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Honeycomb pricing
Honeycomb publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 29 August 2026, Honeycomb pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Honeycomb plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 8 | Entry tier |
| Pro | $150/month | 6 | +$150/month, 6 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 20m events per month, 100m metrics data points per month, 2 triggers, distributed tracing, bubbleup, opentelemetry support.
Pro
$150/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- 750M events per month
- 3.75B metrics data points per month
- 100 Triggers
- 2 SLOs
- Single Sign-On
- Honeycomb Support
Where Honeycomb stops being free
Free, Free
- 20M events per month
- 100M metrics data points per month
- 2 Triggers
- Distributed Tracing
- BubbleUp
- OpenTelemetry Support
- Canvas AI Copilot
- Agent Timeline
Pro, $150/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 750M events per month
- 3.75B metrics data points per month
- 100 Triggers
- 2 SLOs
- Single Sign-On
- Honeycomb Support
How that compares in Technology
Too few technology tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honeycomb (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Personetics | On request | quote | - | vs Honeycomb |
| Zeta | On request | quote | - | vs Honeycomb |
| Finxact | On request | quote | - | vs Honeycomb |
| Thought Machine | On request | quote | - | vs Honeycomb |
| Alkami | On request | quote | - | vs Honeycomb |
| Datadog | $15/month | - | - | vs Honeycomb |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Honeycomb badges page.
Before you pay for Honeycomb
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $150/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Honeycomb runs on not recorded. The full record is on the Honeycomb review, and the rest of the category is under best technology tools.
Honeycomb pricing questions
- How much does Honeycomb cost?
- Honeycomb publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $150/month for Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Honeycomb have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 20m events per month, 100m metrics data points per month, 2 triggers. Paying starts at $150/month for Pro.
- What is the difference between Free and Pro on Honeycomb?
- Pro costs $150/month against Free, and adds 750m events per month, 3.75b metrics data points per month, 100 triggers, 2 slos.
- Which technology tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 technology tools listed alongside Honeycomb have a free tier: Canny.
- What am I actually paying for with Honeycomb?
- The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The Honeycomb review carries whatever feature detail is available.
- Does Honeycomb charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Honeycomb prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Honeycomb against before paying?
- The closest technology tools in this directory are Personetics, Zeta, Finxact, Thought Machine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Honeycomb covering price, platforms and features.