Free plans (11)
Their limits are stated in different terms, so they aren't ranked against each other. Ordered by first paid price.
| Tool | Stated limits | What makes you upgrade | First paid price | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 New RelicRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Perpetual free tier each month: 100 GB data ingest, one free full platform user, unlimited basic users, 50+ capabilities, at least 8 days default retention, default logs obfuscation."Sign up for free access with our perpetual free tier and 100 GB/month of data ingest included."Source | Above 100 GB, ingest and platform access stop until next month or upgrade to a paid edition | $10/userStandard full platform user (first user) | Free plan |
 Site24x7 Log ManagementRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free forever plan: monitor the uptime of up to 50 resources and receive instant downtime email alerts"Try our free forever plan: Monitor the uptime of up to 50 resources. | Receive instant downtime email alerts"Source | Not found | $10/moWeb Uptime | Free plan |
| Grafana Loki (Grafana Cloud)Read Oct 29, 2026 | Always-free plan: logs limited to 50 GB ingested per month with 14 day retention and community support"Limited to 50 GB ingested per month"Source | Free cap: Limited to 50 GB ingested per month, 14 day retention | $19/moPro | Free plan |
 AxiomRead Oct 29, 2026 |
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."Permanent. No credit card required."Source | Not found | $25/moAxiom Cloud | Free plan |
 Better StackRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free for personal projects: 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 3 GB traces retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page. Beyond that, paid bundles or usage rates apply."3 GB logs retained for 3 days"Source | Beyond that, paid bundles or usage rates apply | $30/moNano bundle (Europe) | Free plan |
 SolarWinds LogglyRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Lite plan is free: centralized log management, automated log summaries, search and filters, 200 MB/day, 7 days retention. Trial accounts convert to Lite after 30 days."At the end of your trial, your account will convert to the Lite package, which offers basic log management functionality free of charge."Source | Free cap: 7 days retention | $79/mo yearlyStandard | Free plan |
 HoneycombRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free forever: up to 20M events and 100M metrics data points per month, 2 Triggers, tracing, BubbleUp, Canvas AI Copilot, MCP"Our introductory plan, free forever."Source | More than 20 million events: Pro includes 50 million | $150/moPro | Free plan |
 GraylogRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Graylog Open is free permanently, source-available under SSPL, no daily ingest cap or volume limit, narrower feature set than paid editions"Graylog Open is free permanently. It is not a trial. There is no daily ingest cap and no volume limit of any kind."Source | Not found | $1,250/mo yearlyGraylog Enterprise | Free plan |
 CriblRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free tier processes up to 1TB/day with universal sources, unlimited pipelines and routes, and community support; no license required."Process up to 1TB/day, no license required."Source | No license required | No price found | Free plan |
 OpenObserveRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Self-hosted Open Source edition is free forever; Self-Hosted Enterprise is free up to 50 GB/day ingestion, above which sales contact is needed"For self-hosted deployments, the Open Source edition is free forever, and the Self-Hosted Enterprise edition is free for up to 50 GB of ingestion..."Source | Self-Hosted Enterprise is free up to 50 GB/day ingestion, above which sales contact is needed | $0.50/GB ingested | Free plan |
 SplunkRead Oct 29, 2026 |
A free edition of Observability Cloud is offered; its allowances are not stated on the page."Free edition"Source | Not found | No price found | Free plan |
Free trial only (11)
- Coralogix: 14-day free trial, all features, no credit card, quota of 8 units
- Datadog: Free trial offered, length not stated
- Dynatrace: 15-day free trial
- Elastic Observability: Free trial available, no credit card required; length not stated
- LogicMonitor: 15 days on any plan (pricing page); home page says 14-day access
- Logz.io: 14-day free trial
- Mezmo: Free trial available
- Observe: Free trial offered, length not stated
- Sematext: 14-day free trial, no credit card needed
- SolarWinds Papertrail: 30 days free, no credit card required, 100 GB usage included during the trial
- Sumo Logic: Free trial, no credit card
Questions
Which log management software are free?
11 have a free plan you can keep, including Axiom, Better Stack, Cribl, Honeycomb, Grafana Loki (Grafana Cloud), Graylog.
What do you pay after a free plan?
The lowest first paid price among tools with a free plan is $10/user (New Relic). Read from each vendor's own page.
How this page is made
Every limit is the vendor's own, read from its pages and quoted. A tool counts as a free plan when the text describes something you can keep using; a fixed number of days or a single batch of credits is listed separately. We don't test the plans. How prices are read.