Blackfire vs Tideways
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.
Tideways
PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time.
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
Tideways
Subscription-based plans from Basic to Pro; free trial available. Pricing scales with project size and transaction throughput. Annual discounts available.
- Basic-
- Profiling
- Monitoring
- Error Tracking
- Basic Integrations (Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams)
- Standard-
- Profiling
- Monitoring
- Error Tracking
- Advanced Integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, Webhooks)
- ProContact sales
- Profiling
- Monitoring
- Error Tracking
- Advanced Integrations
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
Tideways
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- PagerDuty
- OpsGenie
- Splunk On-Call
- Webhooks
Blackfire or Tideways: 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.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.