Tideways

7.0easy start · #22of 33
in Application Performance Monitoring

Free to practise onno
Free trialyes
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on api, Browser, Linux, Mac, Web. Paid plans from $89/mo.

Tideways is ranked #22 of 33 in application performance monitoring on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Browser extension, Linux, macOS, Web. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $89/mo.

Tideways plans and pricing

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Team — 5 million requests/month $89/mo Monthly; yearly billing is 10% off 5 million requests/month · 5 traces/minute · Up to 500 spans/trace · 5-day lookback · 6 weeks of historical data tideways.com · 11 Oct 2026

Team — 15 million requests/month $129/mo Monthly; yearly billing is 10% off 15 million requests/month · 10 traces/minute · Up to 500 spans/trace · 5-day lookback · 6 weeks of historical data tideways.com · 11 Oct 2026

Team — 25 million requests/month $179/mo Monthly; yearly billing is 10% off 25 million requests/month · 15 traces/minute · Up to 500 spans/trace · 5-day lookback · 6 weeks of historical data tideways.com · 11 Oct 2026

Business — 5 million requests/month $189/mo Monthly; yearly billing is 10% off 5 million requests/month · 25 traces/minute · Up to 1500 spans/trace · 30-day lookback · 15 months of historical data tideways.com · 11 Oct 2026

Team — 50 million requests/month $239/mo Monthly; yearly billing is 10% off 50 million requests/month · 20 traces/minute · Up to 500 spans/trace · 5-day lookback · 6 weeks of historical data tideways.com · 11 Oct 2026

Team — 100 million requests/month $329/mo Monthly; yearly billing is 10% off 100 million requests/month · 30 traces/minute · Up to 500 spans/trace · 5-day lookback · 6 weeks of historical data tideways.com · 11 Oct 2026

Compared on application performance monitoring

Free plan: No
Distributed tracing: Yes
Transaction tracing: Yes
Deployment model: hybrid

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The record

Product: Tideways monitors PHP application performance in production and helps teams identify slow code, queries, external calls, errors, and exceptions.
Profiling: The profiler provides Timeline, Flame Graph, and Call Graph views and can be triggered on demand using the Chrome Extension.
Monitoring: Monitoring includes per-minute response-time and request graphs, transaction and endpoint monitoring, weekly reports, history, and release comparisons.
Error tracking: Tideways groups errors with matching stack traces, collects stack traces and context, and lets users resolve or ignore error groups.
Integrations: Basic integrations include email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams; advanced integrations include PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Splunk On-Call, and Webhooks.
Framework support: Automatic instrumentation supports PHP frameworks including Symfony, Laravel, Shopware, Magento, WordPress, Drupal, and TYPO3.
Install platforms: The Tideways PHP extension is available for Linux and macOS; Windows and FreeBSD are not supported.
Security and privacy: Tideways says data is sent using SSL encryption, follows GDPR, and applies a safe-by-default policy that avoids transmitting data that could contain website users’ personal data.
Data location: Tideways says it stores account, monitoring, and profiling data in SysEleven data centers in Berlin, Germany.
Support: Email support is available in English and German on weekdays during 8:00–18:00 Europe/Berlin office hours.
Limits: When the monthly trace-trigger quota is reached, triggering callgraph traces through the Chrome Extension, command line, or tracepoints is disabled until the month ends.
Company: Tideways describes itself as a PHP performance insights company and says it has served as a performance specialist since 2014.
Headquarters: Bonn, Germany
Price from: $89/mo

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Application Performance Monitoring in 2026#22 of 33
Best Error Monitoring Software in 2026#18 of 30

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Sources

tideways.com· checked 11 Oct 2026
tideways.com/profiler/profiling-tracing· checked 11 Oct 2026
tideways.com/profiler/monitoring-alerting· checked 11 Oct 2026
tideways.com/profiler/error-exception-tracking· checked 11 Oct 2026
tideways.com/profiler/pricing· checked 11 Oct 2026
support.tideways.com/documentation/reference/php-extension/s· checked 11 Oct 2026
support.tideways.com/documentation/compatibility-and-require· checked 11 Oct 2026
tideways.com/profiler/support· checked 11 Oct 2026
tideways.com/about-us· checked 11 Oct 2026