Yes — OpenObserve has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 14-day free trial on the Cloud Pay As You Go plan, no credit card required to start, 20 AI credits during preview for AI-powered features, and 15 months of metrics retention included at no extra charge.
About
OpenObserve is an open source observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, frontend monitoring, session replay, and incident workflows in a single system. It runs as one binary or Helm chart, uses SQL and PromQL for querying, and stores data on low-cost object storage such as local disk, S3, MinIO, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage.
The product is aimed at DevOps and platform engineering teams that need self-hosted or cloud observability with predictable ingestion-based pricing. The pricing page lists a 14-day free trial for Cloud Pay As You Go, and the Self-Hosted Enterprise plan is free up to 50 GB of ingestion per day; the open source edition is also described as free forever for self hosting.
- Unified logs, metrics, traces, and RUM
- One binary or Helm chart deployment
- SQL and PromQL query support
- Apache Parquet columnar storage
- Up to 50 GB/day self-hosted free tier
- 14-day cloud free trial
- OpenTelemetry-native ingestion
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a 14-day trial on the Cloud Pay As You Go plan with no credit card required, so it has real value but only for a short window. The closest paid plan is usage-based rather than a fixed monthly subscription, and the trial includes the same core Cloud capabilities plus included retention and no seat charges, so a buyer would reasonably value it at about half a month of access to that plan’s practical utility.
What's included in the free tier
- 14-day free trial on the Cloud Pay As You Go plan, no credit card required to start.
- 20 AI credits during preview for AI-powered features.
- Unlimited users on all OpenObserve Cloud plans, with no per-seat charges.
- No limits on dashboards, alerts, or data sources on Cloud plans.
- 15 months of metrics retention included at no extra charge.
- 30 days of logs, traces, RUM, and other non-metrics retention included at no extra charge.
- Single Sign-On included at no additional cost on Cloud Pay As You Go and Self-Hosted Enterprise plans.
See OpenObserve pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Professional
- trial_duration
- 14 days
- metrics_retention
- 15 months
- non_metrics_retention
- 30 days
- Logs, metrics, traces, RUM, session replay, error tracking
- Included retention for metrics and non-metrics data
- Annual commitment discount available
- No per-seat charges
- Cloud plan
Enterprise
- users
- unlimited
- Additional retention for non-metrics data
- Pipelines
- Sensitive data redaction
- AI-powered observability
- Incident management and AI SRE agent
- AI assistant
- Unlimited users
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
Pricing extracted from OpenObserve's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is OpenObserve free forever?
Yes. OpenObserve has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does OpenObserve require a credit card?
No. You can start on OpenObserve's free tier without entering card details.
What is OpenObserve's free tier worth?
We estimate OpenObserve's free tier is worth about $15 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 62/100. See freetier.co/ftv for how we calculate it.
