specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Chronosphere
providerId: chronosphere
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-29'
generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://chronosphere.io/ (footer and navigation, no pricing link),
  https://chronosphere.io/pricing and https://chronosphere.io/pricing/ (both HTTP 404),
  https://chronosphere.io/demo-request/ (HTTP 200),
  https://docs.chronosphere.io/administer/limits-licensing/licensing,
  /administer/limits-licensing/concepts/capacity-licensing and
  /administer/limits-licensing/concepts/consumption-licensing, all fetched 2026-08-29.
tags:
  - AIOps
  - Observability
description: >-
  Chronosphere publishes no plans, no tiers and no prices. There is no pricing page on
  chronosphere.io — /pricing and /pricing/ both return 404 and no navigation or footer link
  exists — and the only commercial call to action is "Request a Demo". Commercial terms are
  negotiated per contract. What IS public is the shape of the meter, documented for existing
  customers, and that is recorded below because it tells a buyer what they will be charged
  against even though it does not tell them the rate.
plan_count: 0
plans: []
public_pricing: false
self_serve_signup: false
free_tier: false
trial_published: false
sales_motion:
  entry_point: https://chronosphere.io/demo-request/
  http_status: 200
  form: Request a Demo
  note: >-
    No self-service sign-up, no published free tier, no credit-card path. Access to the API
    requires an existing Observability Platform tenant, which is why the API base URL is a
    per-customer subdomain.
tools_published:
- name: Business Value Calculator
  note: Marketing-side ROI calculator; produces no price.
- name: Migration Timeline Estimator
- name: Migration calculator
  url: https://chronosphere.io/migration-calculator/
licensing_model:
  documented: true
  docs: https://docs.chronosphere.io/administer/limits-licensing/licensing
  models:
  - name: Capacity licensing
    docs: https://docs.chronosphere.io/administer/limits-licensing/concepts/capacity-licensing
    basis: >-
      Contracted capacity per license dimension. Quotas split the total system-persisted writes
      per second into per-pool allocations, and quotas determine which data drops first when
      capacity is exceeded.
    dimensions:
    - name: Standard Metrics License
      measures:
      - aggregations
      - persisted writes
      - persisted cardinality
      applies_to:
      - cumulative counter
      - delta counter
      - gauge
      - legacy Prometheus histograms and OTel explicit-bucket histograms (persisted as counters)
    - name: Histogram Metrics License
      measures:
      - aggregations
      - persisted writes
      - persisted cardinality
      applies_to:
      - cumulative exponential histogram
      - delta exponential histogram
      - Prometheus native histograms
  - name: Consumption licensing
    docs: https://docs.chronosphere.io/administer/limits-licensing/concepts/consumption-licensing
    basis: Metered consumption against contracted license dimensions.
  telemetry_dimensions:
  - metrics
  - logs
  - traces
  - events
  in_product_visibility: >-
    A License Overview page inside each tenant (Admin > License Overview) shows current
    consumption against contract limits, with Snapshot and Trends tabs, and flags dimensions at or
    near capacity. Exceeding a license dimension risks data being dropped.
  api_surface:
    note: >-
      Cost control is itself an API. ConsumptionBudget, ConsumptionConfig, ResourcePools,
      LogAllocationConfig and the DropRule/RollupRule/MappingRule family are all Config V1
      resources, and the State V1 API exposes metric usage by metric name and by label name. A
      customer can automate against their own consumption even though they cannot see a price.
    operations:
    - ListConsumptionBudgets
    - ReadConsumptionBudget
    - CreateConsumptionBudget
    - UpdateConsumptionBudget
    - DeleteConsumptionBudget
    - ReadConsumptionConfig
    - UpdateConsumptionConfig
    - ListMetricUsagesByMetricName
    - ListMetricUsagesByLabelName
provenance_note: >-
  This file replaces a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that invented three tiers (Free /
  Professional / Enterprise) with placeholder quotas and TBD prices. None of that was published by
  Chronosphere and none of it was true. plan_count 0 is the measured answer.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com