Instana vs Pinpoint APM
InstanaNetwork Performance Monitoring
Pinpoint APMApplication Performance Monitoring
FreePublished price
Instana Network Performance Monitoring Full-stack observability powered by agentic AI | Pinpoint APM Application Performance Monitoring Leading Open-Source APM | |
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| Overview | ||
| Category | Network Performance Monitoring | Application Performance Monitoring |
| What it is | IBM enterprise observability platform with automatic application discovery, tracing, and root cause analysis for complex systems. | Open-source APM tool for large-scale distributed systems written in Java and PHP. |
| Pricing | ||
| Published price | Instana's current public materials do not provide a citable numeric starting price for the commercial offering. Pricing is therefore treated as sales-led or quote-based. | Free Pinpoint is an open-source (Apache 2.0) application performance management platform on GitHub. There is no paid edition or hosted commercial tier from the project; users self-host… |
| Pricing model | Not available | Free |
| Free options | No free plan · Free trial | Free plan · Free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
| Team size | 201-500 employees | Open source employees |
| Headquarters | Chicago, IL | Seoul, South Korea |