Splunk
Under review· 2Machine data search, monitoring, and security intelligence platform
Splunk has 10 plans: a free plan, paid plans from $6/month and custom pricing for larger teams. We last read its pricing page on 3 October 2026. We have not recorded a price change.
Splunk plans and prices
Workload Pricing
Custom
- Pricing basis — Aligned to types of workloads running on Splunk Platform
- Economical for low-frequency searches — Yes
- Data ingestion — Included
- Deployment — Cloud, Private Cloud, On-Premises
Ingest Pricing
Custom
- Pricing basis — Per GB of data ingested into Splunk Platform
- Economical for additional searches on ingested data — Yes
- Predictability — Simple, predictable approach
- Deployment — Cloud, Private Cloud, On-Premises
Entity Pricing
Custom
- Pricing basis — Number of hosts using Splunk observability products
- Predictable and controllable — Yes
- Use case — Observability
Activity-Based Pricing
Custom
- Pricing basis — Activities monitored: metric time series (MTS), traces analyzed per minute, sessions, or uptime requests
- Use case — Observability (APM, Infrastructure Monitoring)
- Cost alignment — Connected directly to monitored activities
Free Trial
$0
- monthly$0/mo($0 for a free trial)
- Access — Splunk Platform trial
- Duration — Limited trial period
Splunk Cloud Platform
Custom
- Manage telemetry data efficiently and pay only for what you need, no surprise overages
- Unlimited users and ability to scale to petabytes of data
- Built-in data filtering and cost controls to eliminate billing surprises
- Ultimate budget agility with Cloud Flex
- Choose from activity-based, workload, or ingest pricing
Splunk Enterprise
Custom
- Deploy in a private cloud or on-prem, even in air-gapped environments
- Choose from data-ingest or workload pricing for unlimited users
- Expand visibility by operationalizing more eligible Cisco telemetry with a weighted ingest rate of 50%
- Turn raw telemetry into complete operational context in any environment
Splunk Enterprise Security - Essentials
Custom
- Human-led, AI-accelerated defense
Splunk Observability Cloud
monthly$15/mo
Billed annually
- All your metrics, traces, and logs automatically monitored and correlated in one place
- Simple, host-based entity pricing — starting at $15 per host per month
- Pay only for what you need
- Enables predictive AI operations to boost productivity, save money
- Monitor all of your infrastructure & cloud services no matter where they run
- Fast, no-code debugging using Splunk Logs
- Gain visibility into your cloud network performance for faster mean time to resolution
- Proactively monitor site availability to detect issues before your customers do
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- Troubleshoot & optimize performance of your cloud native & monolithic applications
- Test critical user flows across multiple APIs
- End-to-end visibility of every user session on web and mobile
- Troubleshoot and prioritize actions for optimal page performance
- Pinpoint and resolve slow queries
- Proactive defense against application vulnerabilities
Splunk AppDynamics
monthly$6/mo
Billed annually
- Correlate hybrid and on-prem application performance with business impact
- Optimize traditional, three-tiered, and on-prem business application performance linked to business outcomes
- Mitigate billing surprises with data and cost controls
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Fast, no-code debugging using Splunk Logs
- Gain visibility into your cloud network performance for faster mean time to resolution
Price history
Last 5 recorded changes
| Date | Plan | Change | Old | New | Δ% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | Splunk AppDynamics | New plan | — | $6 | — |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Splunk Observability Cloud | New plan | — | $15 | — |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Splunk Enterprise Security - Essentials | New plan | — | — | — |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Splunk Enterprise | New plan | — | — | — |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Splunk Cloud Platform | New plan | — | — | — |
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