Our take
Pick AppSignal if app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (30K requests, 1 GB logs, 5-day retention) while they open a first disk graph, then buy the paid APM tile at $23.25 / month billed yearly ($279 / year, 250K requests) when they outgrow the free bucket. Pick Honeycomb if platform teams who will stay on Free forever at 20M events and 2 Triggers while they run a first Query Builder, then buy Pro at $150/month when
hosted observability-query desk
Best for
AppSignal Errors, traces, and host gauges you start at $0
Honeycomb Wide-event queries you start at $0
Free plan
AppSignal No free plan
Honeycomb $0 · free forever. Up to 20M events/month and 100M time-series data points. 2 Triggers. Distributed tracing, BubbleUp, OpenTelemetry, team query history, permalinks
Lowest paid
AppSignal Long-term log storage $89
Honeycomb Refinery as a Service $0.10
Next step up
AppSignal Application monitoring (yearly tile) $279
Honeycomb Pro $150/mo
Runs where
AppSignal Hosted
Honeycomb Hosted
Watch out
AppSignal Free is 30K requests / month and 5-day retention
Honeycomb Free is 20M events and 2 Triggers
Last checked
AppSignal 2026-10-23 · appsignal.com
Honeycomb 2026-10-23 · honeycomb.io/pricing
app teams who will stay on Free at $0 (30K requests, 1 GB logs, 5-day retention) while they open a first disk graph, then buy the paid APM tile at $23.25 / month billed yearly ($279 / year, 250K requests) when they outgrow the free bucket.
Read the AppSignal pageplatform teams who will stay on Free forever at 20M events and 2 Triggers while they run a first Query Builder, then buy Pro at $150/month when they need 50M events, 100 Triggers, and 2 SLOs.
Read the Honeycomb page