New Relic vs Honeycomb
Four of fourteen models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; one named Honeycomb. Both were named by all fourteen models and New Relic carries 69 labels and Honeycomb 29, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in nine categories this edition.
Named in five categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the observability platforms page.
By framing
New RelicFirst choices, of fourteen modelsHoneycomb
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, New Relic and Honeycomb were named in the same answer 119 times, of the 709 answers naming New Relic and the 140 naming Honeycomb. In those answers Honeycomb took the first choice two times and New Relic twenty-two.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | | ||
| Grok 4.20 | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | | | |||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | | | ||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | | ||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | |||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | ||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | |
New Relic Honeycomb first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, New Relic on the left and Honeycomb on the right.The direct prompt
New Relic first, Honeycomb not the choice
4 of 14 modelsHoneycomb was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Honeycomb first, New Relic not the choice
1 of 14 modelsNew Relic was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
8 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
New Relic27%#2 of 13Honeycomb0%#8 of 13New Relic25%#3 of 10Honeycomb2%#6 of 10New Relic16%#3 of 10Honeycomb0%#9 of 10What the models said about New Relic
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.
“New Relic (November 2023): Security breach involving unauthorized access to staging environment, credential theft, and social engineering.” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid platforms like Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace initially” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · hard negative
“New Relic/Datadog - Avoid for tight budgets” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · hard negative
“For most mid-market B2B companies, New Relic often provides the best balance of features, pricing predictability, and ease of use” GLM 4.7 FlashX · direct prompt · first choice
What the models said about Honeycomb
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“I'd suggest Grafana Cloud or Honeycomb as the starting point” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · first choice
“For High-Cardinality & Developer-Centric APM: Honeycomb (predictable event-based pricing, excellent for distributed tracing)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · alternative
“The Engineering-First Choice: Honeycomb ... Trade-off: It lacks some of the "batteries included" infrastructure features” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase prompt · alternative
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.