Data ingest: Billing and rules

For New Relic pricing, the data ingested by your New Relic organization is one billing factor.

Learn about costs

If you're not yet a New Relic customer and are curious about costs, first see our main pricing page. If you're an existing customer, keep reading to learn details about data ingest billing.

View data ingest in the UI

For how to find usage and billing information in the UI, see Billing UI.

For how to view and manage your data ingest, see Manage ingest.

Data options: Data Plus and original

Your organization's price per GB of ingested data varies depending on which data option your organization has: Data Plus or our Original Data option. The Data Plus option offers advanced data capabilities for optimized performance, scale, security, and governance. A New Relic organization can have only one option at a time.

Here's a table with comparisons of the two options. Prices and limits are monthly, and prices are in USD.

Feature/ability	Original Data option	Data Plus option	More feature details
Editions	All editions	Requires Pro or Enterprise
Data ingest free limit	100 GB	100 GB
Data ingest price (beyond free limit)	$0.30/GB	$0.50/GB
Data retention free limit (varies by data type)	Default of at least 8 days	90 days extra over default
Price for each additional 30 days of retention (beyond free limit)	+$0.05/GB	+$0.05/GB
Additional price to store data in EU data center	+$0.05/GB	+$0.05/GB	Data is stored in the US data center by default.
Max query limit	300B data points per 30 minutes	1T data points per 30 minutes and 100B per minute
Maximum query duration	1 minute	2 minutes in UI, and up to 10 minutes via API
Cloud provider choice	Single cloud provider	Azure or multiple cloud providers	Choose your preferred cloud provider for your observability workloads to align your telemetry storage with your engineering deployment model and cloud preference.
Logs obfuscation	Automatically mask known credit card and Social Security number patterns in logs.	Create and track rules directly in the log management UI, and mask or hash sensitive log data.
New Relic Vulnerability Management (full platform users only)	+$0.10/GB (beyond free limit)		Identify vulnerabilities and address risks at every stage of the software lifecycle.
FedRAMP Moderate and HIPAA eligibility (Enterprise edition only)			Achieve security compliance through configurations that help you meet your FedRAMP and HIPAA requirements.
Streaming data export			Configure rules to simultaneously export telemetry data to your AWS or Azure storage of choice. Additional export fees to the cloud provider will apply.
Historical data export			Run larger queries with no timeout for historical analysis and modeling, long-term storage, and integration with other data analytics platforms.
Azure Native New Relic Service		(with some limitations)

To see a side-by-side comparison of Data Plus and our original data option, view our Data Plus data sheet.

Interested in Data Plus? See Upgrade to Data Plus.

Azure Native New Relic Service details

With the Azure Native New Relic Service, you can collect and store your telemetry data for apps and infrastructure directly in Azure. This capability is included in Data Plus, but with these limitations:

Available in the US data center region only
FedRAMP Moderate/HIPAA eligibility not available
Historical data export not available
New Relic Vulnerability Management not available

Upgrade to Data Plus

To upgrade to Data Plus, go to the Data retention UI in the data management hub and click Edit data retention. If you meet the requirements and don't see the upgrade option, talk to your New Relic account representative.

What counts as billable ingested data?

In the context of the New Relic pricing plan, "ingested data" refers to the data saved to New Relic by your organization after we apply various data trimming and data transformation rules. In other words, it's not the amount of raw data sent to New Relic, but the size of the data that actually ends up being stored.

In general, data that we generate to provide our features doesn't count towards your ingest. Examples of features and feature-related data that don't count towards ingest include:

Basic alerting functionality and applied intelligence features. For example, NrAiIncident, an event used to generate these features, doesn't count towards ingest.
Golden metrics (for more on golden metrics, see our entity definitions).
Synthetic monitor checks. For details on synthetics billing, see Synthetics limits and pricing.
Usage and billing tracking data (for example, NrDailyUsage).
Data related to account administration (for example, NrIntegrationError, NrAuditEvent).

To understand your usage, see the usage UI.

Other calculation details

In the context of our pricing model, a GB is defined as 1 billion bytes.
Monthly data ingested is rounded down to the nearest integer. For example, if your account uses 100.9 GBs during a month, that's counted as 100 GBs.

Free tier

For details about ingest for free tier organizations, see Free tier.

For more on how to manage ingest, see Manage data ingest.
For how to estimate data ingest, see Data ingest estimator.
For how to query usage, see Query and alert on usage.