Arize Phoenix vs LangSmith

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 LangSmith LangChain's platform for tracing, evaluating and deploying agents Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.8 / 10 7.9 / 10
Capability 8 8
Value for money 9 7
Ease of use 6 8
ASEAN readiness 8 6
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: $0 for 1 seat with 5k base traces a month, then pay as you go
Paid from Phoenix is free. Arize's managed AX Pro plan is $50/month $39/seat/month (Plus, 10k base traces a month included), then usage
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✓ ✗
Free to use ✓ ✓
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Founded 2023 2023
Maker Arize AI LangChain Inc.
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...

LangSmith is the most complete option for teams already on LangChain or LangGraph, where tracing works almost out of the box, and it is no longer tied to that stack: SDKs and OpenTelemetry bring in any framework. Evals,...

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