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Comparison

Skylight vs Tideways

On the evidence we track, Skylight leads this comparison with a composite score of 59/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Skylight full profile →Tideways full profile →
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★Skylight59
Tideways47
Score
Vioscale score
Skylight59 / 100low · 49%
Tideways47 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Skylight✓
Tideways✗
Model
Skylightfreemium
Tidewayscommercial
Price level
Skylightmid
Tidewaysmid
Transparent
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Integrations
Count
Skylight7
Tideways7
Security
Gdpr
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Pci
Skylight–
Tideways✓
Reliability
Status page
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

Instrumentation
Auto-instrumentation
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Distributed tracing
Skylight-
Tideways✓
Insight
Service map
Skylight-
Tideways-
Code / continuous profiling
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Database monitoring
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Error analytics
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
Real-user monitoring
Skylight✗
Tideways✓
SLO / error-budget tracking
Skylight-
Tideways-
Intelligence
Anomaly / root-cause AI
Skylight✓
Tideways-
Standards
OpenTelemetry support
Skylight-
Tideways-
Core
Language agents
SkylightRuby, Rails, Sinatra, Grape
TidewaysPHP
Deployment
Hosting
SkylightCloud only
TidewaysCloud only

What each one is

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

Skylight

Leader

Skylight visualizes performance data to help identify and fix bottlenecks in Ruby and Rails apps. It includes endpoint analysis, SQL profiling, deploy tracking, and background job monitoring.

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.

Skylight

Leader
from $20/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 100,000 monthly traces; paid tiers starting at $20/month

  • FreeFree
  • Pay-as-you-goStarting at $20/month
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
Skylight✓
Tideways✓
macOS
Skylight✗
Tideways✓
Linux
Skylight✗
Tideways✓
CLI
Skylight✗
Tideways✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Skylight✓
Tideways✓

Integrations

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

Skylight

Leader
7 total
  • Sidekiq
  • DelayedJob
  • ActiveJob
  • Sinatra
  • Grape
  • GraphQL
  • MCP
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.