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honeyhive.ai
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Observability and evaluation platform for production LLM agents, built on OpenTelemetry for tracing, monitoring and testing.
24K 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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ApX Machine Learning
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Tools, model specs and courses for LLM engineers-VRAM calculator, benchmarks and model directory-with free and paid tiers.
355K visits/mo
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Higress
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Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.
29K visits/mo
Pricing
Developer: $0 (10K events/month, up to 5 users, 30-day retention)
AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Agent and LLM tracing
- ✦Large-scale evaluations
- ✦Open-source Phoenix observability
- ✦Alyx AI engineering agent
- ✦OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
- ✦Experiments and prompt playgrounds
- ✦VRAM/GPU-memory calculator for LLMs
- ✦LLM performance rankings and benchmarks
- ✦Model directory and comparison
- ✦AI/ML courses and learning roadmap
- ✦Calculator API and exportable cost reports
- ✦Engineering blog and guides
- ✦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
Use cases
- →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
- →Debugging AI agents in production
- →Measuring LLM output quality
- →Catching regressions before deploy
- →Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
- →Comparing and selecting LLMs
- →Learning ML and LLM engineering
- →Modeling production deployment costs
- →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
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