Bugsnag vs Honeybadger
Bugsnag and Honeybadger are both error tracking software. Bugsnag is a commercial product from SmartBear Software. Honeybadger is a commercial product from Honeybadger Industries.
Which to pick
- Pick Bugsnag when
- Mobile app teams that care about crash-free session rates per release and want an established hosted tool.
- Pick Honeybadger when
- A small team, especially a Rails shop, wants errors, uptime and job monitoring from one simple vendor.
Side by side
Reports errors and crashes from web and mobile apps, groups them, and tracks app stability scores per release.
Error tracking, uptime checks, cron monitoring and logging in one hosted service, strongest for Ruby, Elixir, PHP and JavaScript apps.
Owned by SmartBear, so the roadmap follows a larger tools portfolio; pricing rises with event volume.
A small company with a narrower feature set than the large observability platforms.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by SmartBear Software
Closed source, sold by Honeybadger Industries
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
No Wikipedia article of its own (both)
Other comparisons
More error tracking tools
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.