Middleware vs Scout APM
Middleware
middleware.io
Scout APM
scoutapm.comSide by side
| Figure | Middleware | Scout APM |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.30/mo | $10/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 10 |
| Spec score · Application Performance Monitoring | 9.0 (#3) | 7.4 (#29) |
| Spec score · Runtime Monitoring Software | 9.0 (#5) | 7.4 (#35) |
| Spec score · Application Performance & Observability - Midmarket Software | 8.9 (#3) | 7.4 (#15) |
| Spec score · Application Performance & Observability - Enterprise Software | 9.0 (#4) | 7.4 (#14) |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel, databases, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Logstash, Fluentd and the OpenTelemetry Collector. | Listed integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, and GitHub. |
| Security | Middleware says customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit using TLS 1.2+ and AES-256. | Scout states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified, conducts annual third-party penetration testing, and encrypts data at rest and in transit. |
| Support | Free users receive community support, pay-as-you-go customers get a dedicated Slack or Teams channel, and custom-contract customers receive an account team and 24x7 support. | Every plan includes human support; paid plans get priority response times and Enterprise includes dedicated premier support. |
Plans
Scout APM
- More Anomaly Detection$10 a month
- More Errors$19 a month
- Startup$19 a month
- Small$39 a month
- More Logs$40 a month
- Production Ready$64 a month
- Medium$99 a month
- Large$299 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
- FreePrice not published
In their own words
Middleware
Middleware is a hybrid observability platform for detecting and resolving issues across infrastructure, application performance, and real-user monitoring. Its listed coverage includes infrastructure monitoring, logs, metrics, distributed tracing, database monitoring, synthetic monitoring, browser testing, and LLM observability. The AI SRE Agent and OpsAI capabilities include root cause analysis, automatic issue detection, faster issue solving, and automatic PR generation. The Free Forever plan costs nothing and includes up to 100GB of data, 1k RUM sessions, 20k synthetic checks, 10 browser test runs, and 2 million OpsAI tokens, with 14-day retention and community support. Pay As You Go costs $0.30 a month, billed according to use, with default 30-day retention. Middleware lists 450+ integrations and a Public API. It runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and API. The company says it encrypts customer data in transit and at rest using TLS 1.2+ and AES-256.
Scout APM
Scout APM is a cloud application performance monitoring and observability platform from Zimuth, Inc., available through web and API interfaces. It combines traces, metrics, logs, error tracking, and alerting for engineering teams investigating performance problems. Scout lists agents for Ruby, Python, PHP, Elixir, and Node.js. It detects slow database queries and N+1 patterns and provides query analysis. Its anomaly detection learns normal behavior for each endpoint and alerts when that behavior changes without requiring configured thresholds. An MCP server, CLI, and API let AI coding agents access production errors, traces, and performance data. Integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Opsgenie, Discord, Zapier, webhooks, Rollbar, Sentry, Honeybadger, Bugsnag, and GitHub. The Free plan includes 300K monthly transactions, 1 GB log data, 5,000 errors, one anomaly-monitored endpoint, and unlimited users and apps. Paid plans start at $19 a month, with a 14-day trial. Human support is included on every plan; paid plans add priority response, and Enterprise includes premier support.