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.
Read the Honeycomb pageHoneycomb vs Tinybird
Our take
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. Pick Tinybird if app teams who will buy Developer at the printed $49/month (0.5 vCPU, 25 GB) while they publish a first Pipe, then talk to sales for SaaS when they need up to 32 vCPUs and 500 GB.
Best for
Honeycomb Wide-event queries you start at $0
Tinybird SQL APIs you meter by vCPU
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
Tinybird No free plan
Lowest paid
Honeycomb Refinery as a Service $0.10
Tinybird Meters $0.0002
Next step up
Honeycomb Pro $150/mo
Tinybird Developer (table header) $25/mo
Runs where
Honeycomb Hosted
Tinybird Hosted
Watch out
Honeycomb Free is 20M events and 2 Triggers
Tinybird The page prints both $49 and “starting at $25” for Developer
Last checked
Honeycomb 2026-10-23 · honeycomb.io/pricing
Tinybird 2026-10-23 · tinybird.co/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Tinybird if
app teams who will buy Developer at the printed $49/month (0.5 vCPU, 25 GB) while they publish a first Pipe, then talk to sales for SaaS when they need up to 32 vCPUs and 500 GB.
Read the Tinybird page