Pyroscope vs Tideways
On the evidence we track, Pyroscope 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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for apm tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Pyroscope
LeaderA horizontally scalable, distributed continuous profiling database providing fast, efficient storage and querying with high availability. Enables developers to understand resource usage in applications down to the line number.
Tideways
PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Pyroscope
LeaderFree tier with $0 cost. Pro from $19/month + usage. Enterprise from $25,000/year.
- FreeFree
- All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage
- Community support
- 14 days retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
- ProFrom $19/month + usage with volume discounts
- Pay as you go above Free tier
- 8×5 email support
- 13 months retention for metrics; 30 days retention for logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Premium support
- Custom retention
- Deployment flexibility (Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud)
Tideways
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
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Pyroscope
Leader- Grafana
Tideways
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- PagerDuty
- OpsGenie
- Splunk On-Call
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.