How much does Sumo Logic cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Free trial, no credit card
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- No overage charges. No overage or penalty charges for spikes
- Free trial. Free trial, no credit card
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve free trial sign-up "Start free trial"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Credit card purchases up to $25,000; larger deals via sales "You can purchase credits directly with a credit card (up to $25,000) from our self-serve checkout in trial"
- Support
- Standard (8x5) on Essentials, Enterprise (P1 24/7) on Enterprise Suite "Includes access to certified support engineers to prioritize, analyze, and assist in resolution of issues"
What Sumo Logic does
Sumo Logic is a SaaS platform for log analytics, cloud SIEM and observability, with DojoAI agents and a Mobot natural-language assistant. Pricing is credit and scan based with unlimited users, a free trial, and card purchases up to $25,000.
- Good for
- Small to medium DevOps and SecOps teams (Essentials) and maturing security teams needing SIEM, compliance and threat detection (Enterprise Suite).
- Channels
- Free trial sign-up, Self-serve credit card checkout in trial, Sales team, Resellers, MSSPs and technology partners
- Main product
- Sumo Logic log analytics platform (Essentials and Enterprise Suite) with SIEM, Logs for Security, Cloud SOAR and DojoAI
- Also includes
- Log search and visualizations, Live Tail for streaming logs, Ingest budgets, LogReduce, LogCompare, LogExplain, Customizable dashboards, Monitors and alerting integrations
- Connects to
- AWS CloudTrail, Amazon S3 Audit, Apache, Kubernetes, Linux, NGINX, PCI Compliance, Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Terraform
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Live tail
Live Tail for Streaming Logs View a real-time feed of log events associated with a Source or Collector.
- Full-text log search
Log Search and Visualizations Use Sumo Logic’s Query Language and Dashboarding Framework used to quickly parse
- Log-based alerting
Real-time alerting (monitors logs/metrics)
- Configurable retention
Log data retention Defines the duration of time logs are retained on Sumo Logic
- SSO and role-based access
Single sign-on with SAML Support for federated identiy access management and single sign-on
- Self-hosted optionNot stated
- OpenTelemetry support
OTel Data Onboarding Easily set up and configure native OTel data ingest and install relevant content to quick
- AI log analysis assistant
Democratize the platform with Mobot
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 | "HIPAA"home |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "SOC 2 Type II"home |
| GDPR | GDPR | "GDPR"home |
| CCPA | CCPA | "CCPA"home |
| PCI | PCI DSS 4.0.1 | "PCI DSS 4.0.1"home |
| ISO 27001 | ISO 27001 | "ISO 27001"home |
| Single sign-on | SAML single sign-on | "Single sign-on with SAML"pricing |
| Trust center | Security Trust Center | "Security Trust Center"pricing |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | – | – | – | – | "Ideal for small-to-medium-sized DevOps and SecOps teams requiring ad-hoc investigation and" |
| Enterprise Suite | Quote | – | – | – | "Ideal for maturing security teams looking for real-time threat detection, investigation, a" |
| DojoAI add-on | Quote | – | 10 prompts per user/day | – | "Included 10 prompts per user/day" |
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- No overage or penalty charges for spikes "No. With credits, Sumo Logic does not charge after the fact for any ingest spike or increased usage at penalty rates."
- Contract
- Annual commitment assumed for listed pricing "an annual commitment to Sumo Logic Essentials"
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- 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
- Sumo Logic, Inc.
- Online since
- Mar 10, 2010 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "Trusted by more than 2,500 customers globally" their claim
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Questions
Is Sumo Logic free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: Free trial, no credit card.
Is Sumo Logic HIPAA compliant?
Sumo Logic says a HIPAA BAA is available.
