How New Relic pricing works

The New Relic pricing model is simple and relies on two primary billing factors: how much data you ingest and how many billable users you have. We'll explain where to find your billing UI, how our pricing plan works, what you get for free, and other details.

Not yet a customer?

If you're not yet a New Relic customer and want an overview of our pricing, first see our main pricing page. If you want more in-depth details about pricing, keep reading.

See your usage in the UI

If you're a New Relic customer, you can see your usage on our Plan & usage page. While the numbers are an approximation, you can use those views to get a general idea about how your consumption might affect your bill.

To find the usage UI, go to one.newrelic.com, click the user menu, and then click Administration. The Plan & usage UI page shows an overview of your usage like this:

New Relic billing factors

Our usage-based pricing model is simple, which helps you easily predict your billing. We bill on these two primary factors:

• How much data you ingest. We bill on data ingested, no matter the type, making your billing easy to understand. You can ingest 100 GBs of data per month for free. The price per GB above the free level varies depending on which data option you have: Data Plus or original. To learn more about how we bill for ingested data, see Data ingest billing.
• How many billable users you have. There are three types of users. Core users and full platform users are billable, and basic users are free. The cost per full platform user depends on your pricing edition. With our Free edition, you get one free full platform user. To learn more about how we bill for users, see User billing.

Pricing editions

We have four editions:

• Free
• Standard
• Pro
• Enterprise

When you create a New Relic organization, you start out on our Free edition. When you're ready to unlock more New Relic features and power, and ready to start paying, you'll choose either the Standard, Pro, or Enterprise edition.

Besides determining how much your full platform users cost, your edition controls access to some features and different limits. For example, the editions have different amounts of included synthetic monitor checks, and only Pro and Enterprise editions have access to Data Plus (which includes access to HIPAA and FedRAMP compliancy). Also, with Standard, you can have a maximum of five full platform users. For more on edition differences, see our pricing page.

Add-ons

In addition to the primary billing factors mentioned above, there are several optional billable add-ons. These include:

• An option to go above the default number of synthetic monitor checks
• An option to go above the default length of time your data is retained
• Vulnerability management: This is included with Data Plus, but it's an add-on without Data Plus

Free edition details

You can use New Relic free, forever. Here are some details about what you get on the Free edition:

• Up to 100 GBs of ingested data per month

• One full platform user and unlimited basic and core users

• A single account in your New Relic organization (adding additional accounts requires Pro or Enterprise edition)

For the Free edition, if your data ingest exceeds 100 GBs in a calendar month, your ingest is disabled until the next month. At the start of the next month, it may take up to 24 hours for ingest to start again.

Here are some other limits that apply on the Free edition:

• Lacks ticketed technical support
• Synthetic monitor check limits: 500 per month (compared to 10K for paid Standard)
• Dimensional metric limits are lower than for paid editions
• For the alerting workflow feature, the enrichment feature is not available

Estimate data ingest

For ideas on how to estimate your future data ingest and associated costs, see Estimate data ingest.

Billing schedule options

A New Relic organization can have one of several types of plans that govern how your billing is scheduled and implemented. Here are the main options:

• Pay-as-you-go: With this option, billing happens at the end of each calendar month. There are no payment commitments past the current month and an organization can cancel at any time. An organization's first end-of-month bill includes billable usage starting from when their credit card information was input into New Relic.
• Commitment contracts: Commitment contract options include our volume plan, our savings plan, and other options. With commitment contracts, an estimate of long-term expected usage is created and there's an agreed upon payment commitment. If an organization's usage exceeds that commitment, the excess usage is billed at the previously agreed-upon rates. These are available primarily to Pro and Enterprise edition organizations.

For more about how these options can affect your user downgrade rules, see Downgrade rules.

Understand order terms

Your New Relic order and your invoice contain several details about your pricing plan. Here's an example of an item found on a New Relic order to help you better understand what those items mean:

New Relic Volume Plan - Pro Full Platform Users

Here's a breakdown of these terms:

• New Relic: This means you're on our primary user billing version. (If this is New Relic One, that means you're on our original user billing version.)
• Volume Plan: This means your organization is on our volume plan billing schedule.
• Pro: This refers to the Pro pricing edition.
• Full Platform Users: This refers to the user type.

Here's another example of an order item:

New Relic - Pro Full Platform Users (PAYG)

The PAYG at the end means your organization is on our pay-as-you-go billing schedule.

For more details about order terms, see our license docs.

Tiered pricing

For Pro and Enterprise edition organizations with contracts: some of these organizations have access to tiered pricing for data and/or billable users. Tiered pricing means that higher levels of data ingest or billable users can unlock lower costs. The prices and tier levels will vary depending on an organization's specific contract.

Here's an example of how tiered pricing might work for an organization that has tiered pricing for full platform users:

• Users #1-10 at price x
• Users #11-20 at price y (lower than x)
• Users #21-30 at price z (lower than y)

Note that the billable users in lower tiers remain billable at that tier's cost, regardless of how many other, less expensive tiers are unlocked for subsequent users. In the example above, if the customer has 29 full platform users for the month, then the billable full platform users for the month would be the sum of: a) 10 users multiplied by price x, b) 10 users multiplied by price y, and c) 9 users multiplied by price z.

If you want access to tiered pricing, talk to your account representative.

Core user release

In January of 2022, we released a third user type: the core user. New Relic organizations created after the core user release had access to that user type and the associated changes to billing. Existing organizations had the option to enable core users by opting in via an acceptance form called the core amendment. For some organizations, this acceptance process is available on the Manage your plan UI page.

The user that accepts this amendment from the UI is stating that they're authorized to accept the terms of that amendment for their organization. Note that opting in to this release puts your organization on our primary user billing version.