Arize Phoenix vs LangWatch

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Arize Phoenix Free, self-hosted LLM tracing and evaluation Visit LangWatch OpenTelemetry-native LLMOps for tracing, evals and agent simulation Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.8 / 10 7.5 / 10
Capability 8 7.5
Value for money 9 8
Ease of use 6 7.5
ASEAN readiness 8 6.5
API quality 8 8
Pricing Free Freemium
Free tier Self-host Phoenix free: no licence fees, usage limits or feature gates. Arize AX Free cloud tier: 25k spans, 1 GB ingest a month, 15-day retention Developer: free forever, 50k events/mo, 14-day data, 2 users, 3 scenarios/simulations/custom evals. Self-hosting free under Apache 2.0
Paid from Phoenix is free. Arize's managed AX Pro plan is $50/month Growth €29 (US$34) per core seat/mo + €5 per 100k events beyond 200k
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✓ ✓
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users — —
Founded 2023 —
Maker Arize AI Independent (LangWatch Reasoning Engine B.V.)
Verdict

Arize Phoenix is one of the most complete no-cost options for finding out why an agent or RAG pipeline behaved as it did: OpenTelemetry tracing, evals, datasets, experiments and a prompt playground, self-hosted with no f...

LangWatch has become a genuinely open-source LLMOps platform, with strong agent simulation, evaluation and gateway features and generous self-hosting terms. Its pricing advantage over rivals is argued in its own blog rat...

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