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Best LLM Observability Tools in 2026
When you need visibility into an LLM application, compare what each tool can trace and how it handles evaluation and prompt work. Agent tracing, LLM tracing, and retrieval tracing describe different parts of the activity you may want to inspect; LLM evaluations and prompt management add other oversight dimensions.
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AgentOps From $40/mo Free plan Open source Web · API · Self-hosted9.3 Visit Specs - 02
Evidently AI It suits teams that evaluate or monitor language models, AI applications, agents, or predictive ML workflows.
From $80/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.3 Visit Specs - 03
Braintrust Braintrust is aimed at teams operating AI agents in production, from early-stage teams to enterprises.
From $249/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted9.2 Visit Specs - 04
Langfuse Langfuse suits teams building AI agent applications that need tracing, prompt management, and evaluation tools.
From $29/mo Free plan Open source Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted9.0 Visit Specs - 05
LangSmith LangSmith suits teams engineering AI agents that need evaluation, tracing, prompt work, deployment, and production monitoring.
From $39/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.0 Visit Specs - 06
LangWatch LangWatch suits AI teams shipping agents, including developers, product owners, QA, and domain experts working with evaluation workflows.
From €29/mo Free plan Open source Web · macOS · Linux · API9.0 Visit Specs - 07
Opik Opik suits teams developing applications or agents that make calls to an LLM and want tracing and evaluation across the development cycle.
From $19/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.8 Visit Specs - 08
Giskard Giskard suits teams evaluating conversational AI agents for security and quality issues before production.
Free plan Open source Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted8.7 Visit Specs - 09
W&B Weave Weave suits teams monitoring and evaluating production AI agents, particularly those using supported frameworks and models.
From $60/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.6 Visit Specs - 10 OpenLIT
OpenLIT suits teams that need LLM tracing, evaluation, prompt management, and cost tracking, especially those seeking self-hosted deployment.
Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.5 Visit Specs - 11 Arize AX
AX suits teams building AI agents that need tracing, evaluations, investigations, and experiments.
From $50/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.4 Visit Specs - 12
Confident AI It suits engineers, QA teams, product managers, subject-matter experts, and annotators responsible for AI quality and governance.
From $200/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.4 Visit Specs - 13
Promptfoo It suits developers and enterprises evaluating prompts or testing AI applications for risks.
Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.3 Visit Specs - 14
Helicone Helicone suits teams routing and observing AI application requests across model providers, including teams that need self-hosting or LLM cost tracking.
From $79/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.2 Visit Specs - 15 Lunary From $20/mo Open source Web · API · Self-hosted8.2 Visit Specs
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It suits teams operating AI applications that need model, retrieval, tool, prompt, and evaluation tracing.
Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.1 Visit Specs - 17
Laminar Laminar suits teams instrumenting AI-agent systems that need tracing, evaluations, debugging, and dashboards.
From $30/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.1 Visit Specs - 18
Maxim AI It suits cross-functional AI teams that need to evaluate agents and monitor them in production.
From $29/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.1 Visit Specs - 19
Fiddler AI Fiddler positions its platform for enterprises managing AI agents and predictive applications at scale.
Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.0 Visit Specs - 20
Galileo Galileo is designed for engineers, product managers and subject matter experts building AI applications.
From $100/mo Web · API · Self-hosted7.9 Visit Specs - 21 TruLens Free plan Open source API · Self-hosted7.9 Visit Specs
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HoneyHive HoneyHive is aimed at AI platform teams, AI engineers, domain experts, and risk or governance teams.
Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted7.8 Visit Specs - 23 Parea AI
It suits teams building production LLM applications that need evaluations, production observability, prompt testing, or human review.
From $150/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted7.7 Visit Specs - 24 Respan (formerly Keywords AI)
Respan suits teams that need to route model requests while tracing and evaluating AI workflows in production.
From $16.58/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted7.7 Visit Specs - 25
Ragas Linux · API · Self-hosted7.1 Visit Specs
Token cost tracking can help you assess usage alongside deployment options, free-plan availability, and paid-from pricing. Evidently AI, W&B Weave, and Opik are among the named options to compare. Check which listed capabilities match the signals you need to monitor, and weigh how each tool’s deployment and plan details fit your setup.
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