At a glance
- Deployment
- saas, byoc, self-hosted
- Licence
- proprietary
- Categories
- observability platform, tracing backend, apm, log management, metrics backend, telemetry pipeline, llm observability, rum synthetics
- Ownership
- private · s15
- Estimate
- Costed from published list prices
- Vendor-side sampling
- yes
What it charges for
Every line item recorded for Honeycomb. "Not stated" means the vendor's own page gives no number; it is never treated as zero.
| Line item | Unit | Commitment | List price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | flat-month | on-demand | $0 | s1 |
| Pro - entry tier (50M events/month) | flat-month | monthly or annual subscription (annual 'typically includes a discount') | $150 | s1, s16 |
| Pro - middle tiers (2 of 4) | flat-month | monthly or annual subscription | Not stated | s1, s16, s2, s22 |
| Pro - top tier (750M events/month) | flat-month | monthly or annual subscription | Not stated | s1, s2 |
| Pro - effective event rate (2026 plans) | million-events | rate the Pro tiers are built on, effective 2026-07-01 | $3 | s1, s2, s3 |
| Pro - legacy event rate | million-events | legacy plans; grace period to 2026-12-31 | $1.3 | s16, s2 |
| Enterprise | custom | annual; base allowance 10B events/year (EPY) | Not stated | s1 |
| Enterprise - AWS Marketplace public offer | custom | 12-month contract (AWS Marketplace public listing) | $50,000 | s21 |
| Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline | gb-processed | Enterprise add-on; 'starting at' | $0.1 | s1, s5 |
| Extended retention (beyond 60 days) | custom | Enterprise add-on, per month or per year | Not stated | s1 |
| Frontend Observability | custom | Enterprise add-on | Not stated | s1 |
| Refinery as a Service | custom | contact sales | Not stated | s7, s8 |
| Honeycomb Private Cloud | custom | Enterprise, contact sales | Not stated | s9 |
How the estimate is built
The standard deployment is priced by these components (methodology). A quantity is a formula over the workload variables; free allowances are subtracted first, and a tier prices only its own band.
| Component | Line item | Quantity | Free | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro entry tier, 50M events/month (only if events <= 50M) | Pro - entry tier (50M events/month) · per flat-month · monthly or annual subscription (annual 'typically includes a discount') | min(1, max(0, 51 - spans_million - log_events_million)) | ||
| Pro tier 50M-750M, floor at $3.00 per million events | Pro - effective event rate (2026 plans) · per million-events · rate the Pro tiers are built on, effective 2026-07-01 | (spans_million + log_events_million) * min(1, max(0, spans_million + log_events_million - 50)) * min(1, max(0, 751 - spans_million - log_events_million)) | ||
| Pro tier step-up from actual events to the tier's volume (tier sizes unpublished) | Pro - middle tiers (2 of 4) · per flat-month · monthly or annual subscription | min(1, max(0, spans_million + log_events_million - 50)) * min(1, max(0, 751 - spans_million - log_events_million)) | ||
| Enterprise annual commit, billion events/year (above Pro's 750M/month) | Enterprise · per custom · annual; base allowance 10B events/year (EPY) | (spans_million + log_events_million) * 12 / 1000 * min(1, max(0, spans_million + log_events_million - 750)) |
Example monthly bills
The same four illustrative workloads as the calculator, at list price. "At least" means a price the vendor does not state is left out of the total.
| Workload | Per month | Note | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | ≥ $315 | At least; no stated price for Pro tier step-up from actual events to the tier's volume (tier sizes unpublished) | Open Starter in the calculator→ |
| Small | unpublished | No stated price for Enterprise annual commit, billion events/year (above Pro's 750M/month) | Open Small in the calculator→ |
| Medium | unpublished | No stated price for Enterprise annual commit, billion events/year (above Pro's 750M/month) | Open Medium in the calculator→ |
| Large | unpublished | No stated price for Enterprise annual commit, billion events/year (above Pro's 750M/month) | Open Large in the calculator→ |
Capabilities
What Honeycomb offers, by the definitions in the dataset. Add-on means a separately priced product.
| Capability | Level | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Ai assistant nl query Natural-language query or chat assistant | Yes | s1, s9 |
| Ai root cause AI-assisted root-cause analysis or investigation agent | Yes | s1 |
| Alerting Alert rules with routing/notification | Yes | s1 |
| Anomaly detection Statistical/ML anomaly detection on telemetry | Partial | s1, s11 |
| Audit logs Audit log of user/admin actions | Partial | s12 |
| Byoc Vendor-managed in the customer's cloud account | Yes | s9 |
| Data reduction Drop, aggregate, dedupe, or convert logs-to-metrics before billing | Yes | s2, s6, s8 |
| High cardinality Designed for high-cardinality attributes without pre-aggregation penalties | Yes | s1, s4, s9 |
| Hipaa HIPAA-eligible (BAA available) | Yes | s1, s10 |
| Llm observability LLM/agent tracing, token and cost tracking, evaluations | Yes | s1, s17 |
| Logs Log management | Yes | s1, s3 |
| Mcp server Exposes an MCP server for agents | Yes | s1, s18 |
| Metrics Metrics | Yes | s1, s2, s4 |
| Multi destination routing Route one stream to several third-party destinations | Add-on | s6 |
| Observability as code Terraform provider / dashboards-and-alerts as code | Yes | s13 |
| Open format archive Archive in an open format (Parquet, JSON, OTLP) in customer object storage | Add-on | s5, s6 |
| Otel collector distro Ships or supports its own OpenTelemetry Collector distribution | Add-on | s6 |
| Otlp ingest Accepts OTLP (gRPC or HTTP) natively, without a proprietary agent in the path | Yes | s1, s4 |
| Pii redaction Mask/redact sensitive data in the pipeline | Add-on | s6 |
| Pipeline processing Parse, enrich, transform in flight before storage | Add-on | s5, s6 |
| Promql Query with PromQL (or a compatible dialect) | No | s4 |
| Proprietary agent required Full functionality needs the vendor's own agent (yes = lock-in signal) | No | s19, s3 |
| Rbac Role-based access control | Partial | s14 |
| Rehydration Re-ingest archived data for search on demand | Add-on | s5 |
| Rum Real-user monitoring (browser/mobile) | Add-on | s1 |
| Saas Vendor-hosted SaaS | Yes | s1, s10 |
| Sampling tail Tail-based trace sampling | Yes | s3, s7, s8 |
| Self hosted Customer can run it on its own infrastructure | Partial | s9 |
| Service map Auto-discovered service/topology map | Partial | s1 |
| Slo management First-class SLO/error-budget objects | Partial | s1 |
| Sql query SQL as a query language | No | s4 |
| Sso saml SSO via SAML/OIDC | Partial | s1, s20 |
| Tiered storage Hot/warm/cold or archive tiers priced differently | Add-on | s1, s3, s5 |
| Traces Distributed tracing | Yes | s1, s3 |
| Usage cost controls Quotas, budgets, usage attribution to teams | Partial | s1, s3 |
Sources
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