Comparison

Odigos vs Zipkin

No leader: the top candidate Odigos has only 0.23 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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Odigos46
Zipkin43
Score
Vioscale score
Odigos46 / 100low · 23%updating
Zipkin43 / 100low · 38%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Odigos
Zipkin
Model
Price level
Odigosfree
Zipkinfree
Integrations
Count
Odigos
Zipkin10
Reliability
Status page
Odigos
Zipkin
Adoption
Dependent repos
Odigos0
Zipkin1,426
Github stars
Odigos3,676
Zipkin17,453
Activity
Commits last 30d
Odigos100
Zipkin0
Release
Cadence days
Odigos
Zipkin15
History
Odigos20 items
Zipkin20 items
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
OdigosGo
ZipkinJava

Capabilities

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

Core
Trace role
OdigosSaaS platform
ZipkinTrace backend / store
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Odigos-
Zipkin-
Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP)
Odigos-
Zipkin
Query
Trace search / filter by attributes
Odigos
Zipkin
Service dependency graph
Odigos
Zipkin
High-cardinality attribute exploration
Odigos-
Zipkin-
Sampling
Tail-based / dynamic sampling
Odigos-
Zipkin-
Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
OdigosAgent-based
ZipkinAgent-based
Correlation
Correlate traces with metrics/logs
Odigos
Zipkin-
Deployment
Hosting
Odigos-
ZipkinSelf-hosted only
Architecture
Storage backend
Odigos-
ZipkinIn-memory, Apache Cassandra, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch

What each one is

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

Odigos

Observability platform providing automatic instrumentation for metrics, traces, and logs across services and infrastructure. Enables end-to-end tracing without code edits or redeploys.

Independently observed

Zipkin

Collects timing and dependency data from instrumented applications to troubleshoot latency issues. Provides a web interface for querying traces by service, operation, tags, or duration, and displays how requests flow through the service architecture.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Odigos

Open source
as of verify ↗

Zipkin

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
Odigos
Zipkin
macOS
Odigos
Zipkin
Linux
Odigos
Zipkin
Deployment
Self-hosted
Odigos
Zipkin
On-premise
Odigos
Zipkin

Integrations

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

Odigos

Not documented yet.

Zipkin

10 total
  • HTTP
  • Kafka
  • Apache ActiveMQ
  • gRPC
  • RabbitMQ
  • Apache Pulsar
  • Elasticsearch
  • Apache Cassandra
  • OpenSearch
  • Brave
Independently observed

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