A Datadog alternative
for small teams.

It depends on the workload, so we priced one. For 10 uptime checks, 50 GB of logs, 100,000 RUM sessions and five people on call, list prices are $110 a month on Site Qwality billed monthly against $296.84 on Datadog month-to-month, or $91.67 against $248.20 a month with both billed annually. Datadog hosts and APM are not in those figures. Datadog costs less at around 20 GB of logs a month or under and with two on-call seats, and its Free plan covers up to 5 hosts at no cost. Price your own volumes in our calculator and on Datadog’s list-price page.

Datadog’s pricing page lists a Free plan for Infrastructure only: up to 5 hosts with 1-day metric retention. We found no free tier on its other product pages, which list paid prices and a free trial. The trial runs 14 days and Datadog says no credit card is required. Infrastructure Pro, with 15-month metric retention, is $15 per host per month billed annually or $18 month-to-month.

Site Qwality has one on every product, with no card: 100,000 uptime checks a month at 5-minute intervals from one location, 25 cron monitors, 100 browser-check minutes, 1 GB of logs, metrics and traces with 3-day retention, 1,000 RUM sessions, 100 detailed sessions, 100 replays, one on-call responder, 10 SMS credits and one status page. The limits are real: the free uptime plan checks from one location, and browser checks run from Virginia only.

If you use uptime checks, logs, metrics you send yourself, OTLP traces, RUM, session replay, Playwright browser checks, status pages and on-call, yes: all of those are in the product. If you rely on the Datadog Agent for host, container or Kubernetes metrics, on its 1,000+ integrations or its security products, or you need a SOC 2 report or a non-US region, no. See the stay-with-Datadog list above.

Traces go over OTLP/HTTP from any OpenTelemetry SDK or collector exporter, with your API key in the Authorization header. Logs are POSTed as JSON, NDJSON or plain text, and Fluent Bit or Vector work once their records use our field names. Metrics are POSTed as JSON gauges, counters and histograms. We document no Datadog Agent endpoint and no dashboard importer, so budget time to rebuild dashboards and alerts.

No. In its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, Datadog reported approximately 33,400 customers, of which approximately 4,720 had annual run-rate revenue of $100,000 or more, representing 91% of its ARR. That is about 14% of customers, so most are below that line. A small team can use Datadog; the question is what its per-product prices add up to for your usage.

No to both. We hold no SOC 2 report and no ISO 27001 certificate, and the platform runs in one AWS region, us-east-1. Datadog states SOC 2 compliance on its pricing page and lists sites in the US, EU (Germany), Japan, Australia and the UK. Our Security page says what we do and do not have.

Datadog lists three rates per product. For Infrastructure Pro they are $15, $18 and $18 per host per month; for On-Call, $20, $24 and $29 per seat; for API tests, $5, $6 and $7.20 per 10,000 runs. This page shows the annual rate first and the month-to-month rate beside it, and leaves on-demand out of the totals. Site Qwality has monthly and annual prices only, and an annual plan is ten times the monthly price.