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HoneyHive

Also known as: HoneyHive AI

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Entry priceFree Developer tier (10K events/mo, 5 users) · Enterprise contact salesFull pricing detail

OpenTelemetry native platform to trace, evaluate, and monitor AI agents across development and production, combining automated and human evaluation with a versioned system of record.

HoneyHive is an observability and evaluation platform for AI agents and LLM applications, built around one loop: observe, evaluate, improve. It is OpenTelemetry native, with Python and TypeScript SDKs and automatic instrumentation for more than fifty libraries including LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Strands, Google ADK and the OpenAI Agents SDK, and it also accepts traces from agent platforms such as ServiceNow, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Salesforce Agentforce. Each agent run is recorded as a session of events, model calls, tool calls, retrieval and custom spans, and shown in tree, timeline, graph, trajectory and thread views, so a failing output leads back to the span that caused it.

On the evaluation side, teams run experiments over datasets, score them with Python, LLM-as-a-judge and human evaluators, compare runs and catch regressions in CI, then run the same evaluators online against production traces with sampling. Alerts watch cost, latency, error rates and evaluator scores and notify by email, Slack or webhook, annotation queues bring domain experts in to label outputs, and production events can be curated into datasets. Prompt versioning and deployments, a playground with the customer's own model providers, and agent skills and a CLI for coding agents round out the platform.

HoneyHive holds SOC 2 Type II, with reports through its Drata Trust Center, is GDPR compliant and signs BAAs on Enterprise, and supports SAML SSO with group provisioning, MFA and role-based access at organization, workspace and project level. It runs as multi-tenant SaaS in AWS US-West-2, as Dedicated Cloud with an isolated data plane in the customer's chosen region, as a hybrid deployment, or fully self-hosted. The free Developer plan covers 10,000 events a month for up to five users with 30-day retention; Enterprise is priced on request, and startups with under five million dollars raised can get a discount.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.honeyhive.ai

Category

Agent infrastructure

Subcategory

Evaluation and observability

Funding status

Raised $7.4M total, a $5.5M Seed led by Insight Partners and a $1.9M Pre-Seed led by Zero Prime Ventures, with the platform reaching general availability in April 2025. Founded by Mohak Sharma (CEO, ex-Templafy) and Dhruv Singh (CTO, ex-Microsoft, OpenAI Innovation Team), based in New York. Customers include Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Global Top 10 banks, and Fortune 500 enterprises. Independent.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

agent observabilityagent evaluationproduction monitoringregression testingprompt management

Target customers

AI engineering teamsenterprise

Deployment options

SaaShybridself-hosted

Integrations

OpenTelemetry native with Python and TypeScript SDKs and automatic instrumentation for more than fifty libraries including LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Strands, Google ADK, and the OpenAI Agents SDK. Integrates with CI through GitHub Actions and exposes a docs MCP server, and other languages can send traces to its OTEL collector.

In practice

Your agent works in testing but fails unpredictably across multi step tool calls in production. You instrument it with HoneyHive's OpenTelemetry SDK, view the run as a graph, and pinpoint where the cascade breaks.

You are about to change a prompt and worry about regressions. You run HoneyHive's offline evaluation on a large test suite in CI, compare against the prior version, and block the deploy if scores drop.

A regulated bank needs agent payloads kept in its own environment. You deploy HoneyHive self hosted with PII scrubbing and a BAA, keeping sensitive traces inside your boundary while still getting evals and monitoring.

Agentic Index coverage score

8.5 / 14 capabilities · 61%

Integrations & Tool Calling Partial

More than fifty libraries are instrumented automatically, including LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Strands, Google ADK and the OpenAI Agents SDK, and HoneyHive accepts traces from third-party agent platforms such as ServiceNow, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Salesforce Agentforce and sends alerts by email, Slack or webhook. These bring trace data in and send notifications out; none connects an agent to a real system to take actions.

SourceHoneyHive, honeyhive.ai/llms.txt and pricing, and docs.honeyhive.ai alertsread 2026-09-21

Workflow Orchestration Unable to verify

The customer's own agent workflows are drawn as graphs and trajectories from their traces. No workflows that sequence, branch or retry steps, or combine deterministic nodes with agent steps, are documented as something HoneyHive runs.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai graph-view and trajectory-viewread 2026-09-21

Knowledge Grounding & RAG Unable to verify

Evaluator templates score the customer's own retrieval for context relevance and answer faithfulness, and traces record the context that retrieval returned. No index, retrieval layer or knowledge API that grounds an agent's behavior in company data is documented.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai evaluator-templates and tracing conceptsread 2026-09-21

Human Oversight & Guardrails Partial

Annotation queues organize events for human review against human evaluators that define the fields a team rates, and those judgments become ground truth for automated evaluators; end-user feedback can be attached to traces. That is a human review surface on the agent's outputs; no approval step, consent checkpoint, runtime guardrail or pause and resume control over an agent's actions is documented.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai annotation-queues, evaluators/human and setting-user-feedbackread 2026-09-21

Security, Identity & Governance Full

HoneyHive holds SOC 2 Type II, audited annually across all hosting options, with reports available through its Drata Trust Center, plus GDPR and HIPAA BAAs on Enterprise. Users sign in with Google, GitHub or Microsoft SSO or SAML 2.0 with Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, OneLogin or Ping, with roles provisioned from SAML group claims and MFA for every account; role-based access applies at organization, workspace and project level with custom roles on Enterprise; data is encrypted with AWS KMS at rest, with customer-managed keys on dedicated and self-hosted deployments, and TLS 1.2+ in transit.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai setup/security and workspace rolesread 2026-09-21

Observability & Auditability Full

Each agent run is recorded as a session of OpenTelemetry events (model calls, tool calls, retrieval and custom spans) and shown in tree, timeline, graph, trajectory and thread views, with trace data queryable through the API, data export on every plan, and retention of 30 days on Developer and custom on Enterprise; the platform is built as an audit trail, so individual records cannot be deleted through the API or UI.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai tracing concepts, tree-view, graph-view, query-data and self-hosted data-flow, and honeyhive.ai/pricingread 2026-09-21

Memory & State Persistence Unable to verify

Sessions, events and datasets persist as observability and test records of what the customer's agent did, and a context retention evaluator scores whether that agent kept information across turns. No session, conversation, workflow or long term memory that an agent reads and writes is documented.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai tracing concepts and evaluator-templatesread 2026-09-21

Deployment & Data Residency Full

Multi-tenant SaaS runs in AWS US-West-2; Dedicated Cloud keeps the data plane on physically isolated infrastructure in the customer's chosen AWS region, including the EU, with the control plane managed by HoneyHive; hybrid pairs a HoneyHive-managed control plane with a self-hosted data plane; and fully self-hosted deploys both planes in the customer's own account, with PrivateLink for private connectivity.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai setup managed, dedicated, self-hosted and security, and honeyhive.ai/pricingread 2026-09-21

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Partial

HoneyHive publishes three official agent skills (honeyhive-instrument, honeyhive-evaluate and honeyhive-improve), described as reusable HoneyHive workflows a coding agent follows, and on Enterprise, organization templates let platform teams define blueprints of evaluators and monitoring charts that every new project inherits. These are packaged, editable starting points for setting HoneyHive up; no ready-made agents, packaged employees or deployable workflows for a buyer's own work are documented.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai ai-coding-agents and workspace/templatesread 2026-09-21

Triggers & Channel Coverage Full

Online evaluations run enabled evaluators automatically and asynchronously on incoming traces that match their filters, at a set sampling rate, and alerts check cost, latency, error and evaluator-score thresholds on a regular cycle and notify by email, Slack or webhook when one is crossed. Evaluation starts on an incoming trace or a monitoring cycle, with no person asking.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai monitoring onlineevals, alerts overview and alertsread 2026-09-21

Model Flexibility & Routing Full

Workspace admins store their own provider credentials for Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Gemini and Vertex AI, plus an OAuth gateway on self-hosted deployments, and HoneyHive uses them for LLM evaluators and the Playground, with provider access scoped by workspace; custom model providers are available in prompt management on every plan, and evaluators can run through Portkey.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai workspace/provider-keys and evaluators/portkey, and honeyhive.ai/pricingread 2026-09-21

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Full

HoneyHive publishes Python and TypeScript SDKs that are OpenTelemetry-native, a documented REST API for events, sessions, datasets, experiments and evaluators, a Control Plane API for workspaces, data planes and alerts, and a CLI for terminal access to resources; other languages send OpenTelemetry traces to its collector, and CI regression detection fits evaluation into a delivery pipeline. It also ships agent skills and an MCP docs search for coding agents.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai sdk-reference, API and control-plane references, cli-reference, ai-coding-agents and ci-regression-detectionread 2026-09-21

Testing, Debugging & Optimization Full

Experiments run an application over datasets and score it with versioned Python, LLM-as-a-judge and human evaluators, results are compared across runs, and CI regression detection catches drops before a change ships; online evaluations score production traces continuously, and production events can be curated into datasets for the next experiment.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai evaluation introduction, comparing evals, ci-regression-detection, onlineevals and dataset-curationread 2026-09-21

Browser & Computer Use Unable to verify

The HoneyHive documentation covers tracing, monitoring, evaluation, datasets, prompts, workspace settings and deployment, and no browser, desktop or computer control is documented.

SourceHoneyHive, docs.honeyhive.ai and llms-full.txtread 2026-09-21

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Recent platform changes

2026-08-14·MCP / tool calling / APIPartially Verified

HoneyHive introduced new Control Plane API endpoints that allow users to programmatically create and update workspaces, as well as manage data planes. The release also hardens security by transitioning service images to minimal base images without shells or OS package tooling.

Bears on: Deployment / data residency

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2026-08-11·Security / enterprisePartially Verified

HoneyHive added support for fine-grained API keys that can be scoped specifically to an organization or workspace. These keys carry only user-selected permissions and are governed by an organization-wide key policy.

Bears on: MCP / tool calling / API

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View all 2 changes for HoneyHive →Tracked since Aug 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Free Developer tier (10K events/mo, 5 users) · Enterprise contact sales

Event volume (trace spans plus metrics), users, retention, and hosting model; paid Enterprise pricing is custom and quoted on request

Free tier

Included quota

Free Developer: 10,000 events/mo, up to 5 users, single workspace, 30 day retention, 1,000 requests/min. Enterprise: custom event limits, unlimited users and workspaces, custom retention. An event is one trace span or metric-label combination.

What is public

The free Developer tier's limits and the full feature matrix across Developer and Enterprise are public, but Enterprise dollar pricing is not.

Billing mechanics

Billed on event volume (each trace span or metric-label pair counts as an event) plus users, retention, and hosting model. The free tier is a hard 10,000 events a month; paid usage is custom Enterprise pricing quoted per customer.

Cost watchouts

Events are counted as trace spans plus metrics, so verbose tracing burns quota quickly; the 30 day retention cap on free and all advanced security and hosting controls require Enterprise.

Variable cost rationale

Cost is driven by event volume (trace spans plus metrics), which scales with how much agent traffic you instrument, and Enterprise pricing is custom, so spend can grow with usage in ways that are not published.

Additional watchouts

Event volume is the meter, and each trace span and metric counts, so heavily instrumented agents consume the free quota fast. Compliance (HIPAA, BAA, PII scrubbing), SAML, custom roles, and self hosting are all Enterprise only.

Overage / add-ons

The free tier is capped at 10,000 events a month; beyond that you move to Enterprise with custom usage limits quoted on request. No public per event overage rate.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

Free Developer tier: 10,000 events/month, up to 5 users, single workspace, 30 day retention, full observability and evaluation suite, no card. Startup discounts for companies under $5M raised.

Lowest paid plan

Enterprise (custom pricing); only the free Developer tier is self serve

Commercial notes

Bottom up free tier for individual developers with the full observability and evaluation suite, then a single Enterprise tier for scale, compliance and hosting flexibility. Startup discounts for companies with under $5 million raised. The pricing page features Commonwealth Bank of Australia as a customer running agents in production.

Key ambiguities

Enterprise dollar pricing and the per event cost above the free quota are not public.

Cancellation / refund

Developer is a free self serve tier. Enterprise terms are contractual and not disclosed.

Support SLA / resale

Community and email support on Developer; Slack or Teams connect, an uptime and support SLA, and a dedicated CSM with team trainings on Enterprise.

Missing data

All Enterprise dollar pricing, per event overage rates, and where custom limits land are quoted on request and not public.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-21

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