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Respan

Self-driving observability, evals, and an AI gateway for LLM agents.

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FREEMIUM
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Model-agnostic
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Jun 14, 2026

Respan is a unified LLM-engineering platform that routes, observes, and evaluates every model call from one control plane. Its AI gateway fronts 500+ models with fallbacks, load balancing, and spend caps; trace trees, dashboards, and alerts cover observability; and rule checks, AI judges, and human review run as one evaluation workflow. An automated eval agent surfaces issues from production traffic so teams can fix what breaks without stitching tools together.

Pros & cons

  • Gateway + observability + evals unified
  • 500+ models via one endpoint
  • Automated eval agent + human review
  • Spend caps and fallback routing
  • Generous free tier (100k logs)
  • Proprietary, no self-host option
  • Recent rebrand can confuse search
  • Team tier jumps to $199/mo

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