Yes, Honeycomb has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes up to 20M events per month, 2 Triggers, and Honeycomb Metrics, up to 100M data points per month. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $45/mo.
About
Honeycomb is an observability platform for collecting and querying logs, metrics, traces, and other structured telemetry. It supports distributed tracing, BubbleUp analysis, OpenTelemetry ingestion, query history, permalinks, and Honeycomb Metrics.
The free plan includes up to 20M events per month, distributed tracing, BubbleUp, OpenTelemetry support, team query history, query result permalinks, Honeycomb Metrics, and 2 triggers. It is aimed at testing and individual projects, with the free allowance renewing monthly rather than expiring after a trial period.
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable for small projects: it includes substantial monthly volume plus core capabilities like tracing, BubbleUp, OpenTelemetry, and several AI/agent features, and it is offered free forever. Compared with the cheapest paid plan at $150/month, the free tier feels worth about 30% of Pro’s value, so roughly $45/month; a credit card is required to sign up, which adds some friction but does not change the fact that the plan is perpetual and capped.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Up to 20M events per month.
- 2 Triggers.
- Distributed Tracing.
- BubbleUp.
- OpenTelemetry Support.
- Team Query History.
- Query Result Permalinks.
- Honeycomb Metrics, up to 100M data points per month.
- Honeycomb Intelligence.
See Honeycomb pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro
- events per month
- Up to 750M
- metrics data points per month
- Up to 3.75B
- triggers
- 100
- SLOs
- 2
- All features from the Free Plan
- 100 Triggers
- 2 Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Single-Sign On (SSO)
- Honeycomb Support
- Monthly or Annual Subscription
Enterprise
- events per month
- Variable
- metrics data points per month
- Variable
- triggers
- Starts with 300
- SLOs
- Starts with 100
- All features from the Pro Plan
- Starts with 300 Triggers
- Starts with 100 SLOs
- Service Map
- Enterprise Support for Refinery
- Enterprise-Grade Support + Onboarding
- Query Data API
- AWS PrivateLink
Pricing extracted from Honeycomb's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Honeycomb free forever?
Yes. Honeycomb has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Honeycomb's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Honeycomb's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $150 / month.
What is Honeycomb's free tier worth?
Honeycomb's free tier is worth about $45 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 61/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
