separate overage rate. "There's no separate overage rate: extra usage is billed at the normal rates, and those rates get lower as your monthly volume grows."
- Contract
- No minimum commitment on pay as you go; optional 12, 24 or 36 month compute credit commitments. "Platform fee + usage. No minimum commitment."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Service descriptions renew automatically unless 30 days written notice of non-renewal is given. "each Service Description will renew automatically at the end of the applicable term"
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Axiom, Inc.
- Ships updates
- 25 in the last 12 months Last on Oct 29, 2026, from their changelog
- Customers
- "Cal.com co-founder and CEO quoted as a customer" their claim
- Backing
- "Supported by well-regarded people" their words
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Questions
Is Axiom free?
Yes. Personal plan is permanent and free with 500 GB/mo data loading compute, 10 GB-hours query compute, 25 GB storage and 30-day retention; no credit card needed. Paid plans start at $25/month.
How much does Axiom cost?
Paid plans start at $25 per month.
Is Axiom HIPAA compliant?
Axiom says a HIPAA BAA is available as a self-serve add-on on Axiom Cloud.