Elastic Agent
6.7#7 in telemetry pipeline softwareFrom $99 a monthWebAPILinuxmacOS
VisitElastic Agent vs Honeycomb
What both publish
| Fact | Elastic Agent | Honeycomb |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | Elastic Agent and Fleet include out-of-the-box dashboards, visualizations, and ingest pipelines for popular services and platforms. | The integration directory lists technologies including AWS, OpenTelemetry, Slack, MySQL, Prometheus, ServiceNow, and GitHub Actions. |
| Pricing model | Elastic Agent's product page states that customers pay for the resources they need and are not charged by ingest. | The pricing page lists unlimited seats and unlimited querying. |
Elastic Agent plans
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- Platinum$131 a month
- Enterprise$184 a month
Honeycomb plans
- FreeFree
- Pro$150 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
Pick Elastic Agent if…
Elastic Agent suits teams collecting telemetry for search, observability, or security across infrastructure, applications, and mobile devices. Fleet is relevant to teams that need centralized agent management and runtime policy or upgrade distribution.
Pick Honeycomb if…
Honeycomb describes its Free plan for testing and individual projects, Pro for teams with a production application, and Enterprise for multi-team and large-scale applications. It supports teams working with traces, logs, metrics and OpenTelemetry data.