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Comparison

Instana vs Pyroscope

No clear leader: Pyroscope (61.6) and Instana (60.0) 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 →Pyroscope full profile →
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Instana60
Pyroscope62
Score
vioscaleAI score
Instana60 / 100low · 41%
Pyroscope62 / 100medium · 59%
Pricing
Free tier
Instana✗
Pyroscope✓
Model
Instanacommercial
Pyroscopecommercial
Price level
Instanamid
Pyroscopeunknown
Starting price
Instana$21.20
Pyroscope–
Transparent
Instana✓
Pyroscope✓
Integrations
Count
Instana300
Pyroscope1
Security
Disclosure policy
Instana✓
Pyroscope✓
Fedramp
Instana–
Pyroscope✓
Gdpr
Instana✓
Pyroscope✓
Iso27001
Instana–
Pyroscope✓
Pci
Instana–
Pyroscope✓
Soc2
Instana✓
Pyroscope✓
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Instana–
Pyroscope✓
Market
Availability
InstanaAvailable worldwide
Pyroscope–
Content
Faq
Instana6 items
Pyroscope5 items

Capabilities

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

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

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

Pyroscope

Observability service providing visibility into infrastructure usage and costs, including tracking of artificial intelligence tool consumption for billing purposes.

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

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 ↗

Pyroscope

from $0.05/moHybridFree tier

Free tier with $0 cost. Pro from $19/month + usage. Enterprise from $25,000/year.

  • FreeFree
    • All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
    • Community support
    • 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
  • ProFrom $19/month + usage with volume discounts
    • Pay as you go above Free tier
    • 8×5 email support
    • 13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Premium support
    • Custom retention
    • Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud)
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Instana✓
Pyroscope✓
CLI
Instana✗
Pyroscope✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Instana✓
Pyroscope✓
Self-hosted
Instana✓
Pyroscope✗
On-premise
Instana✓
Pyroscope✗
Hybrid
Instana✓
Pyroscope✗

Integrations

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

Instana

52 total
  • ServiceNow
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Oracle Cloud
  • IBM Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • VMware Tanzu
  • Cloud Foundry
  • VSphere
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Cassandra
  • Oracle Database
  • IBM Db2
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • SAP HANA
  • Apache Spark
  • Hadoop YARN
  • Apache HBase
  • ClickHouse
  • OpenSearch
  • +28 more
Independently observed

Pyroscope

1 total
  • Grafana
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Instana or Pyroscope: 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.

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