Datadog Infrastructure Pro lists at $15 per host per month on an annual contract, and custom metrics, log ingest and indexed spans land on the same invoice. Hyperping Pro is $74/mo flat with 20 server agents, uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call included.
Datadog
Datadog is an observability platform and prices like one: per host, then per custom metric, per GB of logs, per indexed span. If what you needed was CPU, memory, disk and network per server plus a page when a box goes quiet, here is what each setup costs and where the two genuinely differ.
This compares infrastructure monitoring to infrastructure monitoring, at list price, before Datadog adds APM, logs or synthetic runs to the invoice.
About 75% less than Datadog Infrastructure Pro
Read the Alma case studyHyperping's reputation in our company is that it's more reactive than Datadog. We usually get notifications from Hyperping before Datadog.
One focused workflow for detecting issues, reaching the right people, and keeping customers informed.
The agent is a single binary with an embedded OpenTelemetry collector. One curl command installs it under systemd or launchd, it scrapes every 30 seconds, ships gzipped OTLP/HTTP, and sits at roughly 50 MB RSS with no JVM. If ingest is unreachable, samples queue on disk at /var/lib/hyperping/queue and survive a reboot.
Pro is $74/month with 20 server agents, and hosts past that are $2/month each. Datadog Infrastructure Pro is $15/host/month on an annual contract, so the same 20 hosts are $300/month before a single custom metric, log line or synthetic run.
Hyperping tracks agent liveness. When metrics stop arriving the server goes Stale, then Offline past a threshold, which opens an outage and fires your escalation policy. A host that dies at 3am reaches the person on call the same way a failed HTTP check does.
The CPU graph and the HTTP check that started paging sit in the same project, so you can tell whether an endpoint went slow because the box ran out of memory. Status pages publish from those same incidents. Full metric list on metrics collected.
A straightforward view of what each plan gives your team.
Datadog: Infrastructure Pro at $15/host/month on an annual contract works out to $300/month. On demand it is $18/host/month, so $360/month. Infrastructure Enterprise is $23/host/month.
Hyperping: Pro at $74/month includes 20 server agents, 100 uptime monitors, 3 status pages, on-call and 5 seats. Additional hosts are $2/month.
These are published list prices as of 2026. Datadog volume discounts exist and get negotiated per contract, so your quote may sit below list.
The per-host line is the part you can forecast. The rest is metered: custom metrics past the per-host allotment at $5 per 100 per month, log ingest from $0.10 per GB plus $1.70 per million events indexed at 7-day retention, Synthetics at $5 per 10,000 API runs and $12 per 1,000 browser runs, and APM at $31 per host per month.
None of those are unfair charges. They are what makes a Datadog invoice hard to predict a quarter out, and they are why most teams shopping for an alternative say the bill grew faster than the fleet did.
Hyperping meters one thing: the number of server agents. $74/month for 20, $2/month for each one after that, $1.50/month on Business.
Datadog wins outright on scope, and pretending otherwise would waste your afternoon. If you need APM and distributed tracing, log management with search and retention tiers, per-process or per-container and per-pod metrics, a Windows agent, or the 900+ integrations, Hyperping has none of those and is not building toward them.
Hyperping collects host metrics: CPU time per state including iowait, 1, 5 and 15 minute load averages, memory used and available, filesystem usage per real mount point, disk I/O per block device, network bytes per interface, plus host metadata. It pairs those with uptime checks, status pages and on-call. That is the whole product, and you can read the scope on server monitoring.
If your servers are the thing you watch and traces belong to another team, the smaller product costs about a quarter as much. If you are chasing a p99 across 40 services, stay on Datadog.
Plenty of teams pay observability-platform prices for four graphs and a disk-full alert. At 20 hosts that is $300/month against $74/month, and the gap widens every time someone adds a custom metric.
Hyperping Pro is $74/month with 20 server agents, uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call on one line of the invoice. If you need tracing and logs, Datadog is the better product and the price is what that costs. If you do not, you are renting a platform to watch memory usage.
+ time spent integrating & context-switching
The practical details teams usually want to know before making the switch.
Move from Datadog without creating a blind spot. The guides below cover setup, parallel verification, and the final cutover.
List checks, alert routes, status pages, and the historical reports you want to keep.
Use the monitoring quickstartAdd monitors, connect notification channels, and rebuild escalation or on-call rules.
Follow the quickstartCompare alerts in parallel, verify customer communication, and only then retire the old setup.
Open the go-live checklistSee the same feature-by-feature breakdown for the monitoring and incident tools on your shortlist.
