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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
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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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honeyhive.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

Observability and evaluation platform for production LLM agents, built on OpenTelemetry for tracing, monitoring and testing.

24K visits/mo
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Openlayer
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AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.

24K visits/mo
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AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
Developer: $0 (10K events/month, up to 5 users, 30-day retention)
Basic: Free (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • 100+ automated AI tests
  • Offline evaluation and CI/CD for AI
  • Real-time observability and tracing
  • Guardrails against PII leaks, injection, hallucination
  • Data-quality and drift monitoring
  • Compliance/governance alignment
  • Git, SDK, CLI and REST API integration
Use cases
  • 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
  • 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
  • Evaluate models before production
  • Monitor live AI systems for issues
  • Prevent unsafe or non-compliant outputs
  • Catch data drift and quality problems
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