# Honeycomb vs Uptrace

| Attribute | Honeycomb | Uptrace |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.4 (72% (medium)) | 57.4 (69% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 5 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 4,303 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 1,716 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A unified observability platform that combines traces, logs, and metrics in one view for rapid production debugging. Built with OpenTelemetry support and high-cardinality telemetry analysis, it helps teams investigate issues across distributed systems and AI agents without paying extra costs as data volume grows. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io","question":"What is Honeycomb?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Honeycomb offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.10. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing","question":"Is Honeycomb free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Honeycomb supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Honeycomb support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Honeycomb, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io","question":"Can Honeycomb be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 26 integrations for Honeycomb, including Anthropic Claude, OpenTelemetry, Google Analytics, Slack, Microsoft Teams, AWS PrivateLink, Jaeger and Zipkin, plus 18 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io","question":"What does Honeycomb integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Honeycomb. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Honeycomb not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io","question":"What security certifications does Honeycomb have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Honeycomb is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing","question":"Where is Honeycomb available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Full-featured observability backend built on OpenTelemetry standards and ClickHouse. Provides distributed tracing, metrics, and log management with dramatically lower costs than competing platforms through pay-per-gigabyte billing rather than enterprise licensing models. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What is Uptrace?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Uptrace is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.03. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Is Uptrace free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Uptrace. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What platforms does Uptrace support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Uptrace can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Can Uptrace be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 14 integrations for Uptrace, including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Vector, FluentBit, CloudWatch, Grafana, GitHub Actions and Slack, plus 6 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"What does Uptrace integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Uptrace. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Uptrace not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://uptrace.dev","question":"What security certifications does Uptrace have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Uptrace is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace","question":"Is Uptrace open source?","confidence":0.67},{"answer":"Uptrace is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","question":"Where is Uptrace available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"backend","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"tail_sampling":false,"multi_protocol":true,"storage_backend":"columnar data store","high_cardinality":true,"metrics_correlation":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"multi_protocol":true,"storage_backend":"ClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata","high_cardinality":true,"metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"none"}` |
| integrations.count | 19 | 10 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Anthropic Claude"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"AWS PrivateLink"},{"name":"Jaeger"},{"name":"Zipkin"},{"name":"OTLP"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock AgentCore"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"GitHub Actions Honeymarker"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"AWS CloudFront"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"Amazon Timestream"},{"name":"Tracetest"},{"name":"Amazon Kinesis"},{"name":"AWS CloudHSM"},{"name":"Fluentd"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Vector"},{"name":"FluentBit"},{"name":"CloudWatch"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"AlertManager"},{"name":"WebHook"},{"name":"Google Cloud Auth"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Keycloak"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true},{"name":"Terraform","native":true},{"name":"Tempo","native":true,"category":"tracing"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever, up to 20M events/month","features":["Distributed Tracing","2 Triggers","BubbleUp","OpenTelemetry Support","Team Query History","Query Result Permalinks","Honeycomb Metrics","Canvas AI Copilot","Honeycomb MCP","Agent Timeline"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Testing and individual projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"20M/month","metrics_data_points":"100M/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"Starting at $150/month, flexible event volume","features":["All Free features","100 Triggers","2 Service Level Objectives (SLOs)","Single-Sign On (SSO)","Honeycomb Support"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":150,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.1,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Teams with production applications","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"750M/month","metrics_data_points":"3.75B/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom volume discounts, enterprise support","features":["All Pro features","300+ Triggers","100+ Service Level Objectives (SLOs)","Service Map","Enterprise Support for Refinery","Enterprise-Grade Support + Onboarding","Query Data API","AWS PrivateLink","SLO Reporting API","Honeycomb Private Cloud support"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Multi-team and large-scale applications","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"events":"Variable","metrics_data_points":"Variable"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Frontend performance analysis"},{"name":"Enterprise-grade alerting"},{"name":"Installation and enablement services"}],"summary":"From $150/month (Pro). Unlimited seats and queries. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:29:52.948Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.1,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Usage-based","summary":"$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.","features":["Unlimited users, services, and hosts","OpenTelemetry native","Trace, metrics, and log ingestion","High-cardinality attributes","Automatic volume discounts (down to $0.016/GB)","Monthly billing cap","Sampling configuration"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.075,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"datapoints"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay for data ingested; rates decrease with volume","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"metrics_free":"5,000 timeseries/mo","spans_and_logs_free":"50 GB/mo"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Cold Storage retention (beyond 4 weeks, up to 100 weeks)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB-month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"timeseries-month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.075/GB spans/logs, $0.025 per 1M datapoints metrics. 50 GB free/month, automatic discounts at scale.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://uptrace.dev/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-14T15:37:57.437Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"datapoints","amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.025,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 11 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-rc.1","date":"2026-10-07T15:04:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta.8","date":"2026-08-13T14:47:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-beta.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta.7","date":"2026-06-05T11:50:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-beta.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta.6","date":"2026-05-25T10:11:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-beta.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.3","date":"2026-05-13T13:04:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta.5","date":"2026-04-14T10:29:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-beta.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta.4","date":"2026-03-13T12:37:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-beta.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta.3","date":"2026-03-11T11:02:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta.2","date":"2026-03-09T09:58:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.1.0-beta","date":"2026-01-21T13:29:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.1.0-beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.2","date":"2025-12-02T14:08:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.1","date":"2025-08-11T11:16:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.1-rc.1","date":"2025-08-11T09:28:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.1-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.0","date":"2025-07-24T07:09:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.4","date":"2025-07-24T06:29:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.0-rc.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.3","date":"2025-07-16T14:47:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.0-rc.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.2","date":"2025-07-16T13:45:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.0-rc.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v1.7.7","date":"2025-07-02T09:04:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.1","date":"2025-07-07T13:39:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.5","date":"2025-06-13T07:48:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.0-beta.5"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fuptrace%2Fuptrace&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Distributed Tracing Tools)

| Capability | Honeycomb | Uptrace |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Trace role | Trace backend / store | SaaS platform |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTel-native | OTel-native |
| Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP) | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Trace search / filter by attributes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service dependency graph | ✓ | ✓ |
| High-cardinality attribute exploration | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Sampling** |  |  |
| Tail-based / dynamic sampling | ✗ | - |
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | - | None |
| **Correlation** |  |  |
| Correlate traces with metrics/logs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage backend | columnar data store | ClickHouse with PostgreSQL for metadata |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:15:15.440Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*