Arize AX vs Arthur

Arize AX is a platform for improving AI agents by turning production behavior into investigations, evaluations, and experiments. Signal surfaces important issues, helps identify causes, and prepares fixes for review. Managed Agents can investigate failing traces, fix repository bugs, automate recurring checks, or be created from scratch. Swarm Observability tracks status and performance across an agent swarm in real time. Agent-as-a-Judge uses telemetry to produce scalable evaluations that can surface unknown failures, while end-to-end experiments help validate changes. Integrations include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google GenAI, Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and Vercel AI SDK; tracing follows OpenInference conventions and OpenTelemetry. AX Free costs nothing and includes 10 Signal issues/month, 25k trace spans/month, 1 GB ingestion/month, and 15-day retention. AX Pro costs $50 a month, with 25 Signal issues/month, 50k trace spans/month, 10 GB ingestion/month, and 30-day retention. Enterprise pricing is custom. Self-hosted deployment keeps observability data, authentication, APIs, and UI within customer infrastructure; air-gapped deployment is available.

Arthur helps enterprises find AI agents across their environments and provides tools to observe and govern them. Discovery sensors monitor OpenTelemetry streams, MCP servers, network traffic, cloud APIs, and employee endpoints. The platform traces agent steps, tool calls, retrieved context, costs, latency, and behavior over time. Its governance features apply machine-checkable policies and provide real-time guardrail verdicts for prompt injection, PII exposure, restricted models, and off-policy tool use. Deployment options include hosted SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid; for hybrid setups, the evals engine runs beside customer workloads so sensitive data stays in the environment. Arthur lists RBAC, SSO, and deployed engineering support with every deployment option. Documented integrations include OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LiteLLM, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents, Google ADK, AWS Bedrock, and Mastra. The Free plan is free, with up to four use cases, two projects, and seven-day data retention. Premium is $60 a month; Enterprise pricing is custom.