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Jan.ai
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
378K visits/mo609 saves
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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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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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Fiddler AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Enterprise AI observability and security platform to monitor, evaluate, and govern agentic and ML systems with guardrails.
51K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Developer: $0 (10K events/month, up to 5 users, 30-day retention)
No public pricing
Free: $0 (real-time guardrails)
Developer: $0.002 per trace
Core features
- ✦Run open-source LLMs locally
- ✦Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Private, offline-capable AI chat
- ✦Open source and self-hostable
- ✦Model library via Hugging Face
- ✦Cross-platform desktop app
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →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
- →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
- →Monitoring production AI agents
- →Enforcing safety guardrails on LLM apps
- →Evaluating and debugging model behavior
- →Governance and compliance for enterprise AI
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