# Baserun vs HoneyHive > HoneyHive has a score of 55.9 (C) against Baserun's 7.3 (F). Both do obs traces. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 77 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-honeyhive - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-honeyhive.md (~1,550 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-honeyhive.min.md (~330 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-honeyhive.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-04 HoneyHive has a score of 55.9 (C) against Baserun's 7.3 (F). Both do obs traces. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 77 points. - Baserun: grade F, 7.3/100, rank retired, not ranked. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserun.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baserun.json - HoneyHive: grade C, 55.9/100, rank #310 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeyhive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/honeyhive.json ## Which one, for what Pick Baserun for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more). Pick HoneyHive for reliability (+44), schema & documentation (+71), agent ergonomics (+58), security & auth (+56), payments & pricing (+20), maintenance & community (+77), transparency & trust (+32). ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Baserun | HoneyHive | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 0 | 44 | HoneyHive +44 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 86 | HoneyHive +71 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 63 | HoneyHive +58 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 5 | 61 | HoneyHive +56 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 20 | HoneyHive +20 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 0 | 77 | HoneyHive +77 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 36 | 68 | HoneyHive +32 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **7.3 · F** | **55.9 · C** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Baserun | HoneyHive | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API | | Vendor | Baserun | HoneyHive | | Hosted endpoint | `https://app.baserun.ai` | `https://api.dp1.us.honeyhive.ai` | | Transports | HTTP | HTTP | | Auth | API key | API key | | Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | none | MIT (SDK, CLI and OpenAPI specs only, platform closed source) | | Tools exposed | none | none | | Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a | | p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet | | Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet | | Read-only variant documented | no | yes | | llms.txt | no | yes | | MCP registry | not listed | not listed | | Last release | 2024-06-26 | 2026-09-29 | | Popularity | 115 npm/wk, 209 PyPI/wk | 60 npm/wk, 2.1k PyPI/wk | | Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) | ## Verdicts **Baserun.** SDKs were MIT licensed and the Python source is still public at github.com/baserun-ai/baserun-py. Service offline since late 2024. api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve and app.baserun.ai serves an expired certificate. **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. ## Before you call either ### Baserun 1. Don't install `baserun` from PyPI or npm. Nothing answers behind it 2. Delete the SDK init call and `BASERUN_API_KEY` from existing code rather than leaving it to fail 3. Ignore docs.baserun.ai. It describes a service that no longer runs and doesn't say so ### HoneyHive 1. Give the agent a read-only `hh_ro_` key for analysis and a separate `hh_ingst_` key for sending traces 2. Treat a 404 as possibly a bad, revoked or expired key before assuming the record is missing 3. Set `limit` on `POST /v1/events/search`. The default is 1,000 rows 4. Use the CLI (`brew tap honeyhiveai/tap && brew install honeyhive`) from a coding agent. It maps one command to each API endpoint 5. 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