name: Honeycomb API Plans
specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Honeycomb
providerId: honeycomb
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-04'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Observability
  - Tracing
  - OpenTelemetry
description: Honeycomb event-based pricing across Free / Pro / Enterprise.
sources:
  - https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing
plans:
  - id: honeycomb-free
    name: Free
    type: freemium
    description: $0/month; up to 20M events/month.
    entries:
      - label: Events/month
        name: events
        type: quota
        metric: event
        limit: 20000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Metrics data points
        name: metrics
        type: quota
        metric: datapoint
        limit: 100000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: 2 Triggers
      - name: Distributed Tracing
      - name: BubbleUp
      - name: OpenTelemetry support
      - name: Team query history
      - name: Query Result Permalinks
  - id: honeycomb-pro
    name: Pro
    type: paid
    description: Starting at $130/month; up to 1.5B events/month.
    entries:
      - label: Monthly base
        name: base
        type: subscription
        metric: month
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '130.00'
        userMultiplied: false
      - label: Events included
        name: events
        type: quota
        metric: event
        limit: 1500000000
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: 100 Triggers
      - name: 2 SLOs
      - name: SSO
      - name: Honeycomb Support
      - name: Monthly or annual subscription
  - id: honeycomb-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    type: enterprise
    description: Custom pricing; starts with 10B events/year.
    entries:
      - label: Annual (custom)
        name: annual
        type: subscription
        metric: year
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: custom
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: 300+ Triggers
      - name: 100+ SLOs
      - name: Service Map
      - name: Refinery Enterprise Support
      - name: Query Data API
      - name: AWS PrivateLink
      - name: Honeycomb Private Cloud
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - free
  - subscription
  units:
  - message
  - period
  plans:
  - name: Free
    access: freemium
    model: free
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - message
    - other
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Pro
    access: paid
    model: subscription
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - message
    - period
    periods:
    - month
  - name: Enterprise
    access: enterprise
    model: subscription
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - period
    periods:
    - year