LogicMonitor pricing and cost per hybrid unit
LogicMonitor publishes a price per hybrid unit and leaves you to work out how many units you are. Enter your devices, cloud resources and access points, and the calculator converts them, prices every package and counts what your website checks would meter.
LogicMonitor cost calculator
LivePackage rates and the hybrid unit definition read from logicmonitor.com/pricing; a la carte rates from its additional pricing page; LM Uptime metering from its usage reporting documentation. USD list, before minimum quantities and discounts. Fractional units are rounded up.
How much does LogicMonitor cost?
LogicMonitor sells three packages priced per hybrid unit per month: Essentials at $16, Advanced at $27 and Signature plus Edwin AI at $53, which is $192, $324 and $636 per unit a year. One hybrid unit covers one collector-monitored device, one cloud VM, seven cloud PaaS resources or five wireless access points. A 50-device, 10-VM estate with 21 PaaS resources and 20 access points is 67 units: $12,864 a year on Essentials, $21,708 on Advanced and $42,612 on Signature. Website uptime checks (LM Uptime) are included from Advanced up and are metered in blocks of 10,000 check runs.
The package prices are public. The hard part is the multiplier: the pricing page tells you what a hybrid unit costs, and the count of units comes out of a scoping call. You do not need the call to get close. The unit definition is on the same page, the a la carte list is one click away, and LM Uptime's metering is in the support docs. Put the three together and you can size a quote before you ask for one, which is the best position to negotiate from.
The short version
- Per hybrid unit, per month
- $16 Essentials, $27 Advanced, $53 Signature
- Per unit, per year
- $192, $324 and $636
- One unit covers
- 1 device, 1 cloud VM, 7 PaaS resources or 5 access points
- Website checks
- LM Uptime, included from Advanced, 10,000 runs per unit
- Trial
- 15 days on any package
- Not published
- Minimum quantities, overage rate, LM Uptime unit price
What one LogicMonitor hybrid unit buys
LogicMonitor used to price each resource type separately. The platform packages fold them into one pool, and the exchange rate is fixed: each of the four tiles below costs exactly one hybrid unit.
1
On-prem device
A server, switch, firewall or storage array watched through a LogicMonitor collector.
1
Cloud VM (IaaS)
An EC2 instance, Azure VM or scale set VM, GCP Compute Engine or OCI instance.
7
Cloud PaaS resources
Lambda functions, ECS clusters, Kubernetes and other compute-based managed services.
5
Wireless access points
Meraki, Mist, Aruba Central, Extreme or UniFi access points.
| Resource | A la carte list, per month | On Essentials | On Advanced | On Signature |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Device or cloud VM | $22.00 | $16.00 (27.3% less) | $27.00 (22.7% more) | $53.00 |
| Cloud PaaS resource | $3.00 | $2.29 (23.8% less) | $3.86 (28.6% more) | $7.57 |
| Wireless access point | $4.00 | $3.20 (20.0% less) | $5.40 (35.0% more) | $10.60 |
Two things fall out of that table. First, LogicMonitor's own a la carte list sits between the packages: Essentials undercuts it on every resource type, Advanced costs more on every one. Second, the exchange rate is not arbitrary. On the a la carte list a device costs 7.33 times a PaaS resource ($22 against $3) and 5.5 times an access point ($22 against $4). The hybrid unit uses 7 and 5, the same ratios rounded down. Rounding down in the device's favor is why the package discount is largest on devices (27.3%) and smallest on access points (20.0%). If your estate is mostly Wi-Fi, the packages save you less than the headline suggests.
LogicMonitor Essentials vs Advanced vs Signature, and what the step up buys
Every package includes hybrid infrastructure monitoring, LM Logs, automated discovery, topology, config and NetFlow monitoring, SMS alerting, dashboards and reporting, the 3,000-plus integrations and basic support. The differences are in the rows below, read cell by cell from the comparison table on the pricing page.
Essentials
$16
per hybrid unit a month, $192 a year
Core monitoring and logs. No dynamic thresholds, anomaly detection, dependency mapping, forecasting, sandbox or remote sessions. LM Uptime, service insights, diagnostics and Data Publisher are paid add-ons.
Advanced
$27
per hybrid unit a month, $324 a year
$11 more per unit, 68.75% over Essentials. Adds LM Uptime, Dynamic Service Insights, automated diagnostics and remediation, Data Publisher, the ML alerting features, remote sessions and a sandbox up to 10% of paid capacity. Edwin AI event intelligence becomes an add-on.
Signature + Edwin AI
$53
per hybrid unit a month, $636 a year
$26 more than Advanced, 3.31 times Essentials. Adds Edwin AI event intelligence, SaaS application monitoring, cloud cost optimization and the ServiceNow CMDB integration. Edwin AI agents and automation stay add-ons.
The jump that matters for most buyers is Essentials to Advanced. Signature nearly doubles the Advanced bill for features aimed at large operations teams (AI event correlation, a CMDB sync), and is usually a decision for organizations that already run ServiceNow. Advanced is where the alerting gets smarter and where website checks come included, so if you would otherwise buy LM Uptime as an add-on on Essentials, price both before you choose. Three capabilities sit outside every package: LM Synthetics and Internet Performance, LM Real User Monitoring and LM Endpoint Monitoring, all from LogicMonitor's Catchpoint acquisition.
One website checked every minute uses five LM Uptime units
LM Uptime is LogicMonitor's website and endpoint check product, with Web Checks and Ping Checks. Its billing is not per monitored site. LogicMonitor's usage documentation says the bill is the monthly total of check executions across every check, and that each LM Uptime unit includes up to 10,000 of them. The fastest interval is once a minute.
So the interval is the price. A minute is 1,440 runs a day, 43,200 in a 30-day month and 44,640 in a 31-day one: 4.32 to 4.46 units for a single URL, which is five units once you round up. Stretch the same check to five minutes and it is 8,640 runs, inside one unit. Twenty URLs at one-minute checks come to 864,000 runs and 87 units; at five minutes, 172,800 runs and 18 units.
What LogicMonitor does not publish is the price of an LM Uptime unit or how many units Advanced includes. Nor does the documentation say whether a check run from several test locations counts once or once per location. Those three numbers decide your website monitoring bill, so get them in the quote.
Check runs per URL per month
30-day month, one location. Each unit holds 10,000 runs, pooled across all your checks.
LogicMonitor add-on prices outside the packages
These are listed on the additional pricing page, billed annually, US prices only. None of them is included in any package.
| Product | List price | Unit | One unit for a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| LM Synthetics and Internet Performance, 13 months storage | $1,474 a month | 100,000 on-demand points | $17,688 |
| LM Synthetics, 3 years storage | $1,658 a month | 100,000 on-demand points | $19,896 |
| LM Real User Monitoring with Session Replay | $250 a month | 1 million page views | $3,000 |
| LM Endpoint Monitoring | $6.50 a month | 1 employee endpoint device | $78 |
| Dedicated Single Tenant | $6,667 a month | 1 isolated tenant | $80,004 |
The synthetic monitoring line is the one to read carefully. It is a separate product from LM Uptime: full synthetic transactions and internet-path testing, priced in blocks of 100,000 points at $17,688 a year for the smallest block. Three-year retention costs 12.5% more. For comparison, the rate cards of the dedicated synthetic tools are collected in our synthetic monitoring pricing breakdown. If all you need is to know that a URL answers with a 200 in under a second, you do not need either product.
Where LogicMonitor is worth the money, and where a device license is the wrong unit
LogicMonitor is a serious hybrid observability platform. It discovers a mixed estate on its own, watches network gear, servers, cloud and logs in one place, and it is SaaS, so there is no monitoring server to patch. For an IT team running a few hundred devices across a data center and two clouds, $192 to $324 a device a year buys a lot. It is also dearer per device than the self-hosted tools: PRTG's entry license works out to $48 a device a year (see our PRTG pricing breakdown), and a 100-node Nagios XI license with renewals runs about $22 a node a year over five years, before the server and the admin time those two need.
Public websites and APIs are where the model stops fitting. To get website checks included you need Advanced, the checks are metered by the run, the fastest interval is a minute, and none of it produces a status page your customers can read.
| The job | LogicMonitor | UptimeHub |
|---|---|---|
| Servers, switches, cloud resources, logs | Built for exactly this | Not what we do: we check from outside |
| Billing for website checks | Per 10,000 check runs, unit price not published | Per monitor, flat, with the interval included |
| Fastest check | Once a minute | Every 30 seconds on Pro and Business |
| 20 sites checked every minute | About 87 LM Uptime units on top of an Advanced contract | Starter, $9 a month billed yearly |
| Public status page for customers | Internal dashboards | Branded status page on every plan |
| How you buy | Annual contract, minimums set in the quote | Self-serve, published prices |
The honest recommendation is to split the job. Keep LogicMonitor, or whichever infrastructure platform you choose, for the estate. Put the customer-facing endpoints on UptimeHub, which checks sites, APIs, ports, SSL certificates and cron jobs from six regions and powers a branded status page. That can keep you on Essentials instead of paying the Advanced premium on every hybrid unit just to get website checks.
Where these numbers come from, and what is deliberately not claimed
Package prices, the hybrid unit definition, the package comparison table, the trial, the sandbox allowance and the Catchpoint note come from logicmonitor.com/pricing, which describes its figures as starting monthly list prices based on standard minimum quantities and terms. The a la carte and add-on prices and the overage rule come from logicmonitor.com/pricing/additional-pricing, marked billed annually and US prices only. LM Uptime metering comes from LogicMonitor's usage reporting documentation. Every total, ratio and per-resource figure here is arithmetic on those numbers.
Not asserted: minimum quantities, contract discounts, the on-demand overage rate, the LM Uptime unit price and the allowance included in Advanced, whether multi-location checks count once or per location, how fractional hybrid units are rounded, and the price of the Edwin AI add-ons. Treat the calculator as the list-price ceiling for a quote, not as the quote.
LogicMonitor pricing questions
How much does LogicMonitor cost?
LogicMonitor lists its packages at $16 (Essentials), $27 (Advanced) and $53 (Signature plus Edwin AI) per hybrid unit per month, which is $192, $324 and $636 per unit a year. Your bill is that rate times the units your estate uses, subject to minimum quantities LogicMonitor does not publish. A 67-unit estate runs $12,864 to $42,612 a year.
What is a hybrid unit in LogicMonitor?
A hybrid unit is LogicMonitor's common licensing unit across resource types. One unit equals one on-prem device monitored through a collector, one cloud IaaS resource such as an EC2 or Azure VM, seven cloud PaaS resources, or five wireless access points. You buy a pool of units and can shift it between those types as your environment changes.
How much does LogicMonitor cost per device?
On the packages, one monitored device is one hybrid unit, so it costs $16, $27 or $53 a month, or $192, $324 and $636 a year. LogicMonitor also lists an a la carte infrastructure price of $22 per resource per month, billed annually, which sits between Essentials and Advanced.
Is LM Uptime included in LogicMonitor?
LM Uptime, the website and endpoint check product, is included in the Advanced and Signature packages and is a paid add-on on Essentials. It is metered by check executions: each LM Uptime unit covers up to 10,000 runs a month, summed across every Web Check and Ping Check you run.
How is LM Uptime billed?
LM Uptime is billed on the total number of check executions in the month, not on how many sites you monitor. Each unit includes up to 10,000 executions. One URL checked every minute uses 43,200 runs in a 30-day month, about five units; checked every five minutes it uses 8,640, which fits in one unit.
Does LogicMonitor have a free trial?
Yes. LogicMonitor offers a 15-day trial on any of its three packages. There is no permanent free tier on the pricing page, and paid packages are sold with minimum quantities and terms that are set in the quote rather than published.
What is the difference between LogicMonitor Essentials and Advanced?
Advanced costs $11 more per hybrid unit, 68.75% on top of Essentials. For that it adds LM Uptime, Dynamic Service Insights, automated diagnostics and remediation, Data Publisher, dynamic thresholds, anomaly detection, dependency mapping, forecast visualizations, remote sessions and a sandbox portal sized at up to 10% of paid capacity.
What happens if I exceed my LogicMonitor license?
LogicMonitor says customers who exceed their committed entitlement are charged at their on-demand contracted rate. That rate is part of your contract, not the public price list, so ask for it in writing before you sign, especially if your cloud footprint scales up and down.
How much does LogicMonitor Synthetics cost?
LM Synthetics and Internet Performance, built on Catchpoint, is an add-on on every package at $1,474 per unit per month with 13 months of storage, or $1,658 with three years. One unit is 100,000 on-demand points, and at list price that is $17,688 a year before any other LogicMonitor spend.
Is LogicMonitor worth it just for website monitoring?
Rarely. LogicMonitor earns its price watching servers, network gear, cloud resources and logs. For website checks alone you would buy at least Advanced, pay for hybrid units you do not need, and meter every check run. A dedicated external uptime tool prices per monitor, checks faster than once a minute and includes a status page.
Website checks should not cost you a package upgrade
UptimeHub checks your sites, APIs and ports from outside your network, every 30 seconds on Pro and above, confirms a failure from a second region before it alerts anyone, watches SSL and domain expiry, and includes a branded status page on every plan. Priced per monitor, never per check run.
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