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Comparison

Lumigo vs Parca

On the evidence we track, Lumigo leads this comparison with a composite score of 55/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Lumigo55
Parca40
Score
vioscaleAI score
Lumigo55 / 100medium · 73%
Parca40 / 100medium · 53%
Pricing
Free tier
Lumigo✓
Parca✓
Model
Lumigofree
Parcaopen_source
Price level
Lumigofree
Parcafree
Transparent
Lumigo✗
Parca✓
Integrations
Count
Lumigo8
Parca1
Security
Gdpr
Lumigo✓
Parca–
Hipaa
Lumigo✓
Parca–
Scorecard
Lumigo–
Parca5.5
Soc2
Lumigo✓
Parca–
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Lumigo✓
Parca–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Lumigo–
Parca40
Github stars
Lumigo–
Parca4,994
Activity
Commits last 30d
Lumigo–
Parca11
Release
Cadence days
Lumigo–
Parca75
History
Lumigo–
Parca20 items
License
Spdx
Lumigo–
ParcaApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Lumigo–
ParcaTypeScript
Content
Faq
Lumigo6 items
Parca5 items

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Lumigo✓
Parca✓
Distributed tracing
Lumigo✓
Parca-
Insight
Service map
Lumigo✓
Parca-
Code / continuous profiling
Lumigo-
Parca✓
Database monitoring
Lumigo-
Parca-
Error analytics
Lumigo✓
Parca-
Real-user monitoring
Lumigo-
Parca-
SLO / error-budget tracking
Lumigo-
Parca-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Lumigo✓
Parca-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
LumigoOTel-native
ParcaNone
Core
Language agents
LumigoPython, Node.js, Java, Go
ParcaC, C++, Rust, Go, and more
Deployment
Hosting
LumigoCloud + self-hosted
ParcaSelf-hosted only

What each one is

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

Lumigo

Leader

Lumigo provides observability for cloud-native and serverless applications. It offers distributed tracing, automated error detection, real-time monitoring, and microservices insights to help developers quickly identify and resolve performance and reliability issues.

Independently observed

Parca

Infrastructure-wide continuous profiling that analyzes CPU and memory consumption down to individual functions, requiring zero instrumentation and operating with minimal overhead.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Lumigo

Leader
from $119/moSubscriptionFree tier14-day trial

From $99/mo (annual). Free tier with 150k traces/mo. 14-day free trial.

  • BasicFree
    • 150k Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 5GB/mo Logs
    • 3 Days Log Retention
    • 5GB/mo Metrics
    • +3 more
  • Standard$99/mo annual, $119/mo monthly
    • 1M Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 40GB/mo Logs
    • 7 Days Log Retention
    • 40GB/mo Metrics
    • +4 more
  • Plus$299/mo annual, $359/mo monthly
    • 5M Traces/mo
    • 14 Day Trace Retention
    • 100GB/mo Logs
    • 30 Days Log Retention
    • 100GB/mo Metrics
    • +4 more
  • CustomContact sales
    • Custom Traces
    • Custom Trace Retention
    • Custom Log Volume
    • Custom Log Retention
    • Custom Metrics
    • +9 more
as of verify ↗

Parca

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
Lumigo✓
Parca✓
Linux
Lumigo✗
Parca✓
CLI
Lumigo✗
Parca✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Lumigo✓
Parca✗
Self-hosted
Lumigo✗
Parca✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • Kubernetes

Lumigo

Leader
11 total - 10 not shared
  • AWS
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Serverless Framework
  • CircleCI
  • Slack
  • PagerDuty
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon ECS
  • AWS CDK
  • AWS CloudWatch
Independently observed

Parca

1 total - 0 not shared
  • Kubernetes
Independently observed
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Lumigo or Parca: which one depends on you

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