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Prompting, evaluation & observability

Prompt management, evaluation harnesses, tracing and LLM observability.

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Langfuse

Langfuse (part of ClickHouse, Inc. since January 2026) · Prompting, evaluation & observability

In-depth entry

Open-source LLM observability and evaluation platform: tracing, LLM-as-judge and human evals, prompt management, datasets and cost dashboards, self-hostable or as Langfuse Cloud

MITOpen sourceFreemiumSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

LiteLLM

BerriAI · Prompting, evaluation & observability

In-depth entry

Open-source Python SDK and self-hosted AI gateway that calls 100+ LLM providers in the OpenAI format, with routing, fallbacks, virtual keys, budgets, spend tracking and logging callbacks

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc. · Model providers & APIs

Unified API gateway to hundreds of models from many providers with automatic fallbacks, credit-based pass-through billing, BYOK, free models and data-policy routing

ProprietaryFreemiumUsage-basedBroken

LangSmith

LangChain, Inc. · Prompting, evaluation & observability

LangChain's hosted platform for tracing, evaluating and deploying LLM applications and agents, with prompt tooling, an LLM gateway and cloud, hybrid or self-hosted options

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Weights & Biases

CoreWeave · Training & fine-tuning

ML experiment tracking, sweeps, artifacts and model registry plus Weave for LLM tracing and evaluation, now sold by CoreWeave within its Forge platform with a free academic tier

MITFreemiumPaidSelf-hostedBroken

promptfoo

Promptfoo, Inc. · Prompting, evaluation & observability

Open-source, local-first CLI and library for evaluating prompts, models, RAG pipelines and agents, with automated red teaming and CI integration

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

DSPy

Stanford NLP and the DSPy community · Prompting, evaluation & observability

Python framework for programming language-model pipelines with typed signatures and modules, then optimizing prompts and weights automatically against a metric

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Ragas

Vibrant Labs (formerly Exploding Gradients) · Prompting, evaluation & observability

Open-source Python library for evaluating LLM and RAG applications with LLM-driven and custom metrics, experiments, dataset management and result tracking

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalBroken

Braintrust

Braintrust Data, Inc. · Prompting, evaluation & observability

Hosted observability and evaluation platform for AI agents with tracing, experiments, pattern detection, a CLI, MCP access and an AI assistant (Loop) that analyzes traces and builds evals

MixedFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026