# Galileo API + MCP vs HoneyHive

> HoneyHive has a score of 55.9 (C) against Galileo API + MCP's 48 (D). Both do obs traces. The largest gap is security & auth, 28 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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HoneyHive has a score of 55.9 (C) against Galileo API + MCP's 48 (D). Both do obs traces. The largest gap is security & auth, 28 points.

- Galileo API + MCP: grade D, 48/100, rank #378 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/galileo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/galileo.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 Galileo API + MCP for agent ergonomics (+10).

Pick HoneyHive for reliability (+26), schema & documentation (+7), security & auth (+28), transparency & trust (+12).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Galileo API + MCP | HoneyHive | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 18 | 44 | HoneyHive +26 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 86 | HoneyHive +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 63 | Galileo API + MCP +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 33 | 61 | HoneyHive +28 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 77 | HoneyHive +3 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 68 | HoneyHive +12 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **48 · D** | **55.9 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Galileo API + MCP | HoneyHive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Galileo (now Splunk Agent Observability, Cisco) | HoneyHive |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.galileo.ai/v2` | `https://api.dp1.us.honeyhive.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs only, platform closed source) | MIT (SDK, CLI and OpenAPI specs only, platform closed source) |
| Tools exposed | 8 | 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 | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-29 |
| Popularity | 1.4k npm/wk, 6.2k PyPI/wk | 60 npm/wk, 2.1k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**Galileo API + MCP.** OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 184 paths and 244 operations. No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA.

**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

### Galileo API + MCP

1. Check which side the account lives on first. Pre-August Galileo accounts use api.galileo.ai, Splunk SaaS accounts use app.{realm}.observability.splunkcloud.com/ao/api/
2. Send the key as `Splunk-AO-API-Key`. The current spec no longer lists `Galileo-API-Key`
3. Page list endpoints with `limit` and `starting_token`
4. Use the error catalogue's retriable flag to decide whether to retry. 429s carry no documented `Retry-After`
5. Use the REST API to read traces. The MCP server mostly creates datasets and prompts

### 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. Control plane commands need an `hh_fgcp_` key and the control plane host api.cp.us.honeyhive.ai

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