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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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Fiddler AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Enterprise AI observability and security platform to monitor, evaluate, and govern agentic and ML systems with guardrails.

51K visits/mo
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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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Openlit
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source, OpenTelemetry-native platform for LLM observability, tracing, evaluation and prompt management.

9.1K 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)
Free: $0 (real-time guardrails)
Developer: $0.002 per trace

No public pricing

Self-Hosted: $0 (Apache 2.0, no usage limits)
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
  • End-to-end agentic and ML observability
  • Real-time guardrails (hallucination, PII, jailbreak)
  • Continuous evaluations and custom judges
  • Root-cause analysis and decision lineage
  • AI governance, risk, and compliance controls
  • Flexible SaaS, VPC, or on-prem deployment
  • 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
  • OpenTelemetry-native distributed tracing
  • Token usage and cost tracking
  • LLM evaluations (online/offline)
  • Prompt management and versioning
  • GPU and vector-DB monitoring
  • 60+ LLM/framework integrations
  • Self-hostable via Docker; export to Grafana/Datadog
  • 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 production AI agents
  • Enforcing safety guardrails on LLM apps
  • Evaluating and debugging model behavior
  • Governance and compliance for enterprise AI
  • 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
  • Trace and debug LLM applications
  • Monitor AI cost and performance
  • Evaluate prompts and models
  • Add observability without code changes
  • 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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