vioscaleAI
Comparison

Honeycomb vs Uptrace

No clear leader: Honeycomb (59.4) and Uptrace (57.4) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Honeycomb59
Uptrace57
Score
vioscaleAI score
Honeycomb59 / 100medium · 72%
Uptrace57 / 100medium · 69%
Pricing
Free tier
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Model
Honeycombfreemium
Uptracefreemium
Price level
Honeycomblow
Uptracelow
Starting price
Honeycomb–
Uptrace$0.03
Transparent
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Integrations
Count
Honeycomb19
Uptrace10
Security
Certifications
HoneycombSOC 2 Type II
Uptrace–
Gdpr
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Soc2
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Honeycomb–
Uptrace99.9
Status page
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Honeycomb–
Uptrace0
Github stars
Honeycomb–
Uptrace4,303
Package downloads weekly
Honeycomb–
Uptrace1,716
Activity
Commits last 30d
Honeycomb–
Uptrace5
Release
Cadence days
Honeycomb–
Uptrace11
History
Honeycomb–
Uptrace20 items
License
Spdx
Honeycomb–
UptraceAGPL-3.0
Language
Primary
Honeycomb–
UptraceGo
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Honeycomb7 items
Uptrace8 items

Capabilities

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

Core
Trace role
HoneycombTrace backend / store
UptraceSaaS platform
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
HoneycombOTel-native
UptraceOTel-native
Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP)
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Query
Trace search / filter by attributes
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Service dependency graph
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
High-cardinality attribute exploration
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Sampling
Tail-based / dynamic sampling
Honeycomb✗
Uptrace-
Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Honeycomb-
UptraceNone
Correlation
Correlate traces with metrics/logs
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Deployment
Hosting
HoneycombCloud + self-hosted
UptraceCloud + self-hosted
Architecture
Storage backend
Honeycombcolumnar data store
UptraceClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata

What each one is

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

Honeycomb

Centralized platform for storing and querying observability data from production systems and AI applications, designed to help teams rapidly troubleshoot issues through integrated logs, metrics, and traces.

Independently observed

Uptrace

An observability solution that brings together application traces, metrics, and log records into one place. Powered by OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse, it's offered both as a cloud service and for self-hosting, designed to process and analyze large volumes of telemetry at substantially lower cost than competing platforms.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Honeycomb

from $0.10/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $150/month (Pro). Unlimited seats and queries. Free tier available.

  • FreeFree
    • Distributed Tracing
    • 2 Triggers
    • BubbleUp
    • OpenTelemetry Support
    • Team Query History
    • +5 more
  • ProStarting at $150/month, flexible event volume
    • All Free features
    • 100 Triggers
    • 2 Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
    • Single-Sign On (SSO)
    • Honeycomb Support
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Pro features
    • 300+ Triggers
    • 100+ Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
    • Service Map
    • Enterprise Support for Refinery
    • +5 more
as of verify ↗

Uptrace

from $0.03/datapointsUsage-basedFree tier

From $0.075/GB spans/logs, $0.025 per 1M datapoints metrics. 50 GB free/month, automatic discounts at scale.

  • Usage-based$0.075/GB spans/logs (from $0.10/GB, down to $0.016/GB at scale), $0.025 per 1M datapoints for metrics. 50 GB free/month.
    • Unlimited users, services, and hosts
    • OpenTelemetry native
    • Trace, metrics, and log ingestion
    • High-cardinality attributes
    • Automatic volume discounts (down to $0.016/GB)
    • +2 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Honeycomb✓
Uptrace✓
Self-hosted
Honeycomb✗
Uptrace✓
On-premise
Honeycomb✗
Uptrace✓

Integrations

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

In common (4)
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Slack
  • Prometheus
  • Terraform

Honeycomb

26 total - 22 not shared
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Google Analytics
  • Microsoft Teams
  • AWS PrivateLink
  • Jaeger
  • Zipkin
  • OTLP
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  • MySQL
  • ServiceNow
  • GitHub Actions Honeymarker
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • AWS CloudFront
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Amazon Timestream
  • Tracetest
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • AWS CloudHSM
  • Fluentd
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Independently observed

Uptrace

17 total - 13 not shared
  • Vector
  • FluentBit
  • CloudWatch
  • Grafana
  • GitHub Actions
  • PagerDuty
  • AlertManager
  • WebHook
  • Google Cloud Auth
  • Okta
  • Keycloak
  • Google Cloud
  • Tempo
Independently observed
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Honeycomb or Uptrace: which one depends on you

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