Edge Delta pricing in 2026: free telemetry pipelines, pay for storage
The independent Edge Delta pricing reference. In April 2026 Edge Delta made Telemetry Pipelines free at any scale with no per-GB throughput cost, so you pay only for stored data and AI token usage. What the vendor actually publishes, where Edge Delta sits in the pipeline category alongside Cribl and Tenzir, and an honest account of the rates that are quote-only. Updated August 2026.
The April 2026 move: a free pipeline, metered storage
In April 2026 Edge Delta announced that all Telemetry Pipelines data throughput is now limitless and free for all customers. In plain terms, moving and processing telemetry through an Edge Delta pipeline carries no per-GB licensing or throughput charge, at any scale. This was a deliberate strategic move, positioned by Edge Delta against the per-GB pipeline pricing that the rest of the category has historically charged.
The billed surfaces shifted rather than disappeared. You pay for two things: the data you store in the Edge Delta observability platform, and the AI tokens you consume. Edge Delta publishes no per-GB rates for those metered lines. As of 4 August 2026 its pricing page lists a free Hobby tier, a Pro tier at $20 per month with $20 of included credits, and a Custom tier by sales quote; the retained-data and AI-usage rates behind those tiers are quote-only.
This matters because SIEM and observability pricing is overwhelmingly ingest-metered. Splunk Cloud ingest runs about $1,000 per GB/day per year (higher at low volume), and Microsoft Sentinel analytics logs are $4.30 per GB pay-as-you-go in East US, less on commitment tiers. When the pipeline layer that reduces and routes that telemetry is free, the cost of the reduction step is not offset by a per-GB pipeline meter. You pay for what you keep, not for what passes through.
How Edge Delta fits, in three parts
Edge Delta is a telemetry pipeline. It sits upstream of the SIEM and the observability backend, between your log and metric sources and the expensive destination that meters ingest. Telemetry flows into Edge Delta, gets processed, reduced and routed, and only the data you keep reaches storage where it is billed.
Edge Delta announced that all Telemetry Pipelines data throughput is now limitless and free for all customers. The per-GB tax on moving telemetry through the pipeline was removed. The billed surfaces became the data you store in the Edge Delta observability platform and the AI tokens you consume.
SIEM and observability pricing is overwhelmingly ingest-metered. Splunk Cloud ingest runs about $1,000 per GB/day per year (up to ~$1,600 at low volume); Microsoft Sentinel analytics logs are $4.30 per GB pay-as-you-go in East US, less on commitment tiers. Every gigabyte of low-value telemetry is taxed at those rates once it lands in the backend.
The three Edge Delta pricing lines
Source: Edge Delta's April 2026 press release, "Edge Delta Makes All Telemetry Pipelines Data Throughput Limitless and Free for All Customers" (PR Newswire), plus edgedelta.com/pricing, retrieved 4 August 2026. Telemetry Pipelines are free at any scale with no throughput cost. Stored data, log search, and AI token pricing are usage-based and not published by the vendor, so this page does not quote figures for them.
Why a free pipeline layer changes the cost math
The point of the April 2026 change is that the throughput tax on the pipeline layer is removed. With a metered pipeline, filtering noise still costs money per GB before it is dropped. With a free pipeline, the reduction is not itself billed, so the meter moves entirely to the data you decide to store and the AI tokens you use. Storage volume and AI token rates are usage-based and not fully published, so the exact retained-data bill depends on how much you keep rather than on a figure we can quote here.
How we sourced this
The free-telemetry-pipeline claim and the strategic framing come from Edge Delta's own April 2026 press release, "Edge Delta Makes All Telemetry Pipelines Data Throughput Limitless and Free for All Customers" (PR Newswire). We report that as Edge Delta's stated pricing model and positioning, not as an independent benchmark. The methodology and the backend-cost analysis on this page are our own.
An earlier version of this page reported per-GB figures for Observability Pipelines and Log Search & Analytics taken from third-party pricing aggregators. Edge Delta does not confirm any per-GB rate on its own pricing page, which as of 4 August 2026 lists only a free Hobby tier, a Pro tier at $20 per month with $20 of included credits, and a Custom tier by sales quote. We have therefore removed the aggregator figures: the stored-data, log-search, and AI-token components are quote-only. Where a number is not vendor-published, this page says so plainly rather than filling the gap with an inferred rate.