# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-09-20'
method: searched
source: https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/pricing
sources:
- https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/pricing
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20260920T124425
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: business-product
pricing_basis: usage-other
delivery:
  delivery: managed+licensed
  method: page
  read: '2026-09-20'
  evidence: 'Plan Name: Self-Hosted Pricing: Starting at $385.20 USD per MVS per year'
  managed_tier: PayPerUse
published: true
note: Pricing per Managed Virtual Server (MVS); prices indicative and vary by country.
plan_count: 7
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Try Instana for Free
  price_text: Free trial
  period: none
  included_quota: 14-day free full access
- name: PayPerUse
  price_text: Starting at $0.03 USD per MVS hour per month
  price: 0.03
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: MVS hour
- name: SaaS
  price_text: Starting at $21.20 USD per MVS per month
  price: 21.2
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: MVS
  included_quota: Unlimited users and no limits on hosts or scale
- name: Self Hosted Old
  price_text: Contact us
  period: none
- name: Self-Hosted
  price_text: Starting at $385.20 USD per MVS per year
  price: 385.2
  currency: USD
  period: year
  unit: MVS
  included_quota: Logs in context included
- name: Instana Managed PoPs (add-on)
  price_text: Starting at USD 0.0003
  price: 0.0003
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per execution
- name: Logs in context (add-on)
  price_text: Starting at USD 0.35
  price: 0.35
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: / GB
  included_quota: retention options of 30, 60 or 90 days
rate_limit_statements:
- This fair use policy provides 325 GB of data ingestion per Standard SaaS MVS (former APM) and 50 GB
  of data ingestion per Essentials SaaS MVS (former IQM) per month.
- A standard Instana license is available on a minimum order quantity of 10 hosts