HoneyHive
HoneyHive is a proprietary OpenTelemetry-based hosted platform with a free Developer tier of 10,000 events a month, no published paid unit price, and self-hosting on its Enterprise tier only.
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| Licence | proprietary (SaaS only) — the Platform is licensed, not open-source; client-side tooling is MIT: honeyhive-cli, typescript-api-client, typescript-control-plane-sdk, honeyhive-openapi and skills each carry an MIT LICENSE file [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/honeyhiveai/honeyhive-cli/main/LICENSE, .../typescript-api-client/main/LICENSE, .../typescript-control-plane-sdk/main/LICENSE, .../honeyhive-openapi/main/LICENSE, .../skills/main/LICENSE], and python-sdk declares MIT in package metadata (license = {text = "MIT"} plus the OSI MIT classifier) with no root LICENSE file [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/honeyhiveai/python-sdk/main/pyproject.toml]; the cookbook repo declares no licence (no LICENSE file, HTTP 404) Source, checked www.honeyhive.aihttps://www.honeyhive.ai/legal/terms-of-serviceChecked |
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| Self-host | partial: self-hosting is offered on the Enterprise tier only (BYOC or BYOVPC on AWS EKS, deployed and managed by HoneyHive); the Developer tier is multi-tenant SaaS only Source, checked docs.honeyhive.aihttps://docs.honeyhive.ai/v2/setup/self-hostedChecked |
| OpenTelemetry | yes — the product is built on OpenTelemetry: the SDK wraps an OTel TracerProvider and exports spans over OTLP, using OTel GenAI semantic conventions, and any OTel-instrumented library can send data Source, checked docs.honeyhive.aihttps://docs.honeyhive.ai/v2/tracing/conceptsChecked |
| Free tier limits | Developer (free): 10,000 events per month, up to 5 users, 1 workspace, unlimited projects per workspace, 30-day data retention, max 1,000 requests per minute; an event is defined as a single trace span or metric-label combination Source, checked www.honeyhive.aihttps://www.honeyhive.ai/pricingChecked |
| Price per 100k traces | unstated — the vendor publishes no paid per-unit price: the only tiers shown are a free Developer tier (10,000 events/month) and an Enterprise tier at "Custom Pricing" with "Custom usage limits", so no trace-denominated rate can be derived Source, checked www.honeyhive.aihttps://www.honeyhive.ai/pricingChecked |
| Data residency | Developer tier: AWS US-West-2 only. Enterprise: custom — Dedicated Cloud is a single-tenant deployment in the AWS region of the customer's choice (including EU hosting), plus self-hosted BYOC/BYOVPC on AWS Source, checked docs.honeyhive.aihttps://docs.honeyhive.ai/v2/setup/dedicatedChecked |
| Retention | Developer (free): 30 days. Enterprise: custom ("Custom data retention controls"; retention row reads "Custom") Source, checked www.honeyhive.aihttps://www.honeyhive.ai/pricingChecked |
| SDK languages | Python (OTEL SDK, recommended), TypeScript (API SDK @honeyhive/api-client and Control Plane SDK), a HoneyHive CLI, and generated OpenAPI clients for any language (Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, C#, PHP named) Source, checked docs.honeyhive.aihttps://docs.honeyhive.ai/v2/sdk-reference/overviewChecked |
| Last release | Platform is versionless continuously-released SaaS: newest product changelog entry is dated August 14th, 2026 ("Create and Update Workspaces Through the API"); newest client release the same day is HoneyHive CLI v1.6.0 (2026-08-14) [release tag: https://github.com/honeyhiveai/honeyhive-cli/releases/tag/v1.6.0] Source, checked docs.honeyhive.aihttps://docs.honeyhive.ai/v2/changelog/productChecked |
Assessment
The platform is proprietary SaaS with no open-source server; only client tooling is public, and it is MIT: the CLI, TypeScript API client, control-plane SDK, OpenAPI spec and skills repositories each carry an MIT licence file, and the Python SDK declares MIT in package metadata with no root licence file; the cookbook repository declares no licence at all.
OpenTelemetry is the foundation, not an add-on: the vendor states HoneyHive is built on OTel, the SDK wraps an OTel TracerProvider and exports spans over OTLP using GenAI semantic conventions. Python is the recommended SDK, TypeScript ships as API and control-plane SDKs, and generated OpenAPI clients cover Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, C# and PHP.
Self-hosting is Enterprise-only and vendor-managed: BYOC or BYOVPC on AWS EKS, with both control and data plane deployed in the customer's environment. Azure, GCP and on-premises are listed as planned, not available.
The usage unit is events (a single trace span or metric-label combination), not traces. The free Developer tier is 10,000 events a month, up to 5 users, one workspace, unlimited projects, 30-day retention and 1,000 requests a minute, in AWS US-West-2. Enterprise is "Custom Pricing" with custom usage limits and retention, and single-tenant deployment in the customer's chosen AWS region, so no per-unit rate is published. The newest product changelog entry is dated 14 August 2026.
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