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Honeybadger
Error and Uptime Monitoring for Developers
As of 30 August 2026, Honeybadger is free to use. Honeybadger combines error tracking and uptime monitoring for web applications. Softwr lists it under Logging. Honeybadger is launched in 2012, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Honeybadger does
Honeybadger combines error tracking and uptime monitoring for web applications.
What people use it for
- Exception and error tracking for Ruby, Elixir, PHP, Python and JavaScript applications
- Uptime and cron heartbeat monitoring alongside error data
- Publishing a public status page for a small SaaS product
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Honeybadger.
- The free Developer plan is limited to one user, 5,000 errors per month, 50 MB per day of logging and one uptime monitor
- SSO, unlimited teams and priority support require the Business plan at $80 per month
- Error data retention is 15 days on Developer, 90 days on Team and 180 days on Business
- Log and event retention is 7 days on the free plan and up to 30 days on Team
- Premium integrations including Jira, PagerDuty, SMS and webhooks are excluded from the free Developer plan
- S3 archiving of Insights events is not available on the Developer plan
- Uptime check frequency is capped at 5 minutes on Developer and 2 minutes on Team; 1 minute checks require Business
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Honeybadger
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Pricing
What Honeybadger costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Developer
Free
- 5,000 errors per month
- 50 MB per day logging
- 1 monitor
- 1 status page
- Single user
- Unlimited projects
Team
$26 /mo
- 50,000 errors per month
- 100 MB per day logging
- 5 monitors
- 1 status page
- Unlimited users and collaboration
- 90-day error retention
Business
$80 /mo
- 50,000 errors per month
- 100 MB per day logging
- 5 monitors
- 1 status page
- Unlimited teams and users
- 180-day error retention
Capabilities
Features
Error tracking
Uptime monitoring
Status pages
Incident management
API
Integration with API
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST
Integration with REST
Web support
Available on web
Api support
Available on api
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is Honeybadger free?
Honeybadger offers a free Developer plan permanently with 5,000 errors per month, 50 MB per day logging, and 1 monitor, supporting unlimited projects for a single user.
SourceHow much does the Honeybadger Team plan cost annually?
The Team plan costs $26 per month billed annually at $286 per year, providing 50,000 errors per month with unlimited users and 90-day error retention.
SourceWhat's the difference between Honeybadger Business and Team plans?
Both Team and Business plans include 50,000 errors per month, but Business adds 180-day error retention (vs 90-day), includes enterprise security and compliance features, and supports unlimited teams.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Honeybadger
- Company
- Honeybadger
- Based in
- United States
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