New Relic vs Honeycomb
Seven of fourteen models named New Relic first on the direct prompt; zero named Honeycomb. New Relic was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Honeycomb by seven and New Relic carries 65 labels and Honeycomb 10, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in eight categories this edition.
Named in six 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 application performance monitoring page.
By framing
New RelicFirst choices, of fourteen modelsHoneycomb
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 4.1 Fast | | | | | | |
| 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
7 of 14 modelsHoneycomb was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
4 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 Relic53%#1 of 10Honeycomb0%#– of 10New Relic46%#1 of 12Honeycomb2%#8 of 12New Relic11%#3 of 9Honeycomb0%#7 of 9What the models said about New Relic
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“New Relic if your team lacks a dedicated observability engineer.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“New Relic (Often considered the most generous) ... It offers the highest data allowance among major enterprise vendors.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget 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. Two of two in this category shown.
“The Developer-First / Observability Path (Highly Recommended)... Honeycomb is unmatched.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“If you are building microservices/serverless and want ultimate flexibility in tracing attributes, choose Honeycomb.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · comparative 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.