How much does Graylog cost?
Paid plans start at
$1,250/mo billed yearly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from graylog.org/pricing/ on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Unlimited usage on Graylog Open. A flat price with no cap on usage.
- Free plan. Graylog Open is free permanently, source-available under SSPL, no daily ingest cap or volume limit, narrower feature set than paid editions
- No setup fee. No setup fee stated; Graylog Accelerator guided onboarding included with every paid license
- Notice before price changes. No price increases during a multi-year term
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Download, Contact Sales, Try Graylog, See Demo
- Sign up
- Graylog Open downloadable without sales contact; paid editions via Contact Sales "[Download](https://graylog.org/downloads/)"
- Setup
- Guided setup included with paid license "Guided setup and configuration, through to production."
- When sales steps in
- Paid editions require sales contact; scoping call about 20 minutes "A Graylog representative will contact you to schedule a scoping call to review your environment and requirements."
- Support
- Community support for Open "Community support."
- Support
- Technical Account Manager add-on "A named engineer who knows your deployment."
What Graylog does
Graylog collects, searches and analyzes log data, with a built-in data lake, tiered retention, alerting and an MCP server for AI use. Graylog Open is free; Enterprise adds log management features and Security adds SIEM features, both licensed by processed data volume per year.
- Good for
- Lean IT, operations and security teams that want centralized log management or a SIEM, in cloud, on-prem, hybrid or air-gapped setups.
- Channels
- Self-managed, Graylog Cloud, AWS Marketplace, Air-gapped
- Main product
- Graylog Platform (Open, Enterprise, Security editions)
- Also includes
- Log collection (Syslog, CEF, GELF, Beats, Netflow), Sidecar collector management, Pipelines, streams and data routing, Search and dashboards, Data lake routing and selective retrieval, Data tiering across hot, warm and archive
- Connects to
- AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, AWS Security Lake, LDAP, Syslog, CEF, GELF, Beats, Netflow, Sigma rules, MITRE ATT&CK
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Live tailNot stated
- Full-text log search
Search across terabytes and the results are back before you’ve switched tabs.
- Log-based alerting
Basic triggers and notifications
- Configurable retention
For self-managed customers, you do. Retention length does not affect licensing.
- SSO and role-based access
SSO, teams and LDAP role-based access
- Self-hosted option
Self-managed is a lower licensing cost and gives you full control over where data lives
- OpenTelemetry supportNot stated
- AI log analysis assistant
AI summaries and investigation analysis included.
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) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | available on Enterprise | "SSO, teams and LDAP role-based access"pricing |
| Trust center | Not stated |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graylog Enterprise/year | – | $1,250per month | 10 GB/day | – | "end access through rest api and mcp server download https://graylog.org/downloads/ compare" |
| Graylog Security/year | – | $1,500per month | 10 GB/day | – | "er audit logs contact sales contact compare versions http://graylog.com/graylog-features/ " |
| Graylog Open | – | – | UnlimitedNo volume restrictions | – | "Source-available under SSPL. No volume restrictions. Community support." |
Free plan: Graylog Open is free permanently, source-available under SSPL, no daily ingest cap or volume limit, narrower feature set than paid editions
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Licensed on processed data volume in the active data tier, daily volume (GB/day) or annual consumption (GCUs) "Graylog licenses processed data volume in the active data tier."
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- 1 to 5 year subscription terms; multi-year locks rate "Multi-year terms lock in prices, eliminating the need to negotiate annually and preventing price increases during the term."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- No price increases during a multi-year term "Multi-year terms lock in prices, eliminating the need to negotiate annually and preventing price increases during the term."
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Graylog, Inc.
- Address
- 1301 Fannin St, Ste. 2000, Houston, TX 77002
- Customers
- "60,000+ installations, 250,000+ users" their claim
- Backing
- "Recognized in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM" their words
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Questions
Is Graylog free?
Yes. Graylog Open is free permanently, source-available under SSPL, no daily ingest cap or volume limit, narrower feature set than paid editions
How much does Graylog cost?
Paid plans start at $1,250 per month billed yearly.