New Relic APM
New Relic APM 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.
New Relic APM pricing
Free
Free
Standard
$10/user/mo
Pro
$418.8/user/mo
or $349/user/mo billed annuallyEnterprise
Contact sales
How New Relic APM 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
1 user, free tier, <100 GB ingest>
$0/mo
5 users on Standard, 200 GB ingest
$446/mo
10 users on Pro (monthly), 500 GB ingest
$4348/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
Invoice payment available
Unknown
Purchase orders supported
Unknown
MSA required
Unknown
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
Available, no card
Trust & compliance
Certifications
SSO / SAML
RBAC
Unknown
Audit logs
Unknown
Data residency
Positioning & ecosystem
“Simple, transparent pricingOnly pay for what you use”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from New Relic APM?
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.
- 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.
- All advertised tiers route to a sales contact form; an agent cannot complete a purchase autonomously.
- API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How New Relic APM could lift its score
Expose an anonymous-purchase path (no account required) for the smallest paid tier — even a $1 PAYG entry.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Simple, transparent pricingOnly pay for what you use — Get in touch or explore answers to common questions. |
| tier_count | 0 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 49 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | $0.40/GB |
| annual_required | true |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 1 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://docs.newrelic.com/ |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | {"unit_class":"data_volume","confidence":"low","agent_task_price_forecastable":"partial","rejected_reason":null,"evidence_text":"$0.40/GB"} |
| usage_headline_present | true |
| custom_tier_present | true |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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Simple, transparent pricingOnly pay for what you use — Get in touch or explore answers to common questions.
0
Yes
$49/mo
$0.40/GB
1 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
New Relic pricing starts at $0 per month for the Free plan; paid plans range up to $418.80 per user per month for the Pro plan, with data ingest billed at $0.40 per GB beyond 100 GB. 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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