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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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Weights & Biases
✓ verifiedFreemium
Weights & Biases is a widely used MLOps platform for experiment tracking, model management and evaluating AI applications.
2.5M visits/mo
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liteLLM
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI gateway giving dev teams unified access, fallbacks and spend tracking across 100+ LLMs.
703K visits/mo
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metaflow.org
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Open-source Python framework, born at Netflix, for building, scaling, and deploying real-world ML, AI, and data science workflows.
20K visits/mo
Pricing
AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Agent and LLM tracing
- ✦Large-scale evaluations
- ✦Open-source Phoenix observability
- ✦Alyx AI engineering agent
- ✦OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
- ✦Experiments and prompt playgrounds
- ✦Open-Source AI Gateway
- ✦Multi-LLM Management & Cost Optimization
- ✦Efficient and Secure LLMs Invocation
- ✦Unified API Signature for LLMs
- ✦Load Balancer for seamless switching between LLMs
- ✦Fine-Grained Traffic Control for LLMs
- ✦LLM Quota Management
- ✦Real-time LLM Traffic Monitoring
- ✦Caching Strategies for AI in Production
- ✦Flexible Prompt Management
- ✦Experiment tracking and visualization for ML training runs
- ✦Model and artifact versioning and management
- ✦Hyperparameter optimization tooling
- ✦Collaborative dashboards and reports for ML teams
- ✦LLM application tracing and evaluation tooling
- ✦Unified access to 100+ LLMs in OpenAI format
- ✦Cost/spend tracking per key, user and team
- ✦Budgets and rate limiting
- ✦Automatic provider fallbacks and retries
- ✦Virtual keys and team management
- ✦Logging and observability integrations
- ✦Plain-Python workflow orchestration
- ✦Automatic versioning and experiment tracking
- ✦Scale-out compute with GPUs and parallel instances
- ✦One-command deployment to production
- ✦Runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes
- ✦Event-based triggering of workflows
Use cases
- →Debugging AI agents in production
- →Measuring LLM output quality
- →Catching regressions before deploy
- →Building API portals for secure sharing of internal APIs with partners.
- →Tracking API usage and driving API monetization.
- →Managing and securing API access in compliance with enterprise policies.
- →Connecting to multiple AI large models simultaneously.
- →Optimizing LLM costs and improving efficiency.
- →Protecting against LLM attacks and data leaks.
- →ML engineers tracking and comparing training experiments
- →Research teams versioning datasets and model checkpoints
- →Teams building and evaluating LLM-powered applications
- →Organizations collaborating on machine learning projects
- →Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
- →Attributing and controlling LLM spend
- →Keeping apps running during provider outages
- →Developing and debugging ML pipelines locally
- →Scaling model training to cloud GPUs
- →Deploying experiments to production unchanged
- →Building reactive, event-driven data systems
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