CircleCI vs Honeycomb: who uses which
Customers, public proof and the companies that use both.
On usedby, 84 companies use CircleCI and 30 use Honeycomb. 1 company uses both, including LaunchDarkly. CircleCI leads among the DevTools & Infrastructure companies on usedby that use either tool.Latest check Nov 13, 2026: 114 of 114 public lines checked. Counts include every proof level, job-post signals included. A company on both tools counts at any proof level, and a job post on one side is marked as such.
Who uses CircleCI, Honeycomb, or both
Every company with a public proof for at least one of the two tools.
83
listed for CircleCI only
1
company uses both
29
listed for Honeycomb only
On usedby, 83 companies are listed for CircleCI only, 29 are listed for Honeycomb only and 1 uses both, out of the 113 companies listed for at least one. An absent listing does not prove non-use.
Who uses both
Companies with a public line on both tools, at any proof level: the strongest proofs come first, and a job post is marked.
| Company |
|---|
 LaunchDarkly |
By industry
Which tool the companies on usedby use, by industry. Shares of the companies on usedby that use CircleCI, Honeycomb or both: a share of the companies on usedby, not of the market.
Listed for CircleCI onlyBothListed for Honeycomb only
More common with CircleCI
- DevTools & Infrastructure10 of the 13 DevTools & Infrastructure companies on usedby that use either tool use CircleCI, 1 of them alongside Honeycomb.
- Artificial Intelligence4 of the 6 Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby that use either tool use CircleCI.
- Marketing Tech3 of the 5 Marketing Tech companies on usedby that use either tool use CircleCI.
Source: every usedby line, from confirmed proofs to job-post signals (the weakest proof level).
Side by side
Facts from our data and from each vendor's public pages. Each line says where it comes from.
Vendor facts checked: CircleCI, 4 of 5; Honeycomb, 0 of 5. Missing facts remain unverified, not absent features.
CircleCI
HoneycombWhat customers report
Results as the vendor or the customer published them, with the source and the date.
CircleCI
cut its AWS EC2 compute costs by 50%
Honeycomb
Vendor case study, circleci.com, published Nov 12, 2026
the time needed to run test suites has dropped from more than two hours to just 21 minutes on average
gtlogic
Vendor case study, circleci.com, published Nov 12, 2026
Honeycomb
we saved 16% in total observability tooling costs
Duolingo
Vendor case study, honeycomb.io, published Dec 3, 2024
Reduced investigation times from days to hours
Gearset
Vendor case study, honeycomb.io, published Jan 13, 2025
Questions about CircleCI and Honeycomb
Which is used more, CircleCI or Honeycomb?
CircleCI has more customers on usedby: 84 against 30 for Honeycomb.
Do companies use both CircleCI and Honeycomb?
Yes. 1 company uses both on usedby, including LaunchDarkly.
Who uses CircleCI?
84 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses CircleCI.
Who uses Honeycomb?
30 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Honeycomb.
How does usedby count customers?
A company counts when a public page shows it: a vendor's customer page, a case study, a press release or a job post, most saved with a dated capture. Every line is a customer, at one of four proof levels: confirmed, declared by the company itself, observed or signal (a job post, the weakest). A company counts as using both tools when it has a line on each, at any level; the list shows the strongest proofs first and marks job posts.