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
Honeycomb’s Free plan is explicitly “free forever” but capped at up to 20M events/month and up to 100M Honeycomb Metrics data points/month, so it is a capped free tier rather than unbounded free. The cheapest paid plan is Pro at $130/month; because the free tier is capped and the page does not provide a direct per-unit overage price for the free allowance, a conservative free-tier value cannot be reliably prorated from the page alone, so it is set to null. Feature parity is about 50% because several higher-tier capabilities are gated in Pro/Enterprise (for example SSO, more Triggers, SLOs, Service Map, and enterprise support), while core observability features remain in Free.
What's included in the free tier
- 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 1.5B
- time series data points per month
- up to 7.5B
- 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 year
- base allowance of 10 billion
- 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.
