Sematext Experience Pricing 2026: From $9/mo + Hidden Gotchas
Sematext Experience RUM publishes three tiers, Startup, Standard and Pro, metered on page views per month and retention window. Startup is $9/month for 25,000 page views at 7-day retention. Retention runs from 7 days to 365 days depending on tier, annual billing takes 10% off, and Sematext's own cost calculator gives an exact rate for every published combination up to 15M page views a month.
Confirmed and corrected directly with Sematext on 16 September 2026. Sematext told us this page was wrong to show the product as quote only with retention and annual discount unpublished. We re-read sematext.com/pricing and Sematext's own cost calculator that day and they were right on all three counts. Every figure on this page now comes from those two pages, including the full tier ladder below. The pricing page is JavaScript rendered and its per-product tables sit behind tab controls, which is how the earlier version of this page missed them.
The fast facts
| Pricing model | per-pageview |
| Cheapest paid | $9/mo (Startup, 25K page views/mo, 7-day retention) |
| Per 1,000 sessions | n/a |
| Per GB ingest | n/a |
| Per 1,000 replays | n/a |
| Free tier | 14-day free trial, no permanently free tier |
| Session replay | none |
| Retention | 7 to 365 days, selectable per tier |
| Annual discount | 10% |
| Source | sematext.com/pricing |
The pricing model
Three named tiers (Startup, Standard, Pro) metered on page views per month and retention window, both published. Startup is $9/month for 25,000 page views at 7-day retention. Standard runs $19 to $209/month across the 100K and 250K page-view steps. Pro runs $89 to $2,419/month across 100K to 15M page views with 30 to 365 day retention. Annual billing takes 10% off. The exact rate for every published combination is shown in Sematext's own cost calculator, so no quote is needed inside the ladder.
What the $9 actually buys
The headline rate is $9 a month, and it is a real rate rather than a starting point for a negotiation. It buys the Startup tier: 25,000 page views a month, 7-day retention, one domain, one alert rule. Move retention up within that same tier and the price moves with it, to $12 a month at 15 days and $15 a month at 30 days. The meter is page views, not sessions, which matters when comparing against the per-session vendors on this site.
Retention is the sharper multiplier of the two. At 100,000 page views a month the Standard tier is $19 at 7-day retention and $129 at 60-day retention, a nearly seven-fold difference driven entirely by how long the data sticks around. Decide the retention window before comparing Sematext against anything else, or the comparison is meaningless.
The published ladder
Every combination below is published: the tier cards on Sematext's pricing page list the volume and retention options, and Sematext's cost calculator renders the exact monthly figure for each. Rates are list, monthly, before the 10 percent annual discount.
| Tier | Page views/mo | Retention | Monthly | Annual (10% off) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Startup | 25K | 7d | $9 | $8.10 |
| Startup | 25K | 15d | $12 | $10.80 |
| Startup | 25K | 30d | $15 | $13.50 |
| Standard | 100K | 7d | $19 | $17.10 |
| Standard | 100K | 30d | $69 | $62.10 |
| Standard | 100K | 60d | $129 | $116.10 |
| Standard | 250K | 7d | $39 | $35.10 |
| Standard | 250K | 30d | $129 | $116.10 |
| Standard | 250K | 60d | $209 | $188.10 |
| Pro | 100K | 30d | $89 | $80.10 |
| Pro | 100K | 60d | $159 | $143.10 |
| Pro | 100K | 180d | $429 | $386.10 |
| Pro | 100K | 365d | $779 | $701.10 |
| Pro | 250K | 30d | $159 | $143.10 |
| Pro | 250K | 60d | $249 | $224.10 |
| Pro | 250K | 180d | $619 | $557.10 |
| Pro | 250K | 365d | $1,019 | $917.10 |
| Pro | 500K | 30d | $229 | $206.10 |
| Pro | 500K | 60d | $329 | $296.10 |
| Pro | 500K | 180d | $729 | $656.10 |
| Pro | 500K | 365d | $1,069 | $962.10 |
| Pro | 1M | 30d | $329 | $296.10 |
| Pro | 1M | 60d | $429 | $386.10 |
| Pro | 1M | 180d | $849 | $764.10 |
| Pro | 1M | 365d | $1,129 | $1016.10 |
| Pro | 2M | 30d | $479 | $431.10 |
| Pro | 2M | 60d | $559 | $503.10 |
| Pro | 2M | 180d | $989 | $890.10 |
| Pro | 2M | 365d | $1,319 | $1187.10 |
| Pro | 5M | 30d | $859 | $773.10 |
| Pro | 5M | 60d | $909 | $818.10 |
| Pro | 5M | 180d | $1,449 | $1304.10 |
| Pro | 5M | 365d | $1,919 | $1727.10 |
| Pro | 10M | 30d | $1,229 | $1106.10 |
| Pro | 10M | 60d | $1,309 | $1178.10 |
| Pro | 10M | 180d | $1,689 | $1520.10 |
| Pro | 10M | 365d | $2,239 | $2015.10 |
| Pro | 15M | 30d | $1,329 | $1196.10 |
| Pro | 15M | 60d | $1,409 | $1268.10 |
| Pro | 15M | 180d | $1,819 | $1637.10 |
| Pro | 15M | 365d | $2,419 | $2177.10 |
Above 15 million page views a month the published ladder ends and Sematext quotes a custom plan. That is the only part of this product that is quote only.
Where the tiers overlap
- 100K page views sits on two tiers. Standard covers it from $19 (7 days) to $129 (60 days). Pro covers the same volume from $89, but Pro's shortest retention is 30 days. If you want 7-day retention at 100K page views, Standard at $19 is the only published option and Pro cannot go that short.
- Standard stops at 250K page views. Anything above that is Pro, which starts at $229 a month for 500K page views at 30-day retention.
- Long retention forces Pro. 180 and 365 day windows exist only on Pro. At 100K page views that is $429 a month for 180 days and $779 for 365 days.
- Feature gates track the tiers. Startup allows one domain and one alert rule. Standard allows three domains, ten alert rules, geography reports, on-page transactions and scheduled reporting. Pro adds unlimited domains and alert rules, sampling, custom tags, anomaly detection, webhooks and ChatOps.
The free tier, and what it is not
Sematext runs a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. There is no permanently free Experience tier, which distinguishes it from Sentry and Cloudflare. If a permanent free allowance is the requirement, Sematext is not the answer at any volume.
No session replay
The published Experience feature table lists dashboards, filtering, resource timeline, user sessions, custom charts, geography reports, on-page transactions, sampling and custom tags. It does not list session replay. Sematext Experience captures performance metrics, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript errors and custom events. Teams who need replay should pair it with a replay-specific tool or pick a RUM vendor that bundles replay, such as LogRocket, Sentry or Datadog.
How Sematext Experience compares
- Versus Raygun. Raygun publishes $80/month billed annually for 100K sessions. Sematext publishes $19/month for 100K page views at 7-day retention. The units differ, so convert first: at three page views per session, 100K sessions is roughly 300K page views, which puts Sematext on Pro at $229/month for 30-day retention. Sematext wins at short retention, Raygun closes the gap as retention lengthens.
- Versus Sentry. Sentry has a permanently free tier (5K errors plus 50 replays a month) and includes replay. Sematext has no free tier and no replay, but publishes a cheaper entry rate for pure page-view monitoring.
- Versus Cloudflare Web Analytics. Cloudflare is free and has no error tracking or custom events. Sematext is paid and captures both.
- Versus Atatus. Both target mid-market bundled observability. Sematext publishes its full ladder including exact rates; Atatus has moved to quote only, which is a procurement difference before it is a price difference.
When Sematext Experience is the right choice
- You already run Sematext Logs, Infrastructure or Service Monitoring and want one account and one bill.
- Your retention requirement is short. At 7 to 30 days Sematext is among the cheapest published rates in the category.
- You need error tracking, performance and custom events without paying for session replay you will not watch.
- You want a price you can budget from a published table rather than a sales call.
When Sematext Experience is the wrong choice
- You need session replay. Sematext Experience does not publish one.
- You need a permanently free tier rather than a 14-day trial.
- You need 180 or 365 day retention on a small budget. Long windows force Pro and the price climbs steeply.
- You run above 15 million page views a month, where the published ladder ends and the plan becomes custom.
Where these numbers come from
Sourced from sematext.com/pricing and sematext.com/cost-calculator on 16 September 2026, and confirmed and corrected directly with Sematext the same day. The Sematext infrastructure, APM and log monitoring rates live on our sister site, linked in the callout just below. For how we treat vendor confirmations, see the methodology. Next scheduled re-check December 2026.
Try it in the calculator
The RUM cost calculator includes Sematext alongside 17 other vendors. Enter your monthly page views, session replay coverage, retention, and sampling rate to see how Sematext's pricing compares head-to-head against the alternatives.
Where to go next
- Multi-vendor calculator — estimate Sematext's cost against 17 alternatives at your specific workload.
- Per-session pricing models — how Sematext's pricing model compares structurally to Datadog, Dynatrace, and Raygun.
- Quote-only vendors — the five RUM vendors that don't publish prices and the operational consequences.
- Hidden RUM costs — sampling, retention storage, replay storage, and overage gotchas across the category.
- Methodology — how we verified the Sematext pricing data shown above (verified 16 September 2026).