Is New Relic free? What it actually costs in 2026
New Relic is free for 100 GB of data ingest a month and one full-platform user. Beyond that: $0.40 per GB and $99 per additional full user on Standard.
The free tier is generous: 100 GB of ingest a month, one full-platform user, unlimited basic users, no time limit.
What the free tier actually includes
- 100 GB of data ingest a month
- 1 full-platform user; basic users are free and unlimited
- Ingest beyond 100 GB is billed per GB
Where the wall is
The second engineer who needs the full UI. Data is cheap; full users are not — the price per user is what turns a free observability stack into a five-figure invoice.
After that: Data: $0.40 per GB beyond 100 GB (Data Plus $0.60). Users: Standard $10 for the first full user, $99 each additional up to five; Pro $349 a user annually ($418.80 monthly); Core users $49; Enterprise via sales.
Can you self-host New Relic? No — cloud only
New Relic is SaaS only. SigNoz, Grafana + Prometheus and Netdata are the self-hosted stacks compared here, where the cost is the box, not the seat.
When paying is still the right call
New Relic's mature all-in-one APM, its genuinely useful free tier (100 GB plus one full user), and turnkey setup are strong. If you want production-grade APM without operating your own stack, and your data volume stays modest, staying is a reasonable call.
What you are locked into
New Relic's proprietary agents and its NRQL query language mean dashboards, alerts, and saved queries don't port elsewhere; the practical lock-in is economic (ingest + seats) and query-language, more than raw data format if you instrument with OpenTelemetry.
If you would rather not pay: SigNoz
SigNoz
An OpenTelemetry-native, single-app APM and observability platform.
Free / self-host; optional managed cloud
See all 3 New Relic alternatives comparedCompare the free options head-to-head
Read from New Relic, Inc.'s own pricing and documentation on 2026-09-23 — 7 days ago. Vendors change prices without notice; confirm before you commit.