Comparison

Blackfire vs Lumigo

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

Lumigo53

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	BlackfireLeader	Lumigo
Vioscale score	64 / 100medium · 72%	53 / 100medium · 73%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✗	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	mid	low
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✗
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	6	5
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	-
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	✓	-
Pcisecurity.pci	✓	-
Soc2security.soc2	✓	✓
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓

Score

Vioscale score

Blackfire64 / 100medium · 72%

Lumigo53 / 100medium · 73%

Pricing

Free tier

Blackfire✗

Lumigo✓

Model

Blackfirecommercial

Lumigofreemium

Price level

Blackfiremid

Lumigolow

Transparent

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✗

Integrations

Count

Blackfire6

Lumigo5

Security

Disclosure policy

Blackfire✓

Lumigo–

Gdpr

Blackfire–

Lumigo✓

Hipaa

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✓

Iso27001

Blackfire✓

Lumigo–

Pci

Blackfire✓

Lumigo–

Soc2

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✓

Reliability

Status page

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✓

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for APM Tools
Capability	Blackfire	Lumigo
Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation	✓	✓
Distributed tracing	✓	✓
Insight
Service map	-	✓
Code / continuous profiling	✓	-
Database monitoring	✓	-
Error analytics	-	✓
Real-user monitoring	✓	-
SLO / error-budget tracking	-	-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI	-	✓
Standards
OpenTelemetry support	-	OTel-native
Core
Language agents	PHP, Python	-
Deployment
Hosting	Cloud only	Cloud + self-hosted

Instrumentation

Auto-instrumentation

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✓

Distributed tracing

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✓

Insight

Service map

Blackfire-

Lumigo✓

Code / continuous profiling

Blackfire✓

Lumigo-

Database monitoring

Blackfire✓

Lumigo-

Error analytics

Blackfire-

Lumigo✓

Real-user monitoring

Blackfire✓

Lumigo-

SLO / error-budget tracking

Blackfire-

Lumigo-

Intelligence

Anomaly / root-cause AI

Blackfire-

Lumigo✓

Standards

OpenTelemetry support

Blackfire-

LumigoOTel-native

Core

Language agents

BlackfirePHP, Python

Lumigo-

Deployment

Hosting

BlackfireCloud only

LumigoCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

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

Blackfire

Leader

Blackfire is an Application Performance Management platform offering both monitoring and profiling solutions for PHP and Python applications. It helps teams identify performance bottlenecks, optimize code, and prevent production crises with automated profiling and actionable recommendations.

Independently observed

Lumigo

Lumigo is an AI-powered observability platform providing root cause analysis, distributed tracing, and log management for microservice environments across AWS, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry.

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 2026-08-13verify ↗

Lumigo

from $119/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $99/mo (annual). Free tier with 150k traces/mo. 14-day free trial.

BasicFree
- 150k Traces/mo
- 14 Day Trace Retention
- 5GB/mo Logs
- 3 Days Log Retention
- 5GB/mo Metrics
- +3 more
Standard$99/mo annual, $119/mo monthly
- 1M Traces/mo
- 14 Day Trace Retention
- 40GB/mo Logs
- 7 Days Log Retention
- 40GB/mo Metrics
- +4 more
Plus$299/mo annual, $359/mo monthly
- 5M Traces/mo
- 14 Day Trace Retention
- 100GB/mo Logs
- 30 Days Log Retention
- 100GB/mo Metrics
- +4 more
CustomContact sales
- Custom Traces
- Custom Trace Retention
- Custom Log Volume
- Custom Log Retention
- Custom Metrics
- +9 more

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Blackfire	Lumigo
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✗
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✓

CLI

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✗

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Blackfire✓

Lumigo✓

Self-hosted

Blackfire✗

Lumigo✓

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

Lumigo

5 total

Kubernetes
AWS
OpenTelemetry
Serverless Framework
CircleCI

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.