Splunk prices most of its platform and security products through custom quotes based on ingest, workload, or activity. Published rates start at $5/user/month for On-Call, $15/host/month for Observability Cloud, and $6/vCPU/month for AppDynamics, all billed annually, with free trials and a free Observability edition available.
Splunk's published prices range from $5 to $75 per month, billed annually, while its core Platform and Security products are priced by custom quote.
Here's how each product and tier breaks down.
Splunk Observability Cloud – Infrastructure
Price: Starts at $15 per host/month, billed annually
Best For: Teams monitoring infrastructure and cloud services
Other Features:
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Log Observer Connect
- Network Explorer
- Synthetic Uptime Monitoring
This is the entry point into Observability Cloud. It's a good fit if you mainly want visibility into servers, containers, and cloud services without paying for app-level tooling.
Splunk Observability Cloud – App & Infra
Price: Starts at $60 per host/month, billed annually
Other Features:
- Everything in Infrastructure
- APM with Always On Profiling
- Synthetic API Monitoring
Pick this tier when application performance matters as much as infrastructure health. It adds troubleshooting for both cloud-native and monolithic apps.
Splunk Observability Cloud – End-to-End
Price: Starts at $75 per host/month, billed annually
Other Features:
- Everything in App & Infra
- Real User Monitoring
- Synthetic Browser Monitoring
- Database Monitoring and Secure Application available as optional add-ons
This is the full-package tier for teams that also want user-session visibility. If you only need infrastructure metrics, the lower tiers will cost far less.
Splunk AppDynamics – Infrastructure Edition
Price: Starts at $6 per vCPU/month, billed annually
Other Features:
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Add-ons available separately
This edition suits teams that want AppDynamics' monitoring foundation at the lowest listed cost.
Splunk AppDynamics – Premium Edition
Price: Starts at $33 per host/month, billed annually
Other Features:
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Database Monitoring
- Log Observability
Premium makes sense when you need to tie hybrid and on-prem app performance to business impact.
Splunk AppDynamics – Enterprise Edition
Price: Starts at $50 per host/month, billed annually
Other Features:
- Everything in Premium
- Transaction Analytics
- Add-ons: Application Security ($13.75/month per CPU core), Real User Monitoring ($0.06 per 1,000 tokens), Browser Synthetics ($12 per test location), SAP ($95 per CPU core)
Go Enterprise if transaction analytics across complex business applications is a must-have.
Splunk On-Call
Price: Starts at $5 per user/month, billed annually (up to 10 seats)
Best For: Small teams managing on-call schedules
Other Features:
- 100+ IT service management integrations
- Streamlined escalation policies
- Free trial available
This is the most accessible way in. It routes incidents to the right person fast, so nothing sits unresolved. 🎯
Splunk Cloud Platform
Price: Custom quote (activity-based, ingest, or workload pricing)
Other Features:
- Unlimited users
- Scales to petabytes of data
- Cloud Flex lets you shift spend across Splunk products
- Eligible Cisco telemetry counts at a 0.5x weighted ingest rate
- Free trial available
Splunk Enterprise
Price: Custom quote (data-ingest or workload pricing)
Other Features:
- Unlimited users
- Runs on-prem, in private cloud, or in air-gapped environments
- Eligible Cisco telemetry counts at a 50% weighted ingest rate
- Free trial available
Splunk Enterprise Security
Price: Custom quote (activity-based, workload, or ingest pricing)
Other Features:
- Two editions: Essentials and Premier
- Both include SIEM, threat intelligence, Detection Studio, and Exposure Analytics
- Premier adds SOAR, UEBA, and Automated Threat Analysis
Essentials is built for human-led, AI-accelerated defense. Premier targets teams ready for adaptive, autonomous security operations.
Trials and buying: Splunk offers a free edition of Observability Cloud, plus free trials for Cloud Platform, Enterprise, SOAR, AppDynamics, and On-Call — though trial length isn't published on the pricing page. Every purchase includes standard support, and volume discounts are available. There's no money-back guarantee listed, so confirm your license limits and expected data volumes with a Splunk expert before committing.