Blackfire vs Parca
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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for apm tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Blackfire
LeaderA 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.
Parca
Infrastructure-wide continuous profiling that analyzes CPU and memory consumption down to individual functions, requiring zero instrumentation and operating with minimal overhead.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Blackfire
LeaderFrom €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
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Blackfire
Leader- PHPUnit
- Symfony Functional Tests
- Behat
- GitHub Education
- CI/CD pipelines
- Upsun
Parca
- Kubernetes
Blackfire or Parca: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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