# Parca vs Pinpoint APM

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Pinpoint APM

| Attribute | Parca | Pinpoint APM |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 40.4 (53% (medium)) | 52.1 (53% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 11 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 40 | 56 |
| adoption.github_stars | 4,994 | 13,866 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Open source continuous profiling platform for analyzing CPU, memory, and IO usage down to the line number across entire infrastructure using eBPF. It is indexed under APM Tools.","source":"https://www.parca.dev","question":"What is Parca?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Parca is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.parca.dev","question":"Is Parca free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Parca supports the web, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.parca.dev","question":"What platforms does Parca support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Parca can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.parca.dev","question":"Can Parca be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Parca is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/parca-dev/parca","question":"Is Parca open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under APM Tools.","source":"https://pinpoint-apm.github.io/pinpoint/","question":"What is Pinpoint APM?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pinpoint APM is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://pinpoint-apm.github.io/pinpoint/","question":"Is Pinpoint APM free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Pinpoint APM. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://pinpoint-apm.github.io/pinpoint/","question":"What platforms does Pinpoint APM support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Pinpoint APM can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://pinpoint-apm.github.io/pinpoint/","question":"Can Pinpoint APM be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 47 integrations for Pinpoint APM, including Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss EAP, Websphere, Vertx, Weblogic, Undertow and Akka HTTP, plus 39 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://pinpoint-apm.github.io/pinpoint/","question":"What does Pinpoint APM integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Pinpoint APM is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint","question":"Is Pinpoint APM open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Infrastructure-wide continuous profiling that analyzes CPU and memory consumption down to individual functions, requiring zero instrumentation and operating with minimal overhead. | A management system for monitoring applications across interconnected systems, tracking how requests flow through components to identify bottlenecks and performance issues without code instrumentation. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"self","languages":"C, C++, Rust, Go, and more","otel_support":"none","code_profiling":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` | `{"hosting":"self","languages":"Java, PHP, Python","service_map":true,"db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 10 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kubernetes"}]` | `[{"name":"Tomcat"},{"name":"Jetty"},{"name":"JBoss EAP"},{"name":"Websphere"},{"name":"Vertx"},{"name":"Weblogic"},{"name":"Undertow"},{"name":"Akka HTTP"},{"name":"Spring"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Spring WebFlux"},{"name":"Spring Cloud Sleuth"},{"name":"Ktor"},{"name":"Apache HttpClient"},{"name":"JDK HttpClient"},{"name":"GoogleHttpClient"},{"name":"OkHttpClient"},{"name":"NingAsyncHttpClient"},{"name":"Netty"},{"name":"Thrift"},{"name":"DUBBO"},{"name":"gRPC"},{"name":"Apache CXF"},{"name":"ActiveMQ"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"RocketMQ"},{"name":"Pulsar"},{"name":"Paho MQTT"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"MSSQL"},{"name":"CUBRID"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MariaDB"},{"name":"Informix"},{"name":"DB2"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Dameng"},{"name":"Arcus"},{"name":"Memcached"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Hbase"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"iBATIS"},{"name":"MyBatis"},{"name":"DBCP"},{"name":"HIKARICP"},{"name":"JDK HttpConnector"},{"name":"Redisson"},{"name":"AWS SDK S3"}]` |
| language.primary | TypeScript | Java |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://www.parca.dev","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T20:43:59.814Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://pinpoint-apm.github.io/pinpoint/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T22:23:31.607Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | 75 | 88 |
| release.history | 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| `[{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.1.1","date":"2026-10-02T06:04:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.1.0","date":"2026-05-20T23:14:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.5","date":"2026-04-01T23:30:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.4","date":"2025-11-10T08:25:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.3","date":"2025-06-12T06:19:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.2","date":"2025-03-19T09:50:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.1","date":"2024-10-23T03:51:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.0","date":"2024-05-30T07:48:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.4","date":"2024-04-18T10:24:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.3","date":"2023-10-11T01:44:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.2","date":"2023-06-14T01:57:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.1-p1","date":"2023-06-13T05:20:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.1-p1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.1","date":"2023-04-12T07:55:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.0","date":"2022-12-27T09:54:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.4.2","date":"2022-09-30T08:08:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.4.1","date":"2022-08-04T06:11:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.4.0","date":"2022-05-30T07:42:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.4.0-RC1","date":"2022-05-10T07:35:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.0-RC1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.3.3","date":"2021-12-22T04:36:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.3.2","date":"2021-12-13T05:47:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.2"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 5.5 | 4.7 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fparca-dev%2Fparca&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.navercorp.pinpoint%3Apinpoint-profiler&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

| Capability | Parca | Pinpoint APM |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | - | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Service map | - | ✓ |
| Code / continuous profiling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Database monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Error analytics | - | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | - | - |
| SLO / error-budget tracking | - | - |
| **Intelligence** |  |  |
| Anomaly / root-cause AI | - | - |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | None | - |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Language agents | C, C++, Rust, Go, and more | Java, PHP, Python |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Self-hosted only | Self-hosted only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:13:01.380Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*