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Comparison

Instana vs Pinpoint APM

On the evidence we track, Instana leads this comparison with a composite score of 60/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Instana full profile →Pinpoint APM full profile →
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★Instana60
Pinpoint APM52
Score
vioscaleAI score
Instana60 / 100low · 41%
Pinpoint APM52 / 100medium · 53%
Pricing
Free tier
Instana✗
Pinpoint APM–
Model
Instanacommercial
Pinpoint APMopen_source
Price level
Instanamid
Pinpoint APMfree
Starting price
Instana$21.20
Pinpoint APM–
Transparent
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM–
Integrations
Count
Instana300
Pinpoint APM10
Security
Disclosure policy
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM–
Gdpr
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM–
Scorecard
Instana–
Pinpoint APM4.7
Soc2
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Instana–
Pinpoint APM✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Instana–
Pinpoint APM56
Github stars
Instana–
Pinpoint APM13,866
Activity
Commits last 30d
Instana–
Pinpoint APM100
Release
Cadence days
Instana–
Pinpoint APM88
History
Instana–
Pinpoint APM20 items
License
Spdx
Instana–
Pinpoint APMApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Instana–
Pinpoint APMJava
Market
Availability
InstanaAvailable worldwide
Pinpoint APM–
Content
Faq
Instana6 items
Pinpoint APM6 items

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Distributed tracing
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Insight
Service map
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Code / continuous profiling
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Database monitoring
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Error analytics
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Real-user monitoring
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM-
SLO / error-budget tracking
Instana-
Pinpoint APM-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
InstanaOTLP ingest
Pinpoint APM-
Core
Language agents
Instana300+ technologies supported
Pinpoint APMJava, PHP, Python
Deployment
Hosting
InstanaCloud + self-hosted
Pinpoint APMSelf-hosted only

What each one is

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

Instana

Leader

A monitoring and observability platform that automatically discovers and monitors applications and infrastructure, providing real-time full-stack visibility with AI-powered incident investigation and performance optimization.

Independently observed

Pinpoint APM

A management system for monitoring applications across interconnected systems, tracking how requests flow through components to identify bottlenecks and performance issues without code instrumentation.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Instana

Leader
from $21.20/MVS/moHybrid14-day trial

From $0.03/MVS hour (pay-per-use) or $21.20/MVS/month (SaaS). 14-day free trial available.

  • Try Instana for FreeFree
    • Application monitoring
    • Infrastructure monitoring
    • Log monitoring
    • Digital experience monitoring
    • Microservice visibility
    • +2 more
  • PayPerUseFrom $0.03/MVS hour
    • Infrastructure monitoring (Essentials)
    • Full observability option
    • No commitment
    • Cancel anytime
  • SaaSFrom $21.20/MVS/month
    • Unlimited users
    • Unlimited hosts and scale
    • Service discovery and mapping
    • Distributed end-to-end tracing
    • Serverless monitoring
    • +7 more
  • Self-HostedFrom $385.20/MVS/year
    • Service discovery and mapping
    • Distributed end-to-end tracing
    • Serverless monitoring
    • Container and runtime monitoring
    • Kubernetes monitoring
    • +8 more
as of verify ↗

Pinpoint APM

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Self-hosted
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✓
On-premise
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✗
Hybrid
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM✗

Integrations

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

In common (8)
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Cassandra
  • ClickHouse
  • Memcached
  • RabbitMQ

Instana

Leader
52 total - 44 not shared
  • ServiceNow
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Oracle Cloud
  • IBM Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • VMware Tanzu
  • Cloud Foundry
  • VSphere
  • Oracle Database
  • IBM Db2
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • SAP HANA
  • Apache Spark
  • Hadoop YARN
  • Apache HBase
  • OpenSearch
  • GraphQL
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS RDS
  • AWS S3
  • Google Compute Engine
  • Redis Enterprise
  • +20 more
Independently observed

Pinpoint APM

53 total - 45 not shared
  • Tomcat
  • Jetty
  • JBoss EAP
  • Websphere
  • Vertx
  • Weblogic
  • Undertow
  • Akka HTTP
  • Spring
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring WebFlux
  • Spring Cloud Sleuth
  • Ktor
  • Apache HttpClient
  • JDK HttpClient
  • GoogleHttpClient
  • OkHttpClient
  • NingAsyncHttpClient
  • Netty
  • Thrift
  • DUBBO
  • gRPC
  • Apache CXF
  • ActiveMQ
  • +21 more
Independently observed
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