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Laminar

Open-source observability built for AI agents.

Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
APIWeb
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 13, 2026

An observability and evals platform purpose-built for AI agents: one-line OpenTelemetry-native tracing across SDKs like the Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain and browser agents, plus an evals SDK/CLI for local and CI runs. Self-host the Apache-2.0 stack or use Laminar Cloud to debug long-running agent failures.

Pros & cons

  • Apache-2.0, self-hostable
  • One-line OpenTelemetry tracing
  • Built for long-running agents
  • Tracing + evals in one platform
  • Younger than LangSmith/Langfuse
  • Smaller ecosystem and integrations
  • Self-host adds infra overhead

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  • View Langfuse details
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    Langfuse

    Langfuse

    Open-source LLM observability. Self-hostable, OpenTelemetry-native.

    Tracing, evals, prompt management, and dataset tooling for LLM apps — self-host on your own infra or use Langfuse Cloud. The open-source default when you want full ownership of your observability stack.

    Worth knowing

    Y Combinator W23 startup; acquired by ClickHouse in January 2026.

    • open-source
    • tracing
    • evals
    • self-hosted
  • View LangSmith details
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    LangSmith

    LangChain

    LangChain's hosted observability + eval platform.

    Tracing, dataset management, eval orchestration, and prompt playground from the LangChain team. Pairs naturally if LangChain or LangGraph already runs in your stack, but works standalone via SDKs.

    Worth knowing

    LangChain's primary commercial product and revenue driver behind its 2025 $1.25B unicorn valuation.

    • tracing
    • evals
    • datasets
    • langchain
  • View Helicone details
    ObservabilityFREEMIUMOpen core

    Helicone

    Helicone

    Drop-in LLM proxy with logging, caching, and cost tracking.

    One-line integration — change your OpenAI/Anthropic base URL and get a dashboard with every prompt, response, latency, and dollar tracked. Adds caching and rate-limit handling without code changes.

    Worth knowing

    YC W23 startup acquired by docs platform Mintlify in March 2026, having processed over 14 trillion tokens for 16,000+ orgs.

    • proxy
    • logging
    • caching
    • cost-tracking
  • View Arize Phoenix details
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    Arize Phoenix

    Arize AI

    LLM tracing + evaluation. Strong on retrieval debugging.

    Phoenix is Arize's observability platform — run locally in a notebook or as a hosted service. Especially strong for inspecting RAG pipelines, finding bad chunks, and tracking retrieval quality over time.

    Worth knowing

    Licensed under Elastic License 2.0 (source-available), not OSI open-source — despite its open GitHub repo.

    • tracing
    • rag
    • retrieval-debugging