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Best LangSmith alternatives

5 tools developers use instead of LangSmith, ranked by popularity. 5 offer a free plan and 4 are open source. Updated October 2026.

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  1. Arize Phoenix logo

    Arize Phoenix

    Free plan Open source

    Open-source LLM observability and evaluation platform built on OpenTelemetry, with tracing, datasets, experiments and prompt tooling.

  2. Langfuse logo

    Langfuse

    Free plan Open source

    Open-source LLM observability platform for tracing, evaluating, and debugging prompts and agent runs, self-hostable or available as a managed cloud service.

  3. W&B Weave logo

    W&B Weave

    Free plan Open source

    Weights & Biases toolkit for tracing, evaluating and monitoring LLM applications, with automatic call logging and scorers.

  4. Braintrust logo

    Braintrust

    Free plan

    Evaluation-first platform for LLM applications, treating prompt and model changes like code changes that need regression tests before shipping.

  5. Helicone logo

    Helicone

    Free plan Open source

    Open-source LLM observability proxy that sits between your app and a model provider, logging requests, costs, and latency with a one-line integration change.