Tech riderRev. 7 Oct 2026
  1. 1Runs onAPI, self-hosted
  2. 2CostsFree plan
  3. 3Deploymentself-hosted
3 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: trulens.org
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Overview

TruLens is ranked #25 of 30 in AI LLM evaluation tools on Specifiction. It runs on API, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.

TruLens plans and pricing

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Open source Free Open source Python SDK · install with pip or from source trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026

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Deployment
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Facts

Purpose
TruLens evaluates and traces AI agents to help find failures and reduce costs while maintaining quality.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Tracing
It records per-step latency, inputs, outputs, tokens, and cost so users can inspect causes of poor answers.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Evaluation
It supports agent, RAG, MCP app, and summarization evaluations with metrics including tool selection, groundedness, context relevance, and correctness.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Custom metrics
Users can define custom metrics with Python functions or LLM-as-judge prompts and tune judges with rubrics and examples.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Experiment comparison
The leaderboard compares app versions across metrics, latency, and cost.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Evaluation modes
Evaluations can run as traces arrive or in batch over a dataset.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Telemetry
TruLens operates on OpenTelemetry traces and can instrument custom Python apps or frameworks including LangGraph and LlamaIndex.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Integrations
The documentation lists integrations and providers for LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, MCP, OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, HuggingFace, LiteLLM, Google, and Snowflake Cortex.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Storage and deployment
TruLens can log to a local SQLite database by default or to a SQLAlchemy-compatible database URL, and it supports a Snowflake connector.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Security
TruLens documentation describes Snowflake connector authentication with browser-based SSO, key-pair authentication, OAuth tokens, and existing Snowpark sessions.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Notable limit
Conversation features are not supported with the SnowflakeConnector, including conversation grouping, conversation-level metrics, retrieval APIs, and dashboard views.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Support
The getting-started documentation points users to a community Slack.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026
Maker and maintenance
The TruLens site says the project was originally created by TruEra and that Snowflake actively maintains it as open source following the acquisition.trulens.org · 7 Oct 2026

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