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Comparison

Kamon vs Pinpoint APM

No leader: the top candidate Kamon has only 0.21 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. 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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Kamon54
Pinpoint APM52
Score
vioscaleAI score
Kamon54 / 100low · 21%
Pinpoint APM52 / 100medium · 53%
Pricing
Free tier
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM–
Model
Kamonfreemium
Pinpoint APMopen_source
Price level
Kamonhigh
Pinpoint APMfree
Transparent
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM–
Integrations
Count
Kamon10
Pinpoint APM10
Security
Gdpr
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM–
Scorecard
Kamon–
Pinpoint APM4.7
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Kamon–
Pinpoint APM✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Kamon–
Pinpoint APM56
Github stars
Kamon–
Pinpoint APM13,866
Activity
Commits last 30d
Kamon–
Pinpoint APM100
Release
Cadence days
Kamon–
Pinpoint APM88
History
Kamon–
Pinpoint APM20 items
License
Spdx
Kamon–
Pinpoint APMApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Kamon–
Pinpoint APMJava
Market
Availability
KamonAvailable worldwide · HQ HR
Pinpoint APM–
Content
Faq
Kamon7 items
Pinpoint APM6 items

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Distributed tracing
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Insight
Service map
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Code / continuous profiling
Kamon✗
Pinpoint APM✓
Database monitoring
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Error analytics
Kamon✗
Pinpoint APM✓
Real-user monitoring
Kamon✗
Pinpoint APM-
SLO / error-budget tracking
Kamon✗
Pinpoint APM-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Kamon✗
Pinpoint APM-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Kamon-
Pinpoint APM-
Core
Language agents
KamonScala, Akka, Play Framework, Cats Effect, Akka HTTP, Lagom
Pinpoint APMJava, PHP, Python
Deployment
Hosting
KamonCloud only
Pinpoint APMSelf-hosted only

What each one is

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

Kamon

Application performance monitoring platform providing metrics and distributed tracing for backend services. Supports open-source Kamon Telemetry instrumentation and integrates with Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

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.

Kamon

from $89/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $89/mo. Free tier includes 5K metrics and 10M spans/month. Fixed subscription with transparent add-ons, no surprise overage charges.

  • StarterFree
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +4 more
  • Teams$89/mo - 10K metrics, 100M spans/mo, 20 team members
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +7 more
  • Business$299/mo - 30K metrics, 500M spans/mo, 50 team members
    • High-fidelity metrics with up to 1% error margin
    • End-to-end distributed tracing
    • Service map with dependencies and realtime status
    • Built-in integrations for HTTP, Database, and Akka services
    • Track CPU, memory, and file system usage for unlimited hosts
    • +7 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom metrics capacity
    • Custom span limits
    • Custom data retention
    • Dedicated support
    • Volume discounts
    • +1 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
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Kamon✓
Pinpoint APM✓
Self-hosted
Kamon✗
Pinpoint APM✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Akka HTTP

Kamon

10 total - 9 not shared
  • Prometheus
  • Jaeger
  • Datadog
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • Akka
  • Play Framework
  • Cats Effect
  • Lagom Framework
Independently observed

Pinpoint APM

53 total - 52 not shared
  • Tomcat
  • Jetty
  • JBoss EAP
  • Websphere
  • Vertx
  • Weblogic
  • Undertow
  • Spring
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring WebFlux
  • Spring Cloud Sleuth
  • Ktor
  • Apache HttpClient
  • JDK HttpClient
  • GoogleHttpClient
  • OkHttpClient
  • NingAsyncHttpClient
  • Netty
  • Thrift
  • DUBBO
  • gRPC
  • Apache CXF
  • ActiveMQ
  • RabbitMQ
  • +28 more
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Kamon or Pinpoint APM: which one depends on you

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