Helicone vs Langfuse vs LangSmith vs Braintrust
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Helicone
LLM observability via drop-in proxy
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Langfuse
Open-source LLM observability and analytics
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LangSmith
LLM observability and evaluation from the LangChain team
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Braintrust
LLM evaluation and prompt management for production
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 | 7.9 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Helicone is a developer-focused observability platform for LLM apps, providing request logging, tracing, cost and latency tracking, caching, and prompt management with a one-line proxy or async integration. It is open-so... |
Langfuse is a leading open-source LLM observability platform covering tracing, prompt management, evaluations, cost tracking and analytics, with framework-agnostic SDKs that work well alongside LangChain, LlamaIndex or r... |
LangSmith is LangChain's first-party platform for tracing, debugging, evaluating and monitoring LLM applications, with the tightest integration into LangChain and LangGraph of any observability tool. It suits teams alrea... |
Braintrust is an evaluation, observability and prompt-iteration platform for teams building LLM-powered products, offering systematic evals, logging, datasets, scoring and a playground that bring engineering rigour to ot... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.