Observability Apm · pricing · Updated November 2026
Honeycomb pricing (2026)
Honeycomb's paid plans start at $150/mo (Pro) as checked on 2026-11-01, read from Honeycomb's own pricing page; 3 plans. Best for Engineering teams practicing observability-driven development. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $150/mo (Pro)
- Free tier: Yes
- Compliance: HIPAA — · SOC 2 — · GDPR —
- Best for: Engineering teams practicing observability-driven development; High-cardinality distributed systems where traditional metrics fall short; Teams adopting OpenTelemetry as their instrumentation standard
As of · every figure below links to its source STALE · 2026-09-26
Honeycomb plans & pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | Flat monthly | Up to 20 million events/month. Includes distributed tracing, BubbleUp, OpenTelemetry support, Canvas AI Copilot, Honeycomb MCP, 2 Triggers. Best for testing and individual projects. | honeycomb.io |
| Pro STALE · 2026-09-26 | $150 | — | Flat monthly | Starting at $150/month. Up to 750M events/month (3.75B metrics data points). Includes 100 Triggers, 2 SLOs, Single Sign-On. Monthly or annual subscription. Best for teams with a production application. | honeycomb.io |
| Enterprise | not priced monthly | — | Custom / quote | Custom pricing, contact sales. Base allowance of 10 billion events/year. 300+ Triggers, 100 SLOs, Service Map, Query Data API, AWS PrivateLink, enterprise-grade support and onboarding. | honeycomb.io |
Last verified 2026-11-01. STALE marks a plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 1 of 3 plans above is marked. Official pricing page https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing fetched 2026-06-14. HIPAA/BAA status: enterprise page mentions 'advanced security and compliance' but does not explicitly confirm HIPAA or BAA on public pages, so neither is recorded. Integrations sourced from https://www.honeycomb.io/integrations fetched 2026-06-14. This note predates a correction to the plans above, from 2026-09-26; the table holds the corrected figures.See the corrections.
Price changes
Price on record
$150/moRe-based on record 2026-10-16
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
From 2026-10-16 our record reflects a correction we published, not a vendor price move, so earlier figures are not compared with it.
Tracked since June 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Corrections to this record
Changes we made to our own record of Honeycomb, newest first: a figure read again on the vendor's page, a plan it no longer lists, a note. None of them is a price change by Honeycomb. Every correction on the site is in the corrections log.
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Pro. Price corrected from $130 to $150 (month). This row was last read on 2026-06-14. Pro card: "Pro | Event Volume: Up to 750M per month | ... | Starting at $150 per month". The record's $130 and 1.5 billion events are both superseded. Read in a browser on 2026-09-26.
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Pro. Possible price rise, unresolved. The record holds "Starting at $130/month" from 2026-06-14. The watcher found $150 fourteen characters after the plan name on 2026-09-14, and a browser reading returned only two figures from the whole page — "Starting at $150 per month" beside "Metrics Data Points: Up to 3.75B per month", and "$0.10 / GB". Two figures is not enough to say which tier the $150 belongs to: this page renders almost everything client-side and did not finish. $130 to $150 is a 15% rise and worth settling, but not from this.
Capabilities
Integrations: OpenTelemetry, AWS, Kubernetes, PagerDuty, Slack, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Tracetest.
Key features: BubbleUp: automatically surfaces statistically significant dimensions causing slowdowns or errors; Event-based wide-column data model enabling arbitrary high-cardinality queries; Canvas AI Copilot for natural-language query generation and investigation; Honeycomb MCP for AI agent observability integration; SLO tracking with burn-rate alerting.
Plan limits: Free: 20 million events/month, 2 Triggers, no SLOs; Pro: up to 1.5 billion events/month, 100 Triggers, 2 SLOs; Enterprise: 10 billion events/year base allowance, 300+ Triggers, 100 SLOs; Enterprise: AWS PrivateLink available.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Honeycomb cost?
Honeycomb's paid plans start at $150/mo (Pro), and it lists a $0 plan (Free); it has 3 published plans. Verified 2026-11-01.
What are cheaper alternatives to Honeycomb?
Cheaper observability apm than Honeycomb (entry $150/mo) include Dynatrace at $1.40/mo, Grafana Cloud at $19/mo, AppSignal at $25/mo. Verified 2026-11-01.
Does Honeycomb support HIPAA?
Honeycomb's public pages do not say whether it supports HIPAA.
Does Honeycomb have a free plan?
Yes — Honeycomb publishes a free tier.
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