Grafana
Grafana scores 69/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.
Grafana pricing
Free
Free
Pro
$19/mo
flatEnterprise
$25000/yr
~$2083/mo equivHow Grafana scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
0 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
20 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
69 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
5k metric series (within free tier)
$0/mo
15k metric series (5k over free tier)
$51.5/mo
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Can create account
Can enter payment method
Can upgrade plan
Can buy more usage
Can cancel online
Payment methods
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
full
Purchase motion
self_serve
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Minimum commit
$25000
Minimum term
12 months
Invoice payment available
Unknown
Purchase orders supported
Unknown
MSA required
Unknown
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
Available, no card
Positioning & ecosystem
“Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it.”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Grafana?
Discover price
Select a plan
Pay per task
Avoid a sales call
API docs without auth
Estimate cost upfront
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Grafana could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Send more, charge more is broken. We are changing it. — What’s new: Grafana 13 release, the latest in AI, OSS project updates, and more from GrafanaCON2026 |
| tier_count | 3 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 19 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | true |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 0 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://grafana.com/docs/ |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | {"unit_class":"other","confidence":"rejected","agent_task_price_forecastable":"no","rejected_reason":"reject-context word found within ±200 chars (seat/period/credit/etc.)","evidence_text":"$6.50 / 1k seriesPay as you go above the Free tierSign upPlatform fee of"} |
| usage_headline_present | true |
| custom_tier_present | true |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":true,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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69
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Dashboard
Not advertised
3
Yes
$19/mo
0 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Grafana pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid Pro plan begins at $19/mo with usage rates, and Enterprise starts at $25,000/yr. Billed monthly or annually.
Free plan (Free)
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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