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Comparison

Pinpoint APM vs Tideways

On the evidence we track, Pinpoint APM leads this comparison with a composite score of 52/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Pinpoint APM52
Tideways44
Score
vioscaleAI score
Pinpoint APM52 / 100medium · 53%
Tideways44 / 100medium · 65%
Pricing
Free tier
Pinpoint APM–
Tideways✗
Model
Pinpoint APMopen_source
Tidewayscommercial
Price level
Pinpoint APMfree
Tidewaysunknown
Transparent
Pinpoint APM–
Tideways✓
Integrations
Count
Pinpoint APM10
Tideways7
Security
Gdpr
Pinpoint APM–
Tideways✓
Pci
Pinpoint APM–
Tideways✓
Scorecard
Pinpoint APM4.7
Tideways–
Trust center
Pinpoint APM–
Tidewayshttps://tideways.com/security
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Pinpoint APM✓
Tideways✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Pinpoint APM56
Tideways–
Github stars
Pinpoint APM13,866
Tideways–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Pinpoint APM100
Tideways–
Release
Cadence days
Pinpoint APM88
Tideways–
History
Pinpoint APM20 items
Tideways–
License
Spdx
Pinpoint APMApache-2.0
Tideways–
Language
Primary
Pinpoint APMJava
Tideways–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Pinpoint APM6 items
Tideways6 items

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 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

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

Subscription

Subscription-based plans from Basic to Pro; free trial available. Pricing scales with project size and transaction throughput. Annual discounts available.

  • Basic-
    • Profiling
    • Monitoring
    • Error Tracking
    • Basic Integrations (Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams)
  • Standard-
    • Profiling
    • Monitoring
    • Error Tracking
    • Advanced Integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, Webhooks)
  • ProContact sales
    • Profiling
    • Monitoring
    • Error Tracking
    • Advanced Integrations
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✓
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
53 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
  • +29 more
Independently observed

Tideways

7 total
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • OpsGenie
  • Splunk On-Call
  • Email
  • Webhooks
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Pinpoint APM or Tideways: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

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