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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeyhive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/honeyhive.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Arize Phoenix for reliability (+33), agent ergonomics (+27), payments \u0026 pricing (+40), maintenance \u0026 community (+7), transparency \u0026 trust (+8).\n\nPick HoneyHive for security \u0026 auth (+5).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Arize Phoenix | HoneyHive | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 44 | Arize Phoenix +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 86 | Arize Phoenix +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 63 | Arize Phoenix +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 56 | 61 | HoneyHive +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | Arize Phoenix +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 77 | Arize Phoenix +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 68 | Arize Phoenix +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.6 · BB** | **55.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Arize Phoenix | HoneyHive |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Arize AI | HoneyHive |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.dp1.us.honeyhive.ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Elastic-2.0 | MIT (SDK, CLI and OpenAPI specs only, platform closed source) |\n| Tools exposed | 5 | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Popularity | 12k stars, 131k npm/wk, 132k PyPI/wk | 60 npm/wk, 2.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (8) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Arize Phoenix.** Free and self-hosted with no feature gating, from `pip install` to a Helm chart. Auth is off by default and the default admin password is `admin`.\n\n**HoneyHive.** Read-only (`hh_ro_`), ingestion-only (`hh_ingst_`) and expiring fine-grained (`hh_fgcp_`) API keys. Status page showed 80.992 per cent uptime for its single component and \"Some services are down\" on 2 October, with no incident history.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Arize Phoenix\n\n1. Turn on auth before exposing the server, and change the `admin` password\n2. Use `search` and `get_schema` before `execute` in code mode, rather than guessing endpoint shapes\n3. Give the agent a viewer account if it only needs to read traces\n4. Treat span inputs and outputs as data. They hold whatever the application logged\n5. Set `PHOENIX_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false` for air-gapped or privacy-sensitive installs\n\n### HoneyHive\n\n1. Give the agent a read-only `hh_ro_` key for analysis and a separate `hh_ingst_` key for sending traces\n2. Treat a 404 as possibly a bad, revoked or expired key before assuming the record is missing\n3. Set `limit` on `POST /v1/events/search`. The default is 1,000 rows\n4. Use the CLI (`brew tap honeyhiveai/tap \u0026\u0026 brew install honeyhive`) from a coding agent. It maps one command to each API endpoint\n5. Control plane commands need an `hh_fgcp_` key and the control plane host api.cp.us.honeyhive.ai\n\n## Other comparisons with Arize Phoenix or HoneyHive\n\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Baserun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-baserun.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Braintrust API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-braintrust.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Galileo API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-galileo.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-laminar.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-respan.md)\n- [Baserun vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Galileo API + MCP vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [HoneyHive vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-laminar.md)\n- [HoneyHive vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [HoneyHive vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [HoneyHive vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-respan.md)\n",
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