# Embrace vs Honeybadger

| Attribute | Embrace | Honeybadger |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 57.3 (72% (medium)) | 59.5 (74% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides real user monitoring across mobile and web to tie technical performance to end-user impact. | Combines error tracking, structured logging, and performance monitoring in a single interface to help developers identify and resolve application issues quickly before users notice |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","alerting":true,"languages":"JavaScript, React, React Native, OpenTelemetry SDKs","platforms":"full_stack","error_grouping":true,"session_replay":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` | `{"hosting":"cloud","alerting":true,"languages":"Ruby, Python, Go, Node.js, Java, .NET, PHP, Elixir, Django, Laravel, Phoenix, Cr","platforms":"backend","data_scrubbing":true,"error_grouping":true,"release_health":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 3 | 14 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"SMS"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"Twitter/X"},{"name":"AWS Marketplace"},{"name":"Oban"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"OneLogin"},{"name":"Google Apps for Work"}]` |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"FREE","summary":"Free up to 1M sessions/year, 5 users, 3 days retention","features":["User session play-by-play","Errors, exceptions, and crashes","Basic performance monitoring","Basic dashboards and alerting","Mobile: Crash reporting, ANR monitoring, Out of memory monitoring, Webview performance","Web: Core Web Vitals","Performance tracing with OpenTelemetry","Network performance","Error tracking & logging","Exception reporting","Up to 10 alert policies"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Made for small apps, development or staging environments","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"5","sessions":"1M/year","data_retention":"3 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"PRO","summary":"$0.80 per 1,000 sessions (min $80/month), 14 days retention","features":["All FREE features","Custom dashboards","API access & metrics data forwarding","Role-based access controls","Jira integration","Slack integration","PagerDuty integration","Standard customer support","Metrics forwarding via PromQL API","Spans forwarding via TraceQL API","Custom metrics","Logs: Error logs free, info/warning/system logs $0.50/GB"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"session","amount":0.8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Made to give best-in-class performance insights for production apps","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"10","data_retention":"14 days","min_spend_month":"$80"}},{"free":false,"name":"ENTERPRISE","summary":"Custom pricing, unlimited users, 30 days retention, annual contract","features":["All PRO features","Unlimited users","Custom metrics included based on session volume","Events and spans forwarding","Network span forwarding","Event data forwarding","Code owners and telemetry tagging","Workflow automation","Gold-tier customer support","Dedicated CSM with annual contracts","Logs: Error logs free, info/warning/system logs $1.00/GB"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Made to automate workflow across multi-team development projects at scale","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"users":"Unlimited","min_spend":"$80","data_retention":"30 days"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring (Web only)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"checks"},"kind":"metered","amount":15,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.80 per 1,000 sessions. Free tier for 1M sessions/year.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://embrace.io/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:12:26.878Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Developer","summary":"Free","features":["Error tracking","Logging and observability","Uptime monitoring","Status pages","Basic integrations","Unlimited projects"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For individual developers with core error tracking, logging, and monitoring","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logs":"50 MB/day","errors":"5k/mo","monitors":"1","status_pages":"1","data_retention_logs":"7 days","data_retention_errors":"15 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$26/mo or $286/year","features":["Advanced error tracking with anomaly detection","Deployment tracking and GitHub integration","Custom metadata and user feedback","Advanced alert routing with rate-based escalation","Premium integrations (Jira, PagerDuty, SMS, webhooks)","Unlimited users and projects","Custom data retention per project","S3 archiving for data","Unlimited email support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":26,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":286,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For small businesses and development teams with unlimited users and advanced features","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logs":"100 MB/day","teams":"1","users":"unlimited","alarms":"up to 50","errors":"50k/mo","monitors":"5","dashboards":"up to 30","data_retention_logs":"up to 30 days","data_retention_errors":"90 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"$80/mo or $880/year","features":["All Team features","SAML/SSO authentication","Advanced workflows","Unlimited teams","1-minute uptime check frequency","Priority support via phone and email"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":80,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":880,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For enterprise organizations with SAML/SSO, team management, and priority support","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"teams":"unlimited","users":"unlimited","alarms":"up to 100","dashboards":"up to 30","data_retention_logs":"up to 60 days","data_retention_errors":"180 days"}}],"summary":"From free to $80/mo. Free tier available with 30-day trial","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.honeybadger.io/plans/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T12:17:49.493Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":26,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | Embrace | Honeybadger |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Full-stack | Backend |
| Language / SDK coverage | JavaScript, React, React Native, OpenTelemetry SDKs | Ruby, Python, Go, Node.js, Java, .NET, PHP, Elixir, Django, Laravel, Phoenix, Cr |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Automatic error grouping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Release health / regression tracking | - | ✓ |
| **Enrichment** |  |  |
| Source-map de-minification | - | - |
| Native crash symbolication | - | - |
| PII data scrubbing | - | ✓ |
| **Bundled signals** |  |  |
| Bundled session replay | ✓ | - |
| Bundled performance / APM | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Workflow** |  |  |
| Issue-tracker integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alert rules / on-call routing | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud only |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:33:27.211Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*