Sematext pricing

Sematext Cloud is a usage-priced observability platform covering log management, infrastructure monitoring, tracing, synthetics and user experience monitoring.

Log management softwareSelf-serve + sales

Visit SematextPrices checked Oct 29, 2026

How much does Sematext cost?

Paid plans start at $5/mo

Free plan: Not stated
Free trial: 14-day free trial, no credit card needed
Enterprise: Contact sales

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In your favor

No long-term contract. No contracts or commitments, cancel any time (infra monitoring FAQ)
Free trial. 14-day free trial, no credit card needed

How you buy and get started

Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Start free trial, Schedule a live demo, Request a live demo, Demo

Sign up: Self-serve free trial, no credit card needed
Setup: Not stated
When sales steps in: For longer term and large contracts, get in touch
Support: Live chat and email on Basic and Standard; phone added on Pro

What Sematext does

Sematext Cloud combines logs, metrics and traces in one product, with log plans priced by daily volume and retention and a 14-day free trial. It is offered as Cloud or On Premise, and the company also sells consulting, training and support for Elasticsearch and Solr.

Good for: Small to large engineering teams that want usage-based log management with predictable pricing and overage protection, plus infrastructure and tracing in one platform.
Main product: Sematext Cloud (Logs)
Also includes: Log management with searching and filtering, Elasticsearch API, Custom charts and dashboards, Unlimited users and sources, Role-based access, Saved views
Connects to: Akka, AlertOps, Angular, Apache, Apache Solr, AWS, AWS CloudWatch, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, ZooKeeper, Travis CI
Public API: Yes
MCP server: Yes

Live tailLive Tail
Full-text log searchSearching & Filtering
Log-based alertingAlert Rules
Configurable retentionRetention 7 days 15 days 30 days 60 days 90 days 180 days 365 days
SSO and role-based accessRole-based Access
Self-hosted optionthrough a single Cloud or On Premise solution
OpenTelemetry supportSematext has native OpenTelemetry support in Sematext Agent.
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)	Not stated
SOC 2	Not stated
GDPR	Not stated
CCPA	Not stated
PCI	Not stated
ISO 27001	Not stated
Single sign-on	Not stated
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
Logs Basic/month	$5	–	500 MB/day7 days retention	–	"Basic $5 /month Data Received: $0.1/GB Data Stored: $0.15/GB"
Logs Standard/month	$50	–	1 GB/dayRetention 7 or 15 days; daily volume 1, 5 or 10 GB/day	–	"Standard $50 /month Data Received: $0.1/GB Data Stored: $1.57/GB"
Logs Pro/month	$60	–	1 GB/dayRetention 7 to 365 days; daily volume 1 to 1000 GB/day	–	"Pro $60 /month Data Received: $0.1/GB Data Stored: $1.9/GB"

Fine print

Billing increment: Not stated
Billed beyond usage: Max Daily Volume rejects excess data to prevent unexpected charges
Contract: No contracts or commitments, cancel any time (infra monitoring FAQ)
Refunds: Not stated
Auto renew: Not stated
Price change notice: Not stated