# Blackfire

> The fastest way to spot bottlenecks in your PHP & Python code

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/blackfire
- **Category:** APM Tools
- **Homepage:** https://www.blackfire.io
- **Also known as:** blackfire
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03T13:14:14.152Z

## Vioscale score

**62.7 / 100**, confidence 63% (medium).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 50 | 8 | 400 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 30 | 1500 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 81.2 | 12 | 973.8 | ✓ |
| integrations | 20.1 | 16 | 321.6 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 85 | 22 | 1870 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 12 | 1200 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-03, [verify at source](https://www.blackfire.io). Independently observed._

from €33.25/mo · Subscription · Free tier

> From €33.25/month (Development) to €158.25/month (Production, yearly) or €189.90/month (Production, monthly). Free tier for GitHub Education students via partnership. No free trial; demo at demo.blackfire.io.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Production | €158.25/month billed yearly (2 months free) or €189.90/month billed monthly. Includes 3 users, 2 environments, 1M traces/month, 5GB profiling/month, 1M front-end observability/month. | - | annual |
| Development | €33.25/month billed yearly only. Includes 1 user, 1 sandbox environment. Features available as add-ons: quality recommendations (€10.75/month), security recommendations (€10.75/month), debug extension | - | annual |

### Production

**Included limits:** 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
- Automatic profiling
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Performance tests
- Performance recommendations
- Quality recommendations
- Security recommendations
- Debug extension
- Browser extension
- CLI
- SDK

### Development

**Included limits:** environments: 1 (Sandbox only)

- Profiling
- Manual Assertions
- Browser extension
- CLI
- SDK

### Add-ons

- **Additional User (Production)** (€24.92/user/mo)
- **Additional Environment (Production)** (€58.25/mo)
- **Additional Monitoring Traces—1M (Production)** (€41.67/mo)
- **Additional Continuous Profiling—1GB (Production)** (€10/mo)
- **Additional Front-end Observability—1M (Production)** (€41.67/mo)
- **Magento Recommendations (Production)** (€49.92/mo)
- **Quality Recommendations (Development)** (€10.75/mo)
- **Security Recommendations (Development)** (€10.75/mo)
- **Debug Extension (Development)** (€10.75/mo)
- **Magento Recommendations (Development)** (€14.08/mo)
- **Additional User (Development)** (€33.25/user/mo)

## About

Blackfire is an application performance monitoring and profiling platform for PHP and Python that provides code-level observability through continuous profiling, monitoring, and testing to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS

## Integrations (4)

_Independently observed._

- Platform.sh
- Upsun
- CI/CD
- SDK

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for APM Tools. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Instrumentation** | |
| Auto-instrumentation | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | ✓ |
| **Insight** | |
| Service map | ✓ |
| Code / continuous profiling | ✓ |
| Database monitoring | ✓ |
| Error analytics | - |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ |
| **Intelligence** | |
| Anomaly / root-cause AI | - |
| **Standards** | |
| OpenTelemetry support | - |
| **Core** | |
| Language agents | PHP, Python, Golang, Node.js, Ruby, Rust, Java |
| **Deployment** | |
| Hosting | Cloud only |
| **Insight** | |
| SLO / error-budget tracking | ✗ |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 4 | [link](https://www.blackfire.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.blackfire.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://www.blackfire.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | mid | [link](https://www.blackfire.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 33.25 | [link](https://www.blackfire.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://www.blackfire.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.blackfire.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://www.blackfire.io/.well-known/security.txt) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| security.iso27001 | yes | [link](https://www.blackfire.io/security) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |
| security.pci | yes | [link](https://www.blackfire.io/security) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://www.blackfire.io/security) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |

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