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Comparison

Pinpoint APM vs Tideways

On the evidence we track, Pinpoint APM leads this comparison with a composite score of 57/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Pinpoint APM57
Tideways47
Score
Vioscale score
Pinpoint APM57 / 100medium · 53%
Tideways47 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Pinpoint APM–
Tideways✗
Model
Pinpoint APMopen_source
Tidewayscommercial
Price level
Pinpoint APMfree
Tidewaysmid
Transparent
Pinpoint APM–
Tideways✓
Integrations
Count
Pinpoint APM64
Tideways7
Security
Gdpr
Pinpoint APM–
Tideways✓
Pci
Pinpoint APM–
Tideways✓
Scorecard
Pinpoint APM4.7
Tideways–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Pinpoint APM56
Tideways–
Github stars
Pinpoint APM13,861
Tideways–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Pinpoint APM100
Tideways–
Release
Cadence days
Pinpoint APM84
Tideways–
History
Pinpoint APM20 items
Tideways–
License
Spdx
Pinpoint APMApache-2.0
Tideways–
Language
Primary
Pinpoint APMJava
Tideways–

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✓
Distributed tracing
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✓
Insight
Service map
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways-
Code / continuous profiling
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✓
Database monitoring
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✓
Error analytics
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✓
Real-user monitoring
Pinpoint APM-
Tideways✓
SLO / error-budget tracking
Pinpoint APM-
Tideways-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Pinpoint APM-
Tideways-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Pinpoint APM-
Tideways-
Core
Language agents
Pinpoint APMJava, PHP, Python
TidewaysPHP
Deployment
Hosting
Pinpoint APMSelf-hosted only
TidewaysCloud only

What each one is

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

Pinpoint APM

Leader

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.

Independently observed

Tideways

PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Pinpoint APM

Leader
Open source
as of verify ↗

Tideways

from €29/moSubscription14-day trial

From 29€/month. 14-day free trial.

  • Team29€/month billed annually
    • Profiler, Monitoring, Error Tracking
    • Unlimited projects, services, transactions, users
    • Basic Alerting
    • Integrations: E-Mail, Slack, Microsoft Teams
  • Business89€/month billed annually
    • All Team features
    • Distributed Profiling
    • Traces in History
    • Advanced Tracepoint Triggers
    • Advanced Alerting
    • +1 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Unlimited historical data
    • Technical Account Manager
    • Priority Support
    • SSO with Azure Active Directory
    • Wire Transfer, AWS Marketplace, custom payment terms
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✓
macOS
Pinpoint APM✗
Tideways✓
Linux
Pinpoint APM✗
Tideways✓
CLI
Pinpoint APM✗
Tideways✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Pinpoint APM✗
Tideways✓
Self-hosted
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✗

Integrations

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

Pinpoint APM

Leader
50 total
  • Tomcat
  • Jetty
  • JBoss EAP
  • Websphere
  • Vertx
  • Weblogic
  • Undertow
  • Akka HTTP
  • Spring
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring WebFlux
  • Spring Cloud Sleuth
  • Ktor
  • Apache HttpClient
  • JDK HttpClient
  • GoogleHttpClient
  • OkHttpClient
  • NingAsyncHttpClient
  • Netty
  • Thrift
  • DUBBO
  • gRPC
  • Apache CXF
  • ActiveMQ
  • +26 more
Independently observed

Tideways

5 total
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • OpsGenie
  • Splunk On-Call
Independently observed

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