Pick Dash0 if
platform teams who will send a first OTel service map, then stay on the printed $0.060 / million ingest when they want traces + logs in one SignalStore.
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Our take
Pick Dash0 if platform teams who will send a first OTel service map, then stay on the printed $0.060 / million ingest when they want traces + logs in one SignalStore. 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 they need 50M events, 100 Triggers, and 2 SLOs.
Honeycomb
hosted observability-query desk
Best for
Dash0 OTel you pay per signal
Honeycomb Wide-event queries you start at $0
Free plan
Dash0 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
Dash0 Metric data points $0.020
Honeycomb Refinery as a Service $0.10
Next step up
Dash0 Spans $0.060
Honeycomb Pro $150/mo
Coding agent
Dash0 Services / service map
Honeycomb
Runs where
Dash0 Local or hosted
Honeycomb Hosted
Watch out
Dash0 No printed forever Free plan
Honeycomb Free is 20M events and 2 Triggers
Last checked
Dash0 2026-10-23 · dash0.com/pricing
Honeycomb 2026-10-23 · honeycomb.io/pricing
Which one, then?
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 they need 50M events, 100 Triggers, and 2 SLOs.
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