Understand your true observability cost

Compare your true observability cost

At groundcover, we believe observability costs should be predictable and transparent. This calculator estimates your total costs of ownership based on real usage data.

Cost Calculator

Calculate your total cost of ownership based on your actual usage. Our estimates include infrastructure, ingestion, and platform fees.

Reduced operational burden is not taken into account by the calculator. Those savings are significant, but we like to think you can’t put a price on sleeping through the night.

Hosts
Kubernetes nodes
nodes
1010,000
Logs
Daily ingestion
GB/day
10 GB20 TB
Traces
Daily ingestion
GB/day
10 GB10 TB
Custom Metrics
Active time series
0M50,000,000
Logs Retention
days
Traces Retention
days
Metrics Retention
days
Estimated BYOC Hosting Cost
$199,964/year
groundcover license ($30/node/month)$180,000
BYOC Hosting Total$199,964
Cloud Provider fees$12,535
Block Storage$1,200
Object Storage$6,230

See a realistic cost estimate

Select a common setup to instantly see an estimated annual cost.

$3,600/yr
($2,338/month)
TOTAL COST$32,925
BYOC Hosting Total$212,925
Estimated BYOC Hosting Cost
$199,964/year

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Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about the product and billing.

Are there other billing options?

We can customize billing plans to meet your needs. Contact sales → to learn more.  

What is considered a host for billing?

A Kubernetes host or any Linux host (of any size) that is actively monitored 
by the groundcover platform.

How does groundcover calculate the number of hosts I pay for each month?

We keep track of the number of monitored hosts in each environment, and calculate the pricing based on the average number of hosts over the past month so you pay for your average host usage, and not for short-lived peaks.

What makes groundcover’s pricing model unique?

groundcover uses a unique BYOC architecture that processes and stores all your observability data within the walls of your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This cost-effective architecture allows us to break the customary ingestion-based pricing models, offering a solution with predictable and fair pricing.

Make observability yours

Stop renting visibility. With groundcover, you get full fidelity, flat cost, and total control — all inside your cloud.