Axiom vs Logz.io Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Axiom Cloud
- Always Free allowance (1 TB / 100 GB-hrs / 100 GB) included
- Automatic volume discounts on usage beyond the allowance
- Configurable retention
- Self-serve enterprise add-ons (SSO, RBAC, Directory Sync, Audit Logs)
- Compute credit pre-purchase for deeper discounts
- All integrations
- Email support (paid SLA + dedicated available)
Personal
- 500 GB/mo data loading
- 10 GB-hours query compute
- 25 GB storage
- 30-day retention
- Full APL access
- All integrations
- Community support
Log Management
- Daily Data Volume: Unlimited
- Data Retention: Unlimited
- On Demand Pricing
- Billed annually or monthly for 1.2x the cost
- Users: No limit
- API
- 24/7 Customer Support
- Dedicated Customer Success Engineer
- Dark Mode
- Public Cloud Availability
- Multi Region
- Audit Trail
- SSO / SAML
- SOC-2, GDPR, HIPAA Compliance
- PCI Level 1 Compliance
- MFA
- IP Login Restrictions
- Role Based Access Control
- Data Token Management
- Data Optimization Hub
- Warm Tier
- Cold Tier
- LogMetrics
- Telemetry Collector
- 300+ Integrations
- Sub Accounts
- Drop Filters
- Archive + Restore
- Volume & Cost Analysis
- Log Parsing-as-a-Service
- Custom Log Parser
- Data Trends Reporting
- Incident Report
- Field Mapping Editor
- Export Logs
- Product Search Bar
- K8s 360
- App 360
- Service Overview
- Service Map
- Search Filters
- Saved Searches
- Timestamp Graph
- Dynamic Field Display
- Data Visualization and Dashboarding
- Alerting
- Bulk Alert Management
- Correlate with Metrics/Traces
- Exceptions
- Log Patterns
- Prebuilt Dashboards
- Live Tail
Infrastructure Monitoring
- Daily Data Volume: Unlimited
- Data Retention: 18 months
- On Demand Pricing
- Billed annually or monthly for 1.2x the cost
- Users
- API
- 24/7 Customer Support
- Dedicated Customer Success Engineer
- Dark Mode
- Public Cloud Availability
- Multi Region Availability
- Audit Trail
- SSO / SAML
- SOC-2, GDPR, HIPAA Compliance
- PCI Level 1 Compliance
- MFA
- IP Login Restrictions
- Role Based Access Control
- Data Token Management
- Data Optimization Hub
- Telemetry Collector
- Data Filtering Service
- Sub Accounts
- Volume & Cost Analysis
- K8s 360
- Service Overview
- Service Map
- PromQL-Supported Search
- PromQL-Supported Visualizations
- Out-of-the-box Monitoring Dashboards
- Production Event Correlation
- Alert Manager
- Alert Rules
- Alert Conditions
- Correlate with Logs & Traces
- 30+ Integrations
Distributed Tracing
Agentic Observability
Axiom vs Logz.io FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Logz.io is the cheaper option, starting at $0/mo vs $25/mo for Axiom.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Axiom has a free plan. Logz.io doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Both use a usage-based model, so the comparison is straightforward — it comes down to features and limits at each price point.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Axiom: They're positioning as a cost-efficient alternative to Datadog and Splunk — usage-based with no seat tax is a deliberate shot at log management incumbents that charge per user on top of ingestion. They're going after cost-conscious engineering teams burned by unpredictable observability bills. Logz.io: At $0.92/GB/day for logs, they're not the cheapest option in the observability space — Datadog and New Relic can get expensive fast, but so can Logz.io at scale. They're positioning as a mid-market alternative to the big platforms, likely targeting teams that want OpenSearch/Jaeger-native tooling without building it themselves.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Axiom and Logz.io and let you know when something moves.