Honeycomb
Event-based observability for traces and structured logs with high-cardinality queries, billed by events per month.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- subscription
- Free tier
- Up to 20M events and 100M metric data points per month.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.honeycomb.io
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Modeled rates
Pricing
Published rates converted using workload assumptions. Read the notes. Converts events to GB assuming 1 KB per event. Event sizes and paid feature requirements change the bill. How to read these estimates.
| Plan | Base fee / month | Log ingestion + retention / GB |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 |
| Pro | $150 | $3 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
Free
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included logs / month (GB)
- 20
- Log ingestion + retention / GB
- $0
- Monitored host / month
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 20 log ingest / month (gb)
Pro
- Base fee / month
- $150
- Included logs / month (GB)
- 50
- Log ingestion + retention / GB
- $3
- Monitored host / month
- $0
- Modeled plan limits
- ≤ 750 log ingest / month (gb)
Billed per event, assuming 1 KB per event (1M events ≈ 1 GB). Pro starts at $150/month and scales in tiers up to 750M events/month at $3.00 per million events (2026 Pro pricing, effective July 2026; legacy Pro was $1.30/M), so ~$3/GB, modelled linearly as $150 for the first 50 GB. Above 750M events/month you need Enterprise (base allowance 10 billion events/year, custom price). Retention is 60 days. No per-host pricing: metrics are billed per data point (Free 100M, Pro up to 3.75B), so per_host_month is 0. EU instance (AWS eu-west-1) available on Free and Pro. DPA incorporated into the terms of service.
What companies report paying
What other customers have paid for Honeycomb, with sources. Their usage, features and discounts may differ from yours; these are not quotes.
- $110,993/yr · Vendr median annual contract value; range shown $33,850–$720,000; 76 purchases
“Median buyer pays $110,993 per year Based on data from 76 purchases.”
Vendr purchase data, Oct 2026
Managed alternatives
At 3,000 GB log ingest / month, 50 monitored hosts. Adjust usage and requirements.
No managed cost estimate is available for this option at the selected usage.
- ClickStack (ClickHouse Cloud): $1,080/yr estimatedEstimated ratesVendor ingest-cost claim, not a per-GB list price. Query compute is extra; the managed service is in beta.
- Axiom: $3,252/yr estimatedModeled ratesAssumes 10× log compression and 30 days of retention. Query compute overages are excluded.
- Elastic Observability: $3,924/yr estimatedPublished rates
- Better Stack: $8,280/yr estimatedPublished rates
- New Relic: $14,040/yr estimatedPublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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