What is Blackfire?
A tool for testing and scraping web services, with a domain-specific language for crawling HTTP services, validating responses, and extracting data from HTML, XML, and JSON.
Blackfire pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From €33.25/month (Development, annual) to €158.25/month (Production, annual with 2 months free). Demo environment available; free plan for GitHub Student Developer Pack members.
Production
Full-featured plan for companies monitoring production data
- users
- 3
- environments
- 2
- monitoring_traces
- 1M/month
- continuous_profiling
- 5GB/month
- front_end_observability
- 1M/month
- Profiling
- Performance Monitoring
- Continuous Profiling
- Alerting
- Continuous Testing
- Integrations
- Manual Assertions
- Multi-dimensional profiling
- Distributed profiling / Subprofiles
- Automatic profiling
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Notifications
- Performance tests
- Performance recommendations
- Quality recommendations
- Security recommendations
- Debug extension
- Magento recommendation
- Browser extension
- CLI
- SDK
Development
Low-cost option for fine-tuning applications before production
- users
- 1
- environments
- 1
- Profiling
- Manual assertions
- Upsun integration
Add-ons
- Additional User€24.92/user/mo
- Additional Environment€58.25/mo
- Additional Monitoring Traces (1M)€41.67/mo
- Additional Continuous Profiling (1GB)€10/mo
- Additional Front-end Observability (1M)€41.67/mo
- Quality Recommendations€10.75/mo
- Security Recommendations€10.75/mo
- Debug Extension€10.75/mo
- Magento Recommendations (Dev)€14.08/mo
- Magento Recommendations (Prod)€49.92/mo
What Blackfire does
The capabilities that matter for apm tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Auto-instrumentation
- ✓
- Distributed tracing
- ✓
- Service map
- -
- Code / continuous profiling
- ✓
- Database monitoring
- ✓
- Error analytics
- -
- Real-user monitoring
- ✓
- SLO / error-budget tracking
- -
- Anomaly / root-cause AI
- -
- OpenTelemetry support
- -
- Language agents
- PHP, Python
- Hosting
- Cloud only
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (6)
Independently observed- PHPUnit
- Symfony Functional Tests
- Behat
- GitHub Education
- CI/CD pipelines
- Upsun
Blackfire FAQ
Common questions about Blackfire, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Blackfire?
A tool for testing and scraping web services, with a domain-specific language for crawling HTTP services, validating responses, and extracting data from HTML, XML, and JSON. It is indexed under APM Tools.
Source: https://www.blackfire.io
How much does Blackfire cost?
Blackfire is a paid product; published pricing starts at €33.25 per month. It is sold across 2 plans (Production and Development). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Blackfire support?
Blackfire supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Blackfire be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Blackfire, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What does Blackfire integrate with?
We have confirmed 6 integrations for Blackfire, including PHPUnit, Symfony Functional Tests, Behat, GitHub Education, CI/CD pipelines and Upsun. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Blackfire have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA for Blackfire. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Blackfire not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Blackfire alternatives
Other apm tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- PyroscopeCloud platform combining infrastructure monitoring with cost and AI usage analyticsmedium · 63%
- Datadog APMMonitor and troubleshoot cloud applications by unifying traces, logs, metrics, and user telemetry.low · 48%
- Azure Application InsightsEnd-to-end visibility into applications, infrastructure, and network systemslow · 41%
- DynatraceAI-powered platform for monitoring applications and infrastructure in real-timelow · 40%
- InstanaAutomatic observability with AI-powered root cause analysislow · 40%
- Lumigomedium · 73%
Compare Blackfire
Side by side against other apm tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Blackfire, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 95 | 0.12 | 10.9 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 75 | 0.06 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.04 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 24 | 0.05 | 1.2 | ✓ |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Rum: Yes · Hosting: cloud · Languages: PHP, Python · Db monitoring: Yes · Code profiling: Yes · Distributed tracing: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-08-13 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
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