Enter your daily ingest volume and what you run today. We'll show you the flat Keel price next to a list-price estimate for your current platform — methodology and sources included.
At 50 GB/day, Keel's flat $14,800/yr Growth plan replaces an estimated $47,500/yr of Splunk Cloud spend — saving roughly $32,700 every year. And the bill stays flat when your volume spikes.
Estimate range for Splunk Cloud at this volume: $30,000 – $55,000/yr depending on negotiated discount. Estimates use published list prices and industry benchmarks — see methodology. Your actual quote may differ; we're happy to price against it directly.
Every new service, cluster, and compliance requirement adds ingest. On per-GB pricing, your bill compounds with your architecture. On Keel, the license is flat within your band — a traffic spike is not a budget event.
Volume-priced platforms layer ingest fees, indexing fees, retention premiums, and per-seat charges. Keel is one number per appliance per year, with every feature — AI included — at every tier.
Compliance teams often need logs for years. SaaS platforms charge heavily for that. Keel retention is limited only by the storage you attach to the appliance — you decide how long logs live.
These are good-faith estimates built from vendors' published list prices and independent industry benchmarks, current as of July 2026. They are not quotes. Negotiated enterprise discounts of 40–70% are common on large contracts — which is why we show a range, and why the fastest way to a real number is sending us your renewal quote.
Splunk does not publish prices — its pricing page is quote-only. We model roughly $950 per GB/day of licensed capacity per year (mid-point), with a displayed range of ~$600–$1,100 reflecting typical negotiated discounts, based on independent 2026 analyses of real-world Splunk Cloud contracts. Several published analyses put effective rates higher; we deliberately estimate conservatively.
Modeled from Datadog's published list pricing: ~$0.10/GB ingest plus ~$1.70 per million events indexed (15-day retention, annual billing), assuming ~1.3M events per GB. That works out to roughly $840 per GB/day per year, with a range of ~$650–$1,000 depending on event size, retention tier, and rehydration usage. Longer retention costs more; Keel retention is bounded only by your disk.
The software is free; running it is not. Modeled as infrastructure at ~$250 per GB/day per year plus engineering time starting at ~0.15 FTE and scaling with cluster size (loaded cost $180K/FTE) — consistent with published TCO studies that put a production 50 GB/day ELK deployment at $45K–$60K per year all-in, before incident-driven firefighting.
Published pricing, no estimation needed: $6,000/yr (≤5 GB/day), $14,800/yr (≤50 GB/day), $60,000/yr (≤250 GB/day), custom above that. Flat per appliance, all features at every tier. You provide the VM and disk — a modest cost we're upfront about, typically a small fraction of the license. Full pricing →
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