---
tool: "Honeycomb"
slug: "honeycomb"
category: "Developer & Infrastructure"
pricing_model: "Per Usage"
pricing_transparency: "Partial"
entry_price_monthly: 150
entry_price_annual: 150
annual_discount_pct: 0
native_currency: "USD"
free_plan_available: true
free_trial_days: null
enterprise_pricing_available: true
number_of_plans: 3
key_limit_metric: "Events per month + metrics data points"
last_checked_date: "2026-08-18"
last_manually_verified: "2026-08-18"
verification_status: "Verified"
vendor_pricing_page: "https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing"
vendor_website: "https://www.honeycomb.io/"
source: https://saaspricehub.io/tools/honeycomb
---

# Honeycomb pricing

Honeycomb is developer-first observability built for high-cardinality queries and distributed tracing. Free forever (20M events/mo + 100M metrics data points, 2 triggers); Pro from $150/mo (up to 750M events + 3.75B metrics data points + SSO + 2 SLOs); Enterprise custom (10B+ events/year base). Includes BubbleUp, Canvas AI Copilot, Honeycomb MCP, agent timeline, and OpenTelemetry-native support.

## Current entry price

**$150/month** billed monthly. **$150/month** billed annually.

**Usage-based pricing:** $150/mo Pro base (50M events + 250M metrics data points, scales to 750M/3.75B)

## All tiers

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Key limit |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | $0 | 20M events + 100M metrics data points, 2 triggers, distributed tracing |
| Pro | $150 | $150 | up to 750M events + 3.75B metrics data points, 100 triggers, 2 SLOs, SSO |
| Enterprise | custom | custom | 10B+ events/year base, unlimited SLOs, Service Map, PrivateLink, Refinery |

## Pricing model

- **Model:** Per Usage
- **Key limit metric:** Events per month + metrics data points
- **Free plan:** Yes
- **Free trial:** No separate trial
- **Enterprise pricing:** Available (custom quote)
- **Native currency:** USD

## Verification

- **Last automated check:** 2026-08-18
- **Last manual verification:** 2026-08-18
- **Verification status:** Verified
- **Source:** https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing

## Recommendation

In other words, Honeycomb is ideal for engineering teams doing distributed-systems debugging at scale who value high-cardinality queries and event-first thinking. Best if predictable event-based pricing beats per-host or per-GB for your workload.

## Alternative to consider

Want the full stack under one predictable vendor? Datadog. Open-source flexibility? Grafana Cloud. Zero base fees? Dash0 or OpenObserve. Error-first? Sentry. Enterprise commit? Dynatrace or Splunk Observability Cloud.

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*Pricing data maintained by SaaS Price Hub. Human-readable page: [https://saaspricehub.io/tools/honeycomb](https://saaspricehub.io/tools/honeycomb). All prices in USD unless otherwise noted. This file is machine-readable and updated within 24 hours of any tracked price change.*