Choose Checkly if you need
- Web or CLI. We haven't found them on Honeycomb's website.
- Integration with Playwright, PagerDuty or Opsgenie. We haven't found them on Honeycomb's website.
- SOC 2 or GDPR. We haven't found them on Honeycomb's website.
At a glance
- Both have a free plan.
- Honeycomb offers a free trial (length not stated). We haven't confirmed one for Checkly.
- Checkly's lowest paid plan is Starter at $24 per month, billed annually, as of October 20, 2026.
- Honeycomb's lowest paid plan is Pro at $150 per month for 50M events, scaling to 750M, as of October 19, 2026.
- Both are available on API.
- Only Checkly lists Web and CLI.
- Both work with Slack, Terraform and Prometheus.
- Both list SSO.
- Only Checkly lists SOC 2 and GDPR.
- Both have a public API.
From each tool's own website, checked on the dates below, and from published reviews.
Which to choose
From the facts checked for both tools, not from opinion. A fact we haven't confirmed for one of them is never counted.
Choose Honeycomb if you need
- Integration with OpenTelemetry or Kubernetes. We haven't found them on Checkly's website.
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Review HoneycombThe facts
- What it does
- ChecklyThe active reliability layer for developers and agents
- HoneycombObservability platform for AI-era software with fast queries and unified telemetry
- Free plan
- ChecklyYes
- HoneycombYes
- Pricing
- ChecklyFlat monthly
- HoneycombEvent-based, monthly
- Paid plans from
- Checkly
What they share
From the platforms and integrations each website lists.
Platforms
Both
- API
Only Checkly
- Web
- CLI
Only HoneycombNothing else listed
Integrations
Both
- Slack
- Terraform
- Prometheus
Only Checkly
- Playwright
People who switched
Reviewers who say they used one of these before the other.
No reviewer has said they moved between Checkly and Honeycomb yet.
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