LangSmith vs Braintrust

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

LangSmith LangChain's platform for tracing, evaluating and deploying agents Visit Braintrust Evals and production tracing for teams shipping AI agents Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.9 / 10 7.5 / 10
Capability 8 8
Value for money 7 7
Ease of use 8 7
ASEAN readiness 6 6
API quality 8 8
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier Developer: $0 for 1 seat with 5k base traces a month, then pay as you go Starter: $0 a month, unlimited users, $10 of model credits, 1 GB processed data, 10k scores, 14-day retention; no credit card
Paid from $39/seat/month (Plus, 10k base traces a month included), then usage $249/month (Pro, $100 of model credits) plus metered data and scores
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✗ ✗
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users — —
Founded 2023 2023
Maker LangChain Inc. —
Verdict

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,...

Braintrust has the most complete trace-to-dataset-to-experiment loop we have seen for teams that treat evaluation as engineering. Loop drafts scorers and datasets, Patterns surfaces recurring production failures, and Bra...

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