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Arize AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI observability and evaluation platform to trace, evaluate and improve LLM agents in production, with an open-source Phoenix core.
248K visits/mo
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Helicone
✓ verifiedFreemium
LLM observability platform and AI gateway that lets teams route, log, debug and analyze their model requests.
100K visits/mo
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honeyhive.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Observability and evaluation platform for production LLM agents, built on OpenTelemetry for tracing, monitoring and testing.
24K visits/mo
Pricing
AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)
Free trial available
Developer: $0 (10K events/month, up to 5 users, 30-day retention)
Core features
- ✦Agent and LLM tracing
- ✦Large-scale evaluations
- ✦Open-source Phoenix observability
- ✦Alyx AI engineering agent
- ✦OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
- ✦Experiments and prompt playgrounds
- ✦Request logging and LLM observability
- ✦AI gateway with routing and automatic fallbacks
- ✦Caching and rate limiting
- ✦Session, user and custom-property analytics
- ✦Prompts, playground and datasets for testing
- ✦Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure and more
- ✦OpenTelemetry-native distributed tracing across 100+ LLMs and frameworks
- ✦Online evaluation via LLM-as-a-judge or code
- ✦Offline experiments and regression detection
- ✦Annotation queues for expert review
- ✦Alerts and drift detection
- ✦Prompt management, CLI and docs MCP server
Use cases
- →Debugging AI agents in production
- →Measuring LLM output quality
- →Catching regressions before deploy
- →Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
- →Analyzing model usage and cost
- →Caching responses to cut spend
- →Managing prompts and testing datasets
- →Debugging multi-agent systems
- →Monitoring live agent quality at scale
- →Catching regressions before release
- →Human review of edge cases
- →Aligning automated evaluators with domain experts
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