specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Highlight
providerId: highlight-io
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Observability
  - Session Replay
  - APM
description: 'Reconciled plans and quotas for highlight.io''s hosted SaaS offering. Source: highlight.io/pricing.
  Self-hosted Hobby and Enterprise deployments are licensed separately and not represented in entries here.'
sources:
  - https://www.highlight.io/pricing
  - https://www.highlight.io/docs/general/company/open-source/hosted-vs-self-hosted
plans:
  - id: highlight-free
    name: Free
    type: free
    description: For exploring the product. 500 sessions per month, AI error grouping, up to 15 seats.
    entries:
      - label: Monthly sessions
        name: sessions
        type: included
        metric: sessions
        limit: 500
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Workspace seats
        name: seats
        type: included
        metric: users
        limit: 15
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: AI error grouping
      - name: Session replay
      - name: Error monitoring
      - name: Up to 15 seats
  - id: highlight-pay-as-you-go
    name: Pay-as-you-go
    type: usage-based
    description: $50/month base. Bring-your-own-volume across sessions, errors, logs, and traces with per-unit
      overages.
    entries:
      - label: Base subscription
        name: base
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '50.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included sessions
        name: included_sessions
        type: included
        metric: sessions
        limit: 500
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included errors
        name: included_errors
        type: included
        metric: errors
        limit: 1000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included logs
        name: included_logs
        type: included
        metric: log_records
        limit: 1000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Included traces
        name: included_traces
        type: included
        metric: spans
        limit: 25000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Workspace seats
        name: seats
        type: included
        metric: users
        limit: 15
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Projects
        name: projects
        type: included
        metric: projects
        limit: 2
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Dashboards
        name: dashboards
        type: included
        metric: dashboards
        limit: 3
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: 3 month retention (sessions, errors)
      - name: 30 day retention (logs, traces)
      - name: Per-unit overages for sessions, errors, logs, traces
      - name: All integrations
  - id: highlight-business
    name: Business
    type: subscription
    description: $800/month. Unlimited dashboards, projects, and seats. Data ingest filters and custom retention.
    entries:
      - label: Base subscription
        name: base
        type: recurring
        metric: subscription
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '800.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Workspace seats
        name: seats
        type: included
        metric: users
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Projects
        name: projects
        type: included
        metric: projects
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Dashboards
        name: dashboards
        type: included
        metric: dashboards
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Unlimited dashboards, projects, seats
      - name: Data ingest filters
      - name: Custom retention policies
      - name: All Pay-as-you-go features
  - id: highlight-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    type: contract
    description: Contact sales. Adds SAML/SSO, RBAC and audit logs, custom MSAs/SLAs, data export, and user reporting.
    entries:
      - label: Contract
        name: contract
        type: contract
        metric: contract
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: 'contact'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: SAML and SSO
      - name: RBAC and audit logs
      - name: Custom MSAs and SLAs
      - name: Data export and user reporting
      - name: All Business plan features
  - id: highlight-self-hosted-hobby
    name: Self-Hosted Hobby
    type: open-source
    description: Single-host Docker deployment of the open-source stack. Free under Apache 2.0; user supplies
      infrastructure.
    entries:
      - label: Software license
        name: license
        type: included
        metric: license
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: perpetual
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Apache 2.0 (with separate license for highlight.io/ and enterprise/ paths)
      - name: Single-host Docker
      - name: Community support
  - id: highlight-self-hosted-enterprise
    name: Self-Hosted Enterprise
    type: contract
    description: Kubernetes-based self-hosted deployment with horizontal scaling, ClickHouse cluster, and managed
      retention. Commercial license; contact sales.
    entries:
      - label: Contract
        name: contract
        type: contract
        metric: contract
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: 'contact'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Kubernetes deployment
      - name: ClickHouse cluster
      - name: Commercial support
      - name: All hosted Enterprise features