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Comparison

Instana vs Pinpoint APM

No clear leader: Instana (58.9) and Pinpoint APM (56.8) 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.

Instana full profile →Pinpoint APM full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Instana59
Pinpoint APM57
Score
Vioscale score
Instana59 / 100low · 40%
Pinpoint APM57 / 100medium · 53%
Pricing
Free tier
Instana✓
Pinpoint APM–
Model
Instanaquote
Pinpoint APMopen_source
Price level
Instanalow
Pinpoint APMfree
Transparent
Instana✗
Pinpoint APM–
Integrations
Count
Instana300
Pinpoint APM64
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 APM13,861
Activity
Commits last 30d
Instana–
Pinpoint APM100
Release
Cadence days
Instana–
Pinpoint APM84
History
Instana–
Pinpoint APM20 items
License
Spdx
Instana–
Pinpoint APMApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Instana–
Pinpoint APMJava
Market
Availability
InstanaAvailable worldwide
Pinpoint APM–

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

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 monitoring tool that traces transaction flows across distributed system components to reveal application topology, performance bottlenecks, and transaction details. Provides code-level visibility with minimal performance overhead through agent-based 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

SubscriptionFree tier14-day trial
  • EssentialsContact sales
    • Infrastructure monitoring
    • Automatic infrastructure dynamic map
    • Cloud, hybrid and on-premise discovery
    • Kubernetes and orchestration monitoring
  • StandardContact sales
    • Distributed end-to-end tracing
    • Website and mobile observability
    • Code-level visibility
    • Synthetic monitoring
    • Business process monitoring
    • +3 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 (6)
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Cassandra
  • ClickHouse

Instana

32 total - 26 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
  • +2 more
Independently observed

Pinpoint APM

50 total - 44 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
  • +20 more
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.