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Honeycomb
Observability that's actually useful
As of 29 August 2026, Honeycomb is free to use. Observability and distributed tracing platform for debugging production systems, priced by monthly event and metrics data point volume. Softwr lists it under Technology.
Overview
What Honeycomb does
Observability and distributed tracing platform for debugging production systems, priced by monthly event and metrics data point volume.
What people use it for
- Tracing requests through distributed microservices
- Observing AI agent behavior in production
- Debugging cloud migrations in real-time
- Monitoring Kubernetes across multiple clouds
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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 Honeycomb.
- Free tier caps at 20 million events per month and 100 million metrics data points
- Pro tier starts at $150 per month for only 50 million events, with cost scaling per additional event block up to its 750 million event ceiling
- Enterprise tier's event and data point volumes are variable and its price is custom, requiring direct sales contact
- Telemetry Pipeline is billed separately at $0.10 per GB on top of the base plan price
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Pricing
What Honeycomb costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 20M events per month
- 100M metrics data points per month
- 2 Triggers
- Distributed Tracing
- BubbleUp
- OpenTelemetry Support
Pro
$150 /mo
- 750M events per month
- 3.75B metrics data points per month
- 100 Triggers
- 2 SLOs
- Single Sign-On
- Honeycomb Support
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Questions people ask
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Is Honeycomb free forever?
Honeycomb offers a free plan forever with up to 20M events per month and 100M metrics data points per month, best for testing and individual projects.
SourceWhat is the cost of Honeycomb's Telemetry Pipeline?
Honeycomb's Telemetry Pipeline starts at $0.10 per GB, with monthly or annual billing options available.
SourceCan I get custom Honeycomb pricing?
Yes, Honeycomb offers Enterprise plans with custom pricing and a base allowance starting at 10 billion events per year with dedicated support.
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