# Pinpoint APM vs Tideways

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Pinpoint APM

| Attribute | Pinpoint APM | Tideways |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 56.8 (53% (medium)) | 47 (72% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 56 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 13,861 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | PHP application performance monitoring, profiling, and error tracking. Tideways shows where performance breaks down in production in real time. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"self","languages":"Java, PHP, Python","service_map":true,"db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` | `{"rum":true,"hosting":"cloud","languages":"PHP","db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` |
| integrations.count | 64 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Tomcat"},{"name":"Jetty"},{"name":"JBoss EAP"},{"name":"Websphere"},{"name":"Vertx"},{"name":"Weblogic"},{"name":"Undertow"},{"name":"Akka HTTP"},{"name":"Spring"},{"name":"Spring Boot"},{"name":"Spring WebFlux"},{"name":"Spring Cloud Sleuth"},{"name":"Ktor"},{"name":"Apache HttpClient"},{"name":"JDK HttpClient"},{"name":"GoogleHttpClient"},{"name":"OkHttpClient"},{"name":"NingAsyncHttpClient"},{"name":"Netty"},{"name":"Thrift"},{"name":"DUBBO"},{"name":"gRPC"},{"name":"Apache CXF"},{"name":"ActiveMQ"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"RocketMQ"},{"name":"Pulsar"},{"name":"Paho MQTT"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"MSSQL"},{"name":"CUBRID"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MariaDB"},{"name":"Informix"},{"name":"DB2"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Dameng"},{"name":"Arcus"},{"name":"Memcached"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Hbase"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"iBATIS"},{"name":"MyBatis"},{"name":"DBCP"},{"name":"HIKARICP"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"Splunk On-Call"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://pinpoint-apm.github.io/pinpoint/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T22:23:31.607Z"}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"29€/month billed annually","features":["Profiler, Monitoring, Error Tracking","Unlimited projects, services, transactions, users","Basic Alerting","Integrations: E-Mail, Slack, Microsoft Teams"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Basic profiling and monitoring","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"lookback_days":"5","trace_triggers":"100","historical_data":"6 weeks","spans_per_trace":"500","traces_per_minute":"1","requests_per_month":"250K"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"89€/month billed annually","features":["All Team features","Distributed Profiling","Traces in History","Advanced Tracepoint Triggers","Advanced Alerting","Integrations: PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, Webhooks"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":89,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Advanced profiling, distributed tracing, and alerting","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"lookback_days":"30","trace_triggers":"5000","historical_data":"15 months","spans_per_trace":"1500","traces_per_minute":"5","requests_per_month":"250K"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact for pricing","features":["Unlimited historical data","Technical Account Manager","Priority Support","SSO with Azure Active Directory","Wire Transfer, AWS Marketplace, custom payment terms"],"description":"Custom deployment for high request volumes","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"historical_data":"Unlimited","requests_per_month":">1 billion"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Premium Onboarding Workshop","components":[{"kind":"one_time","amount":249,"currency":"EUR"}]}],"summary":"From 29€/month. 14-day free trial.","currency":"EUR","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://tideways.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:12:26.312Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | no |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | mid |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 84 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.1.0","date":"2026-05-20T23:14:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.5","date":"2026-04-01T23:30:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.4","date":"2025-11-10T08:25:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.3","date":"2025-06-12T06:19:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.2","date":"2025-03-19T09:50:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.1","date":"2024-10-23T03:51:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v3.0.0","date":"2024-05-30T07:48:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.4","date":"2024-04-18T10:24:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.3","date":"2023-10-11T01:44:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.2","date":"2023-06-14T01:57:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.1-p1","date":"2023-06-13T05:20:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.1-p1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.1","date":"2023-04-12T07:55:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.5.0","date":"2022-12-27T09:54:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.4.2","date":"2022-09-30T08:08:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.4.1","date":"2022-08-04T06:11:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.4.0","date":"2022-05-30T07:42:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.4.0-RC1","date":"2022-05-10T07:35:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.0-RC1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.3.3","date":"2021-12-22T04:36:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.3.2","date":"2021-12-13T05:47:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pinpoint-apm/pinpoint/releases/tag/v2.3.1","date":"2021-11-10T02:32:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.1"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 4.7 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.navercorp.pinpoint%3Apinpoint-profiler&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

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

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:13:36.743Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*