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Amazon CloudWatch vs FireHydrant

See how their public offers line up before you choose your own position. Prices stay in the currency, billing schedule, and charged unit each vendor publishes.

Amazon CloudWatch

USD · US · source: aws.amazon.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Free Tier
Free

Free tier

Usage · monthly free allowances Standalone · Free
Pay as you go
USD 0.3 monthly

$0.30 per custom metric/month at the first paid tier in US East

Usage · per custom metric per month Standalone · Usage based

USD · US · source: firehydrant.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Free
Free

Free

Flat · published subscription Standalone · Free
Pro Highlighted
USD 25 / month with annual commitment

$25/responder/month billed annually

Seat · per responder per month billed annually Standalone · Fixed
Enterprise
Contact sales

Custom pricing

Flat · published subscription Standalone · Contact sales

What each plan includes

Feature names follow each vendor’s own pricing page, so verify the wording before treating them as exact equivalents.

Amazon CloudWatch

Free Tier

Plan card

Logs

5 GB

Included

Plan card

Custom metrics

10

Included

Plan card

Custom dashboards

3

Included

Pay as you go

Plan card

Live Tail overage

$0.01/minute

Included

Plan card

OpenTelemetry metrics ingest

$0.50/GB

Included

Plan card

Volume-tiered usage pricing

Included

FireHydrant

Free

Official plan card

Responders

Up to 10

Limited

Official plan card

Runbooks

2

Limited

Official plan card

Public status pages

1

Limited

Pro

Official plan card

Runbooks

5

Limited

Official plan card

Public status pages

Unlimited

Limited

Official plan card

On-call scheduling and alerting

Included

Enterprise

Official plan card

Runbooks and integrations

Unlimited

Limited

Official plan card

Private incidents and status pages

Included

Official plan card

Premium support and SLA

Included

How their prices changed

Each dated row shows the public prices observed when that vendor’s pricing page changed.

Amazon CloudWatch

  1. Source
    • Free Tier: Free
    • Pay as you go: USD 0.3 monthly

FireHydrant

  1. Source
    • Free: Free
    • Pro: USD 25 / month with annual commitment
    • Enterprise: Contact sales