APM & Monitoring pricing across 6 tracked products: entry-tier median $0, top-tier median $74. Cheapest: Honeycomb. Most premium: Honeycomb. Updated April 2026.
APM & Monitoring pricing varies across per-seat, per-usage, and enterprise-quoted tiers. Published list prices on vendor pricing pages form the basis of this benchmark; negotiated deals typically land 15-40% below list for teams over 20 seats.
Entry-tier median is $0, top-tier median $74. Negotiated enterprise deals typically land 15-40% below list.
| Product | Entry | Median | Top | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AppDynamics | $6.00 | $42 | $95 | month |
| Dynatrace | $12 | $21 | $69 | month |
| Honeycomb | $0 | $130 | $130 | month |
| Instana | $0 | $50 | $80 | month |
| Lightstep | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
| Microsoft Application Insights | $0 | $0 | $0 | month |
Low is the entry-tier price (often a free or starter plan). Median is the middle price across published tiers. High is the top published tier — enterprise contracts with negotiated discounts usually land 15-40% below the published high.
Across 6 tracked products, the entry-tier median is $0 and the top-tier median is $74. Individual products vary significantly — see the per-product table above.
Honeycomb has the lowest entry-tier price in our tracked set.
Honeycomb has the highest top-tier list price among tracked products.
Prices are sourced from vendor pricing pages and automatically re-checked. Any tier marked 'custom' has no public list price; negotiated deals aren't shown here.