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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
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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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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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Openlayer
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.
24K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Self-Hosted: $0 (Apache 2.0, no usage limits)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Basic: Free (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Developing and debugging ML pipelines locally
- →Scaling model training to cloud GPUs
- →Deploying experiments to production unchanged
- →Building reactive, event-driven data systems
- →Trace and debug LLM applications
- →Monitor AI cost and performance
- →Evaluate prompts and models
- →Add observability without code changes
- →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.
- →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.
- →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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