Choose Honeycomb if you need
No checked fact sets Honeycomb apart from New Relic yet.
At a glance
- Both have a free plan.
- Honeycomb offers a free trial (length not stated). We haven't confirmed one for New Relic.
- Honeycomb's lowest paid plan is Pro at $150 per month for 50M events, scaling to 750M, as of October 19, 2026.
- New Relic's lowest paid plan is Standard at $10 per month for the first full platform user, then $99 per additional user, up to 5, as of October 20, 2026.
- Both are available on API.
- Both work with Kubernetes and Prometheus.
- Both list SSO.
- Only New Relic lists HIPAA.
- 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 New Relic if you need
- Integration with Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud Platform. We haven't found them on Honeycomb's website.
- HIPAA. We haven't found it on Honeycomb's website.
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Review New RelicThe facts
- What it does
- HoneycombObservability platform for AI-era software with fast queries and unified telemetry
- New RelicIntelligent Observability resolves issues at scale, before they impact your bottom line
- Free plan
- HoneycombYes
- New RelicYes
- Pricing
- HoneycombEvent-based, monthly
- New RelicUsage-based, plus per user
- Paid plans from
What they share
From the platforms and integrations each website lists.
Platforms
Both
- API
Only HoneycombNothing else listed
Only New RelicNothing else listed
Integrations
Both
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
Only Honeycomb
- OpenTelemetry
- Slack
- Terraform
People who switched
Reviewers who say they used one of these before the other.
No reviewer has said they moved between Honeycomb and New Relic yet.
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