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description: "Compare Datadog vs base14 Scout with real pricing math for 100 K8s hosts. Signal-based pricing, zero sampling, OTel-native. No per-host fees."
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name: "How much cheaper is base14 Scout than Datadog?",
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text: "For a 100-host Kubernetes team with 430GB/day of logs, 7.5B metrics, and 7.5B trace spans/month, Scout costs ~$5,375/month. Datadog's published list pricing with full indexing comes to ~$36,270/month. Most teams index less to control costs, but that means less data available during incidents.",
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# The Datadog Alternative That Doesn't Charge Per Host
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> **TL;DR:** base14 Scout is an OpenTelemetry-native observability
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> platform with signal-based pricing ($250/month platform fee +
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> $0.10/M metrics + $0.25/M logs and traces). No per-host fees,
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Datadog's pricing has more moving parts than most teams realize.
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