# Grafana

Source: https://calc.onpremeasy.com/product/grafana/

## Indicative from-price range

Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Grafana on 1 server: about $24 to $112 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Concurrent dashboard users: 50; Total dashboard panels: 500; Connected data sources: 5). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $24 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $49 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $63 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $64 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $66 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $66 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $262 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).

Reference workload:
- Concurrent dashboard users: 50
- Total dashboard panels: 500
- Connected data sources: 5

Price snapshot: 2026-10-19. Currency: USD. FX snapshot: 2026-10-19.

Configuration: Low end: 1 x basic-2vcpu-4gb (DigitalOcean, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, about $24 per server per month). High end: 1 x rise-m (OVHcloud, 12 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, about $112 per server per month).

Methodology: This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 1, the smallest baseline topology (single-node). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.

Price sources:
- [Amazon Web Services](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json)
- [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets)
- [Google Cloud](https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus)
- [Hetzner](https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json)
- [Microsoft Azure](https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices)
- [OVHcloud](https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR)
- [Servers.com](https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal)

Grafana is an open-source web application for querying, visualizing, alerting on, and exploring metrics, logs, and traces from many different data sources through a single dashboarding interface. It does not store telemetry data itself; instead it connects to backends such as Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo to render dashboards.

## Baseline topologies

- single-node: 1 node minimum; roles: grafana
- ha-pair: 2 nodes minimum; roles: grafana

## What drives the cost

- Concurrent dashboard users: Number of users simultaneously loading dashboards and running queries at peak times.
- Total dashboard panels: Approximate total number of panels across all dashboards. This drives query fan-out on page load.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does it cost to self-host Grafana?

Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Grafana on 1 server: about $24 to $112 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Concurrent dashboard users: 50; Total dashboard panels: 500; Connected data sources: 5). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $24 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $49 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $63 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $64 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $66 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $66 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $262 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west). This is an automatically generated indicative figure from public price lists (price snapshot 2026-10-19), not a quote.

### What drives the cost of self-hosting Grafana?

The sizing inputs the calculator uses for Grafana are: Concurrent dashboard users; Total dashboard panels. Cost also depends on the number of servers and the provider chosen.

### What is the minimum number of servers for Grafana?

The smallest baseline topology in the calculator's profile for Grafana is single-node (1 server). Other baseline topologies: ha-pair (2 servers minimum). The reference range above is computed for 1 server.

Size Grafana for your own workload: https://calc.onpremeasy.com/?product=grafana

## Sources

- https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana