Add-ons to APM and analytics products - verified
Honeycomb
Honeycomb is listed under add-ons to apm and analytics products. Its first listed price, in its own words: Free: up to 20M events per month (events per month). Stated or listed on its pages: OpenTelemetry ingest and tracing. Read from the vendor's own pages on October 18, 2026.
Read from docs.honeycomb.io, honeycomb.io. Docs - Pricing - Compare every tool
Status
- Status, as we read it
Generally available (inferred)inferred
No page we read labels this product GA or beta. It is sold or downloadable without a beta label, so we read it as generally available.
- Ownership, name or terms changes, as recorded
- Not stated
No shutdown, acquisition or rename notice on the pages reviewed
How Honeycomb charges
Every price line Honeycomb states, in its own words and units, with the quote. Nothing is converted.
| Price, in the vendor's words | Unit | Quote and source |
|---|---|---|
| Free: up to 20M events per month | events per month | “Free Event Volume: Up to 20M per month” |
| Pro: starting at $150 per monthinferredPlan from table layout (Pro): the quote does not name it. | plan price per month | “Starting at $150 per month” |
| Pro: starting at $150 per 50M events (up to 750M) | per 50M events | “Pro: Starting at $150 / 50M events (up to 750M) and 250M time series data points (up to 3.75B)” |
| Telemetry pipeline: starting at $0.10 per GB | per GB | “Starting at $0.10 / GB” |
Free tier and retention
- Free tier
Up to 20M events and 100M time series data points
“Free: Up to 20M events and 100M time series data points”
honeycomb.io - Data retention
- Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page
Tracing and evaluation
- OpenTelemetry / OTLP ingest
Yes, OpenTelemetry support
“OpenTelemetry Support”
honeycomb.io LLM docs recommend OpenTelemetry traces
“For LLMs, it's critical to use OpenTelemetry traces for two reasons:”
docs.honeycomb.io - Tracing
Distributed tracing
“Distributed Tracing”
honeycomb.io - Evals (LLM-as-a-judge)
- Not stated
Not stated on the LLM use-case docs or pricing page
- Online evals
- Not stated
Not stated on the LLM use-case docs or pricing page
- Datasets
- Not stated
Not stated on the LLM use-case docs or pricing page
Prompts, playground and cost
- Prompt management
- Not stated
Not stated on the LLM use-case docs or pricing page
- Playground
- Not stated
Not stated on the LLM use-case docs or pricing page
- Cost tracking
- Not stated
Not stated on the LLM use-case docs or pricing page
Self-hosting, license and compliance
- Self-hosting
- Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page (Honeycomb Private Cloud support is listed for Enterprise)
- License
- Not stated
Not stated (commercial SaaS)
- SOC 2 (as listed)
- Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page
- HIPAA (as listed)
- Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page
- Regions
- Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page
SDKs and integrations
- SDKs
- Not stated
Not stated on the LLM use-case docs
- Integrations
- Not stated
Not stated on the LLM use-case docs
Vendor claims
Scale, speed and cost statements as Honeycomb makes them. Vendor-stated, not measured.
- Vendor-stated
- Not stated
None recorded
FAQ
How much does Honeycomb cost?
In Honeycomb's own terms: Free: up to 20M events per month (events per month); Pro: starting at $150 per month (plan price per month); Pro: starting at $150 per 50M events (up to 750M) (per 50M events); Telemetry pipeline: starting at $0.10 per GB (per GB). As of October 18, 2026; prices are not converted.
Does Honeycomb accept OpenTelemetry traces?
Yes, OpenTelemetry support, per the vendor: "OpenTelemetry Support"
Can I self-host Honeycomb?
Not stated. Not stated on the pricing page (Honeycomb Private Cloud support is listed for Enterprise). License: not stated. Not stated (commercial SaaS).
Sources
- Source: docs.honeycomb.io/send-data/use-cases/llm
- Source: honeycomb.io/pricing
Last verified from each vendor's own pricing pages, docs, READMEs and license files; every quote was string-matched against the page that day. This is not a ranking. Prices are shown in the vendor's own unit and change without notice, so check the linked source before you commit.
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