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Comparison

Blackfire vs Datadog APM

On the evidence we track, Blackfire leads this comparison with a composite score of 64/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Blackfire64
Datadog APM54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Blackfire64 / 100medium · 70%
Datadog APM54 / 100medium · 61%
Pricing
Free tier
Blackfire✗
Datadog APM–
Model
Blackfirecommercial
Datadog APMcommercial
Price level
Blackfiremid
Datadog APMunknown
Transparent
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✗
Integrations
Count
Blackfire6
Datadog APM35
Security
Disclosure policy
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
Gdpr
Blackfire–
Datadog APM✓
Hipaa
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM–
Iso27001
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
Pci
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM–
Soc2
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
Reliability
Status page
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
Market
Availability
Blackfire–
Datadog APMAvailable worldwide · HQ US
Content
Faq
Blackfire6 items
Datadog APM6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for apm tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
Distributed tracing
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
Insight
Service map
Blackfire-
Datadog APM✓
Code / continuous profiling
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
Database monitoring
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
Error analytics
Blackfire-
Datadog APM✓
Real-user monitoring
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓
SLO / error-budget tracking
Blackfire-
Datadog APM✓
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Blackfire-
Datadog APM✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Blackfire-
Datadog APMOTel-native
Core
Language agents
BlackfirePHP, Python
Datadog APM-
Deployment
Hosting
BlackfireCloud only
Datadog APMCloud only

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Blackfire

Leader

A tool for testing and scraping web services, with a domain-specific language for crawling HTTP services, validating responses, and extracting data from HTML, XML, and JSON.

Independently observed

Datadog APM

A monitoring and observability service that provides real-time visibility into application performance, user experience, network activity, and logs through unified monitoring, analytics, and AI-powered investigation capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Blackfire

Leader
from €33.25/moSubscription

From €33.25/month (Development, annual) to €158.25/month (Production, annual with 2 months free). Demo environment available; free plan for GitHub Student Developer Pack members.

  • Production€158.25/month billed yearly (2 months free) or €189.90/month
    • Profiling
    • Performance Monitoring
    • Continuous Profiling
    • Alerting
    • Continuous Testing
    • +16 more
  • Development€33.25/month billed yearly (yearly only)
    • Profiling
    • Manual assertions
    • Upsun integration
as of verify ↗

Datadog APM

Subscription

Free trial available

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Blackfire✗
Datadog APM✓
iOS
Blackfire✗
Datadog APM✓
Android
Blackfire✗
Datadog APM✓
CLI
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Blackfire✓
Datadog APM✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Blackfire

Leader
6 total
  • PHPUnit
  • Symfony Functional Tests
  • Behat
  • GitHub Education
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Upsun
Independently observed

Datadog APM

5 total
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Google Cloud Security Command Center
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Google Cloud Dataflow
Independently observed
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