Comparison · October 2026

Cheaper Datadog alternative for small teams

Datadog is great for seeing a large company's infrastructure, and it charges like it: per server, per product and per usage. Estiaje gives a small team what it uses every day for one flat price, and it watches what Datadog can't see: that your orders, payments and messages actually finish. Here they are side by side.

Try Pro free for 14 days No card. Afterwards you stay on Free, with your errors and logs.

Side by side

A small team: 2 servers, 10 GB of logs a month and one URL checked every minute.

	Datadog	Estiaje Inicio
Per month	≈ US$148billed annually; ≈ US$213 monthly	≈ US$11billed as $199 MXN + VAT
How it charges	Per server, per product and per usage: it changes every month	One flat price per plan
CPU and memory metrics, full APM	Yes, its strength	No
Each request's journey across your services	Yes, with APM	Yes, included
Grouped errors with stack traces	Yes, from US$25 extra	Yes, included
Searchable logs	Yes, per GB and per million lines	7 days, included
URL checks every minute	Yes, per 10K test runs	Included
Status page	With Incident Management, US$30 per seat	Included
Order or payment that never finished, with the money	No	Yes
Free plan	Up to 5 servers, 1 day of metrics	Errors, logs and 3 processes
Currency	US dollars	Mexican pesos, with a CFDI invoice for Mexico

Datadog: list prices from datadoghq.com/pricing, October 12, 2026, billed annually, before tax. The example adds Infrastructure Pro (US$15 per server), APM (US$31 per server), Error Tracking (US$25), 10 GB of logs with 5 million lines kept 15 days (US$9.50) and one API test every minute (US$21.60). Estiaje: $199 MXN plus Mexican VAT a month, about US$11 at 18.07 pesos per dollar, with 15 watched processes; your card is charged in pesos. Pro, with 75, is $690 MXN (about US$38).

What you use Datadog for, at a flat price

Errors grouped by fingerprint, with the stack trace and your code around it, new, regressed or spiking, and which deploy introduced them.
Searchable logs: console, pino or winston, without changing how you write them.
Each request's journey across your services, with the standard traceparent header.
Your URLs checked every minute and a status page that updates itself.
Your deploys, and whether one made things worse.

And what Datadog doesn't know about your business:

The paid order nobody shipped. No server complained and no metric moved, but the customer is still waiting. Estiaje alerts you with how much money is at risk.
Who needs to see it: the alert reaches whoever owns that process, even without an Estiaje account.

Which one fits you?

Stay with Datadog if…

you run dozens of servers, need CPU and memory metrics, performance profiling or its hundreds of integrations, and have a team to run it.

Use Estiaje if…

you're a small team, your system takes payments and delivers, and you want to know when that breaks without paying per server.

Or both

The Estiaje SDK sends the same events to Datadog over OTLP. You don't have to choose.

Datadog's bill grows with your servers and your logs. Estiaje's is the same every month.

Connect it in five minutes

import { estiajeFromEnv } from '@estiaje/sdk';

const estiaje = estiajeFromEnv({ service: 'store' });
estiaje.capturarConsola();   // your logs
estiaje.capturarErrores();   // errors nobody caught
estiaje.event('order.paid', { id, amount });
estiaje.outcome('order.shipped', { id });

To send the same events to Datadog, add its OTLP endpoint as another destination: here's how. Python, PHP, Java, .NET, Go or Ruby? The docs have a recipe for each.

Frequently asked questions

Can Estiaje replace Datadog?

For a small team, in what gets used the most, yes: grouped errors with stack traces, searchable logs, URL checks every minute, a status page and each request's journey across your services, for one flat price. If you need CPU and memory metrics across many servers, performance profiling or hundreds of integrations, Datadog is still better there.

How much does Datadog cost for a small team?

It depends on how many servers you have and how much you use each product. A small example, with 2 servers, APM, 10 GB of logs, error tracking and one URL checked every minute, comes to about US$148 a month billed annually, or about US$213 billed monthly, before tax (datadoghq.com/pricing, October 2026).

Can I use both at once?

Yes. The Estiaje SDK can send the same events to Datadog over OTLP, as well as to Estiaje. Each destination has its own queue: if one is down, the other keeps receiving.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. The Free plan includes grouped errors, searchable logs and 3 watched processes, no card required. Inicio is about US$11 a month and Pro about US$38, billed in Mexican pesos ($199 and $690 MXN plus Mexican VAT). New accounts get 14 days of Pro.

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