A ten-service stack — 8 hosts, 120 containers, 250,000 series, 900 GB of logs — priced at the rates both vendors published on 28 September 2026: $1,068.30 on Datadog, $2,369.70 on Grafana Cloud. Every assumption stated, every rate dated.
30 SaaS pricing pages across CRM, dev, marketing, finance and HR, checked between 13 November 2025 and 28 September 2026 and read as one dated dataset: the seat fine print, the unit definitions, the free-tier caps, and the hidden lines the sticker does not say.
The December 2025 GitHub Actions pricing change, dated: hosted rates cut up to 39%, the self-hosted fee announced and withdrawn in 24 hours — and a 10-repo/50-pipeline workload priced across all three vendors.