Directory — LLM Observability

Best LLM Observability Tools 2026 — Community Ranked

Compare and vote on the best LLM observability and monitoring platforms. Track costs, latency, traces, and quality across your AI applications.

14 tools
#1

LangSmith

Full Platform Most Popular

LangChain's official observability platform. Traces every LLM call, evaluates outputs, manages datasets, and monitors production runs.

Pros
  • Deep LangChain integration
  • Evaluation datasets
  • Production monitoring
  • Team features
Cons
  • Tied to LangChain ecosystem
  • Can be pricey at scale
LangChain Tracing Evaluation Datasets Free (5k traces/mo) + $39/mo
3,421 votes
#2

Helicone

Cost Monitoring Easiest Setup

One-line integration for LLM cost and usage tracking. Proxy-based, works with any OpenAI-compatible API, caching support.

Pros
  • One-line setup
  • Any LLM provider
  • Caching
  • Cost tracking
Cons
  • Proxy adds latency
  • Less evaluation features
Proxy Cost tracking Caching Any LLM Free (100k req/mo) + $20/mo
2,876 votes
#3

Weights & Biases

Full Platform Best Visualizations

The leading ML experiment tracking platform, now with full LLM observability, prompts, traces, and evaluation.

Pros
  • ML + LLM in one
  • Best visualizations
  • Team collaboration
  • Sweeps & hyperparameters
Cons
  • Heavy for LLM-only use
  • Cost at scale
ML tracking Experiments Prompts Evaluation Free + $50/mo Team
2,543 votes
#4

Arize AI

Full Platform Best Enterprise

Enterprise ML and LLM monitoring. Phoenix for OSS tracing, Arize for production monitoring - RAG evaluation built in.

Pros
  • Phoenix OSS version
  • RAG evaluation
  • Drift detection
  • Enterprise grade
Cons
  • Enterprise pricing
  • Complex setup
Enterprise RAG eval Drift detection Phoenix OSS Free Phoenix OSS + Enterprise
1,987 votes
#5

Phoenix (Arize)

Open Source Best OSS Local

Open-source LLM observability by Arize. Local traces, evaluation, embedding visualization - no cloud required.

Pros
  • Fully open source
  • Local first
  • Embedding viz
  • No data leaves
Cons
  • Less team features
  • Self-hosted
Open source Local Embeddings Arize Free / Open Source
1,654 votes
#6

Langfuse

Tracing Best Open Source

Open-source LLM engineering platform. Traces, evaluations, prompt management, datasets - self-hostable or cloud.

Pros
  • Open source
  • Self-hostable
  • Prompt management
  • Good UI
Cons
  • Less ML features
  • Smaller ecosystem
Open source Self-host Prompt management EU compliant Free cloud + self-host
2,187 votes
#7

Traceloop

Tracing OpenTelemetry Pick

OpenTelemetry-based LLM tracing. Integrates with existing observability stacks - Datadog, New Relic, Jaeger.

Pros
  • OpenTelemetry standard
  • Any observability stack
  • Open source SDK
  • Easy integration
Cons
  • Less LLM-specific features
  • Needs existing stack
OpenTelemetry Datadog New Relic Standard Free SDK + cloud plans
987 votes
#8

Opik (Comet)

Full Platform Best Hallucination Detection

Comet's open-source LLM evaluation and tracing platform. RAG evaluation, hallucination scoring, LLM-as-judge.

Pros
  • RAG evaluation
  • Hallucination scoring
  • LLM-as-judge
  • Open source
Cons
  • Newer product
  • Smaller community
RAG Hallucination LLM-as-judge Comet Free + $49/mo Pro
876 votes
#9

HoneyHive

Evaluation

LLM evaluation and observability platform focused on prompt engineering and A/B testing for production AI apps.

Pros
  • A/B testing prompts
  • Production evals
  • Human feedback
  • Integrations
Cons
  • Evaluation-focused
  • Less tracing depth
A/B testing Prompt eval Human feedback Free trial + $200/mo
654 votes
#10

Athina AI

Evaluation

Real-time LLM monitoring and evaluation. Automated quality checks, guardrails, and regression testing for LLM apps.

Pros
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Automated guardrails
  • Regression testing
  • Fast setup
Cons
  • Evaluation-focused
  • Newer platform
Real-time Guardrails Regression testing Free + $99/mo
543 votes
#11

Portkey

Cost Monitoring Best Gateway

LLM gateway with observability. Route traffic, cache responses, track costs, and get reliability with automatic retries and fallbacks.

Pros
  • Gateway + observability
  • Multi-LLM routing
  • Semantic caching
  • Fallbacks
Cons
  • Gateway adds latency
  • Cost feature focus
Gateway Routing Caching Multi-LLM Free (10k requests) + $49/mo
1,234 votes
#12

OpenLIT

Open Source

Open-source OpenTelemetry-native LLM observability. One-line integration, GPU monitoring, cost tracking, Grafana dashboards.

Pros
  • OpenTelemetry native
  • GPU monitoring
  • Grafana dashboards
  • Free
Cons
  • Self-hosted setup
  • Less managed features
OpenTelemetry GPU Grafana Free Free / Open Source
765 votes
#13

Parea AI

Evaluation

LLM evaluation and testing platform. Write automated tests for prompts, version control prompts, track regressions.

Pros
  • Prompt versioning
  • Automated testing
  • Regression tracking
  • Team features
Cons
  • Evaluation-first
  • Smaller company
Prompt versioning Testing Regression Free + $49/mo
432 votes
#14

PromptLayer

Cost Monitoring Best Prompt Registry

Log, search, and analyze all your LLM requests. Built-in prompt registry, A/B testing, and visual prompt editor.

Pros
  • Prompt registry
  • Visual editor
  • Search requests
  • A/B testing
Cons
  • OpenAI-focused
  • Less modern than newer tools
Prompt registry Search A/B testing Free + $25/mo Pro
876 votes