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Weights & Biases
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Weights & Biases is a widely used MLOps platform for experiment tracking, model management and evaluating AI applications.
2.5M visits/mo
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OpenRouter
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Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.
17M 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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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
No public pricing
Free: $0
Pay-as-you-go: Per-token, no subscription
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AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Experiment tracking and visualization for ML training runs
- ✦Model and artifact versioning and management
- ✦Hyperparameter optimization tooling
- ✦Collaborative dashboards and reports for ML teams
- ✦LLM application tracing and evaluation tooling
- ✦One unified, OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ models
- ✦Automatic provider failover for higher uptime
- ✦Edge routing for low latency
- ✦Custom data and provider policies
- ✦Pay-as-you-go credits usable across any model
- ✦Agent and LLM tracing
- ✦Large-scale evaluations
- ✦Open-source Phoenix observability
- ✦Alyx AI engineering agent
- ✦OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
- ✦Experiments and prompt playgrounds
- ✦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
- →ML engineers tracking and comparing training experiments
- →Research teams versioning datasets and model checkpoints
- →Teams building and evaluating LLM-powered applications
- →Organizations collaborating on machine learning projects
- →Accessing many LLMs through one integration
- →Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
- →Comparing model price and performance
- →Powering agents and AI-native products
- →Debugging AI agents in production
- →Measuring LLM output quality
- →Catching regressions before deploy
- →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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