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Observability for LLM and agent apps, from the Pydantic team.

Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
APIWeb
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 9, 2026

An observability platform that traces your whole application stack — LLM calls, agents, databases, and HTTP — not just the model layer. The Python/JS/Rust SDKs are open source and built on OpenTelemetry, while the hosted backend handles storage, querying, and dashboards. Free tier covers 10M spans per month.

Capabilities 1

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • LLM observability (primary capability)

Pros & cons

  • OpenTelemetry-based, portable traces
  • Open-source SDK (Python/JS/Rust)
  • Traces whole stack, not just LLM calls
  • Free tier covers 10M spans/month
  • Hosted backend is proprietary
  • Newer than established APM tools
  • Less LLM-specific eval tooling

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