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AWS Managed Grafana pricing 2026

Verified July 2026

Amazon Managed Grafana bills per active user, not per metric: $9 an editor, $5 a viewer, per workspace per month. It runs the Grafana visualization layer only, so the metrics backend (Amazon Managed Prometheus) is a separate bill. Here is the full cost, the free trial, and how it differs from Grafana Cloud.

How much does Amazon Managed Grafana cost?

Amazon Managed Grafana charges $9 per active editor and $5 per active viewer per workspace per month, with an optional Grafana Enterprise plugins add-on at $45 per active user. There is a 90-day free trial for up to five users. It stores no metrics itself, so the data backend, usually Amazon Managed Prometheus at $0.90 per 10M samples, is a separate charge. A team of 3 editors and 5 viewers pays about $52/month for Grafana seats plus the Prometheus ingest cost.

TL;DR

Per active user, per workspace: $9 editor/admin, $5 viewer, $45 Enterprise plugins add-on. An active user is anyone who logs in once in the month. Metrics storage is separate: Amazon Managed Prometheus at $0.90/10M samples, $0.10/billion query samples, $0.03/GB/mo storage. This is a different product from Grafana Cloud, which bundles storage and dashboards into one per-series bill.

The per-user meters

Amazon Managed Grafana pricing table

Amazon Managed Grafana bills only for the visualization layer, per active user per workspace. US East (N. Virginia) list rates below. The data-source backend bills separately (see the Amazon Managed Prometheus table).

Meter	List rate	Billed on
Editor / Admin user	$9 / active user / mo	per workspace
Viewer user	$5 / active user / mo	per workspace
Grafana Enterprise plugins (add-on)	$45 / active user / mo	per workspace, optional

Source: aws.amazon.com/grafana/pricing, verified July 2026 (US East, N. Virginia).

The separate metrics bill

Amazon Managed Prometheus, the usual backend

Amazon Managed Grafana holds no data. The dashboards read from a data source, and for Prometheus-format metrics that is Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), billed on its own meters below. CloudWatch, X-Ray, and OpenSearch are alternative sources with their own rates.

AMP meter	List rate	Billed on
Metric-sample ingestion (first 2B/mo)	$0.90 / 10M samples	volume tiers below
Query samples processed	$0.10 / billion samples	QSP
Metric storage	$0.03 / GB / mo	samples + metadata
Agentless collector	$0.04 / collector-hour + $0.03 / 10M samples	optional scraper

Source: aws.amazon.com/prometheus/pricing, verified July 2026. Free tier: 40M samples ingested, 200B query samples, 10 GB stored per month.

Three scenarios

What teams actually pay

Concrete monthly cost ranges combining the per-user Grafana seats with a realistic Amazon Managed Prometheus backend. Figures use the verified list rates above; your metrics ingest depends on host count, scrape interval, and cardinality.

Small team, 3 editors + 5 viewers

Editors (3 x $9)$27
Viewers (5 x $5)$25
Amazon Managed Prometheus (~0.5B samples)$45
AMP storage + queries~$10

~$110/month

First 5 users are free for 90 days. Metrics ingest, not user seats, becomes the dominant cost as the fleet grows.

Mid-market, 10 editors + 30 viewers

Editors (10 x $9)$90
Viewers (30 x $5)$150
AMP ingest (~1.5B samples/mo)$135
AMP storage + queries$60+

~$450 to $700/month

The per-user seat model stays cheap; the Prometheus backend and dashboard-refresh query volume are the real levers.

Enterprise, 50 editors + 200 viewers

Editors (50 x $9)$450
Viewers (200 x $5)$1,000
Enterprise plugins (subset of users)$1,000+
AMP ingest (multi-billion samples)$2,000+
AMP storage + heavy query volume$1,500+

~$6,000 to $12,000/month

At scale the metrics backend dwarfs Grafana seats. Recording rules and query-caching cut the QSP bill hardest.

Two products, one name

Managed Grafana is not Grafana Cloud

The single most common Amazon Managed Grafana pricing mistake is confusing it with Grafana Cloud. They are separate products with separate bills. Amazon Managed Grafana is an AWS service that runs the Grafana visualization layer only, priced per active user ($9 editor, $5 viewer per month), and reads from data sources you supply. Grafana Cloud is Grafana Labs' own SaaS that bundles hosted metrics (Mimir), logs (Loki), and traces (Tempo) with the dashboards, priced per active metric series ($6.50 per 1,000 above a 10,000-series free tier) plus per gigabyte of logs and traces.

The practical difference is where the storage cost lands. On Amazon Managed Grafana you pay AWS for the metrics backend (Amazon Managed Prometheus) on a separate meter, so the Grafana line item stays small and predictable while the Prometheus bill tracks ingest volume. On Grafana Cloud the storage and dashboards are one bill driven by active-series cardinality. AWS-native teams already running Managed Prometheus usually find Amazon Managed Grafana cheaper; teams that want a single vendor for the whole telemetry stack pick Grafana Cloud.

Comparing to Grafana Cloud?

See the Grafana Cloud pricing breakdown for the per-active-series model, or the AWS monitoring cost page for CloudWatch-native versus third-party trade-offs.

Where the bill compounds

Six Managed Grafana cost traps

Amazon Managed Grafana's per-user model is simple, but the separate data-source meters and the 'active user' definition create charges that are easy to miss until the invoice lands.

An 'active user' is anyone who logged in or made an API request at least once in the monthly billing cycle, so a viewer who checks a dashboard once is billed the full $5 for that month.

Each workspace needs at least one Editor license ($9/mo) to exist, so idle or archived workspaces keep billing until deleted.

Amazon Managed Grafana stores no metrics itself. The dashboards read from data sources (Amazon Managed Prometheus, CloudWatch, X-Ray), each of which bills on its own meter on top of the per-user Grafana charge.

Amazon Managed Prometheus query-samples-processed ($0.10/billion) scales with dashboard refresh rate: a busy dashboard auto-refreshing every 10 seconds across many panels can process billions of query samples a day.

Grafana Enterprise plugins are $45 per active user per workspace, five times the editor seat, and are billed per user rather than per workspace once enabled.

CloudWatch used as a Grafana data source bills GetMetricData API requests at $0.01 per 1,000 metrics beyond the free tier, a charge that lands on the CloudWatch bill, not the Grafana one.

Consolidate workspaces

Billing is per active user per workspace, so the same person counts once in every workspace they open. Fewer workspaces means less double-counting of seats.

Use recording rules

Pre-aggregate common Prometheus queries into recording rules so dashboards read fewer samples. Cuts the $0.10/billion query-samples charge on busy dashboards hardest.

Tune auto-refresh

A panel auto-refreshing every 10 seconds processes six times the query samples of a 60-second refresh. Slow refresh on non-critical dashboards to trim query cost.

Verify before you commit

All rates on this page are AWS list pricing for US East (N. Virginia), verified against aws.amazon.com/grafana/pricing and aws.amazon.com/prometheus/pricing in July 2026. Other regions carry a modest premium, and AWS adjusts rates periodically. Confirm the current figure for your region before budgeting.

Cross-references

/grafana-cloud-pricing

Grafana Cloud pricing breakdown

/aws-monitoring-cost

AWS monitoring cost: native vs third-party

/cloudwatch-pricing

CloudWatch pricing, every meter

/datadog-vs-grafana-cloud

Datadog vs Grafana Cloud

/open-source-vs-paid

Open-source vs paid monitoring

/gcp-monitoring-cost

GCP monitoring cost (Cloud Operations)

/azure-monitor-cost

Azure Monitor cost (Log Analytics)

/free-monitoring-tools

Free cloud monitoring tools 2026

/calculator

Multi-vendor cost calculator

Frequently asked

How much does Amazon Managed Grafana cost?

Amazon Managed Grafana is priced per active user per workspace: $9 per active editor or admin user per month and $5 per active viewer per month, with an optional Grafana Enterprise plugins add-on at $45 per active user per month. An active user is anyone who logs in or makes an API request at least once during the monthly billing cycle. There is a 90-day free trial covering up to five users per account, no upfront fee, and no minimum commitment beyond the one Editor license each workspace requires to operate. Amazon Managed Grafana stores no metrics itself, so the data-source backend (typically Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus) bills separately. A small team of 3 editors and 5 viewers pays about $52 per month for Grafana seats plus the Prometheus ingest cost. Verify current rates on the AWS Managed Grafana pricing page before committing.

What is the difference between Amazon Managed Grafana and Grafana Cloud?

They are two different products. Amazon Managed Grafana (AMG) is an AWS service that runs the open-source Grafana visualization layer only, priced per active user ($9 editor, $5 viewer per month), and reads from data sources you supply, most commonly Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, CloudWatch, or X-Ray, each billed separately. Grafana Cloud is Grafana Labs' own SaaS, which bundles the visualization layer with hosted metrics (Mimir), logs (Loki), and traces (Tempo), priced per active metric series ($6.50 per 1,000 above a 10,000-series free tier) plus per gigabyte of logs and traces and $8 per active visualization user. In short, AMG charges for the dashboard users and pushes storage cost to AWS data-source meters, while Grafana Cloud is a single bill covering storage and dashboards together. AWS-native stacks that already run Managed Prometheus usually find AMG cheaper; teams wanting one vendor for the whole telemetry stack pick Grafana Cloud.

Is Amazon Managed Grafana free?

Amazon Managed Grafana offers a 90-day free trial that includes up to five active users per account. After the trial, or above five users, the per-user rates apply: $9 per active editor or admin and $5 per active viewer per month. The data-source backend has its own free tier: Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus includes 40 million metric samples ingested, 200 billion query samples processed, and 10 GB of stored metrics per month at no charge. Beyond those allowances the metrics backend bills separately from the Grafana seats.

How much does the Amazon Managed Prometheus backend add?

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, the usual metrics store behind Amazon Managed Grafana, bills $0.90 per 10 million metric samples ingested for the first 2 billion samples per month (with lower rates at higher volume tiers), $0.10 per billion query samples processed, and $0.03 per GB per month of stored metrics. A fleet of roughly 50 hosts at typical Prometheus scrape rates ingests on the order of half a billion samples per month, about $45 in ingestion before storage and queries. Query cost tracks dashboard refresh frequency, so recording rules and sensible auto-refresh intervals are the main levers. The AWS Free Tier covers 40 million samples, 200 billion query samples, and 10 GB stored per month.

What counts as an active user in Amazon Managed Grafana?

An active user is a user who logged in to an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace or made an API request at least once during a monthly billing cycle. Users who never sign in during a month are not billed for that month, but a single login triggers the full monthly seat charge ($9 for an editor or admin, $5 for a viewer). Because billing is per active user per workspace, the same person counts once in each workspace they access, so consolidating dashboards into fewer workspaces reduces double-counting.

Do I need Amazon Managed Prometheus to use Amazon Managed Grafana?

No. Amazon Managed Grafana can read from many data sources without Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, including Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Timestream, and external sources. Amazon Managed Prometheus is the most common backend for teams standardising on Prometheus-format metrics, but if your metrics already live in CloudWatch you can point Grafana at CloudWatch directly and pay only the per-user Grafana charge plus CloudWatch's GetMetricData API requests. The choice of data source determines the separate backend cost.