Datadog Cost of Revenue 2011-2026 | DDOG

Cost of Revenue is a financial metric that reflects all direct costs associated with the production of goods or the provision of services that directly led to revenue during the reporting period. It is the total amount of expenses incurred by the company to deliver its products or services, including both production costs and related expenses necessary for delivery or customer support.

What is included in the cost of revenue

Cost Category	Examples
Production Costs	Materials, wages of production staff, depreciation of equipment
Service and Support	Customer service, user support, technical assistance
Delivery and Logistics	Packaging, delivery of goods to customers
Hosting and Infrastructure	Servers, cloud platforms (especially for IT and SaaS companies)
Content and Licenses	License purchases, production royalties (e.g., in streaming services)

Importance of the Metric

Helps to understand how costly the revenue-generating process is.
A high cost of revenue may indicate:
Poor cost control
Low operational efficiency
A low cost of revenue combined with high revenue indicates high profitability and business competitiveness.

Annual Cost of Revenue Datadog

2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
687 M	516 M	410 M	347 M	234 M	130 M	88.9 M	46.5 M	23.4 M	-	-	-	-	-	-

All numbers in USD currency

Indicator range from annual reports

Maximum	Minimum	Average
687 M	23.4 M	276 M

Quarterly Cost of Revenue Datadog

2025-Q3	2025-Q2	2025-Q1	2024-Q3	2024-Q2	2024-Q1	2023-Q3	2023-Q2	2023-Q1	2022-Q4	2022-Q3	2022-Q2	2022-Q1	2021-Q4	2021-Q3	2021-Q2	2021-Q1	2020-Q4	2020-Q3	2020-Q2	2020-Q1	2019-Q4	2019-Q3	2019-Q2	2019-Q1	2018-Q4	2018-Q3	2018-Q2	2018-Q1	2017-Q4	2017-Q3	2017-Q2	2017-Q1	2016-Q4	2016-Q3	2016-Q2	2016-Q1	2015-Q4	2015-Q3	2015-Q2	2015-Q1	2014-Q4	2014-Q3	2014-Q2	2014-Q1	2013-Q4	2013-Q3	2013-Q2	2013-Q1	2012-Q4	2012-Q3	2012-Q2	2012-Q1	2011-Q4	2011-Q3	2011-Q2	2011-Q1
176 M	166 M	158 M	138 M	123 M	110 M	103 M	102 M	99.9 M	-	93.6 M	81.9 M	74.5 M	-	63.3 M	57.1 M	46.7 M	-	34 M	28.9 M	26.5 M	-	23.3 M	21 M	19 M	-	12.1 M	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

All numbers in USD currency

Indicator range from quarterly reporting

Maximum	Minimum	Average
176 M	12.1 M	79.9 M

Cost of Revenue of other stocks in the Software industry

Issuer	Cost of Revenue	Price	% 24h	Market Cap	Country
Powerbridge Technologies Co., Ltd. PBTS	6.99 M	-	2.4 %	$ 115 M	China
Adobe ADBE	2.55 B	$ 240.56	2.43 %	$ 103 B	USA
JFrog Ltd. FROG	123 M	$ 42.8	-1.25 %	$ 4.97 B	USA
Sapiens International Corporation N.V. SPNS	304 M	-	-	$ 2.43 B	Curacao
Akamai Technologies AKAM	1.73 B	$ 109.05	-4.76 %	$ 15.9 B	USA
Guidewire Software GWRE	450 M	$ 144.29	-0.27 %	$ 12.1 B	USA
Agora API	64 M	$ 3.46	1.32 %	$ 1.29 B	China
Altair Engineering ALTR	125 M	-	-	$ 9.4 B	USA
salesforce.com CRM	9.27 B	$ 184.59	2.94 %	$ 175 B	USA
Bentley Systems, Incorporated BSY	258 M	$ 34.9	0.4 %	$ 11 B	USA
American Software AMSWA	36.1 M	-	-2.14 %	$ 369 M	USA
Endava plc DAVA	292 M	$ 4.34	-	$ 2.5 B	-
ServiceNow NOW	2.98 B	$ 104.67	5.29 %	$ 109 B	USA
CyberArk Software Ltd. CYBR	208 M	-	-	$ 18.1 B	Israel
Domo DOMO	75.5 M	$ 2.93	-5.48 %	$ 106 M	USA
GreenBox POS GBOX	33.6 M	-	5.45 %	$ 43.6 M	USA
ANSYS ANSS	280 M	-	-	$ 32.7 B	USA
Avalara AVLR	206 M	-	-	$ 8.28 B	USA
Avaya Holdings Corp. AVYA	1.32 B	-	-	$ 3.47 M	USA
Paylocity Holding Corporation PCTY	498 M	$ 107.6	2.1 %	$ 5.99 B	USA
Aware AWRE	1.32 M	$ 1.21	-3.6 %	$ 25.6 M	USA
Pegasystems PEGA	421 M	$ 41.35	2.58 %	$ 7.06 B	USA
Aspen Technology AZPN	383 M	-	-	$ 16.8 B	USA
Cheetah Mobile CMCM	258 M	$ 5.6	-7.44 %	$ 8.01 B	-
BigCommerce Holdings BIGC	72.8 M	-	-	$ 371 M	USA
Everbridge EVBG	131 M	-	-	$ 1.42 B	USA
Absolute Software Corporation ABST	36.8 M	-	-	$ 811 M	Canada
China Index Holdings Limited CIH	110 M	-	-	$ 85.7 M	China
CDK Global CDK	875 M	-	0.06 %	$ 6.34 B	USA
CrowdStrike Holdings CRWD	230 M	$ 382.39	3.46 %	$ 95.8 B	USA