Comet ML vs Opik vs Arize Phoenix vs Weights & Biases
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Comet ML
ML experiment tracking + LLM observability
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Opik
Open-source LLM tracing, evals and guardrails you can self-host
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Arize Phoenix
Open-source LLM evaluation and observability
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Weights & Biases
The near-default MLOps platform, now with CoreWeave inference
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Ease of use | — | |||
| ASEAN readiness | — | |||
| API quality | — | |||
| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | — | Free 'Basics' tier: ~5 model seats, 5GB storage, 1GB/mo Weave ingestion |
| Paid from | — | — | — | Pro from $60/mo (teams <50); usage billed for storage/Weave/inference |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | 1,400+ organizations (incl. AstraZeneca, NVIDIA) |
| Founded | 2017 | — | 2023 | 2017 |
| Maker | — | — | — | CoreWeave (acquired 2025) |
| Verdict | Comet ML is a well-established MLOps platform for experiment tracking, model registry, production monitoring and, increasingly, LLM evaluation/observability via its open-source Opik project. It is a credible Weights &... |
Opik is the rare open-source LLM observability tool where the free self-hosted version isn't a stripped-down teaser — Comet's own docs describe it as the same codebase as the hosted product. Tracing, LLM-as-a-judge evalu... |
Arize Phoenix is an open-source observability and evaluation toolkit for LLM and AI applications, offering tracing, prompt and RAG debugging, evals, and OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation that runs locally or self-hoste... |
W&B is close to default infrastructure for ML teams — its experiment-tracking SDK is the sticky part, logging runs, metrics, and artifacts with a few lines of code. Weave extends that to LLM and agent observability w... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.