Yes, Honeybadger has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 5,000 errors per month for error tracking, 50 MB per day for logging and performance data, and 1 uptime monitor. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $5.00/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.
About
Honeybadger is an application monitoring service for Ruby on Rails, Elixir, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, and other platforms. It combines error tracking, structured logging, uptime monitoring, cron and heartbeat monitoring, status pages, and APM-style dashboards in one hosted product.
The free Developer plan includes 5,000 errors per month, 50 MB/day of logging and performance ingest, 1 uptime monitor, 1 status page, and 1 user. It is aimed at individual developers or small projects that need production monitoring with fixed usage limits that continue indefinitely on the free plan.
- 5,000 errors per month
- 50 MB/day logging ingest
- 1 uptime monitor
- 1 status page
- 1 user included
- 15 days error retention
- 7 days Insights retention
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a perpetual, capped Developer plan with no credit card required, so it has real ongoing value rather than a short trial. Compared with the $26 Team plan, it keeps the core monitoring stack but with much tighter limits - about 10% of the error quota, 50% of the logging quota, and only 1 user/1 monitor - so a fair buyer-style estimate is about $5/month.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to logging, exception tracking, uptime monitoring, and check-ins for one user.
- 5,000 errors per month for error tracking.
- 50 MB per day for logging and performance data.
- 1 uptime monitor.
- 1 status page.
- 1 user included on the free Developer plan.
- Unlimited projects on the free Developer plan.
- 15 days of error data retention.
See Honeybadger pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Team
- errors/month
- 50K
- ingest/day
- 100 MB
- uptime monitors
- 5
- status pages
- 1
- users
- Unlimited
- projects
- Unlimited
- Most popular features
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited projects
- 5 uptime monitors
- 1 status page
- 50K errors/month
- 100 MB/day ingest
- 90 days error retention
Business
- errors/month
- 50K
- ingest/day
- 100 MB
- uptime monitors
- 5
- status pages
- 1
- users
- Unlimited
- projects
- Unlimited
- Team management
- Advanced workflows
- SSO
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited projects
- 5 uptime monitors
- 1 status page
- 50K errors/month
Pricing extracted from Honeybadger's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Honeybadger free forever?
Yes. Honeybadger has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does Honeybadger require a credit card?
No. You can start on Honeybadger's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Honeybadger's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Honeybadger's cheapest paid plan is Team at $26 / month.
What is Honeybadger's free tier worth?
Honeybadger's free tier is worth about $5.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 54/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
