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Claude
✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K saves
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Higress
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.

29K visits/mo
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portkey.ai
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AI gateway and observability suite for governing and optimizing LLM apps; strong dev-tool traffic.

266K visits/mo
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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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Maxim AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

End-to-end evaluation and observability platform for building, testing, and monitoring AI agents and LLM apps.

102K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month
Max: From $100/month
Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)
Enterprise: Contact sales

No public pricing

No public pricing

AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
Developer: $0 (3 seats, 10k logs/mo)
Professional: $29/seat/mo (100k logs/mo)
Business: $49/seat/mo (500k logs/mo)

Free trial available

Core features
  • Conversational writing and editing
  • Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Web search plus memory across chats
  • Connectors and remote MCP integrations
  • Extended thinking for complex tasks
  • Unified proxy and protocol conversion across 100+ LLMs
  • Model-level fallback and routing
  • Semantic and exact-match AI caching
  • Token tracking and quota controls
  • Content-safety and data-protection filtering
  • MCP service hosting and plugin marketplace
  • AI Gateway for reliable LLM routing
  • Prompt Engineering for collaborative prompt management
  • Guardrails for enforcing reliable LLM behavior
  • Observability Suite for monitoring costs, quality, and latency
  • MCP Client for building AI agents with real-world tool access
  • Agent and LLM tracing
  • Large-scale evaluations
  • Open-source Phoenix observability
  • Alyx AI engineering agent
  • OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
  • Experiments and prompt playgrounds
  • Prompt IDE, versioning, and deployment
  • Agent simulation and evaluation
  • Production tracing and observability
  • Pre-built and custom evaluators
  • Human-in-the-loop evaluation
  • Bifrost LLM gateway
Use cases
  • Drafting and refining written content
  • Building and debugging software
  • Analyzing datasets for insights
  • Research and learning support
  • Team and enterprise automation
  • Centralizing access to multiple LLM providers
  • Building and governing AI agent/MCP services
  • Controlling token spend across teams
  • Adding caching and safety to LLM calls
  • Monitor costs, quality, and latency of AI applications.
  • Route to 250+ LLMs reliably with a single endpoint.
  • Streamline and scale prompt engineering.
  • Enforce reliable LLM behavior with guardrails.
  • Build agents with access to real-world tools.
  • Debugging AI agents in production
  • Measuring LLM output quality
  • Catching regressions before deploy
  • Testing and comparing prompts and models
  • Evaluating and simulating AI agents
  • Monitoring agents in production
  • Running human evaluation pipelines
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