Pricing, privacy, features, integration friction, and the recommendation that follows from each table. The layout is intentionally dense: this page is meant to help a technically literate buyer decide quickly.
| Tool | Free Tier | Team/Pro | Enterprise | Free Tier Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forge | ✅ Full | N/A (Open Source) | Self-host | Unlimited (self-host) |
| Langfuse | ✅ | $59 → $249/mo | Custom | 50k observations / mo |
| AgentOps | ✅ | $79 → $199/mo | Custom | 10k events / mo |
| Helicone | ✅ | $99 → $299/mo | Custom | 100k requests / mo |
| LangSmith | ✅ | $99/mo | Custom | Basic tracing |
| Arize AI | ✅ | $199/mo | Custom | 50M inference rows / mo |
| Braintrust | ✅ | $249/mo | Custom | Unlimited eval runs |
| Voker | ✅ | Custom | Custom | 100k events / mo |
| Tool | Self-Host | Cloud-Only | SOC 2 | EU Hosting | Data Retention Control |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forge | ✅ Self-host | — | — | ✅ | ✅ Full |
| Langfuse | ✅ Self-host | ✅ Cloud | ✅ | ✅ EU | ✅ Configurable |
| AgentOps | ✅ Self-host | ✅ Cloud | — | — | ✅ Configurable |
| Helicone | — | ✅ Cloud | ✅ | — | — |
| LangSmith | — | ✅ Cloud | ✅ | — | — |
| Arize AI | — | ✅ Cloud | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ Configurable |
| Braintrust | ✅ Self-host | ✅ Cloud | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ Configurable |
| Tool | Real-Time Tracing | Cost Tracking | Guardrails | Agent Replay | Multi-Agent | Alerting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forge | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Langfuse | ✅ | ✅ | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
| AgentOps | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Helicone | ✅ | ✅ Best | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
| LangSmith | ✅ | ✅ | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
| Arize AI | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Braintrust | — | — | — | — | — | ✅ eval |
| Lightbox | — | — | — | ✅ Best | — | — |
| Tool | SDK Setup Time | LangChain | LlamaIndex | Custom Agent | OpenTelemetry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forge | ~10 min | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | — |
| Langfuse | ~15 min | ✅ Native | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| AgentOps | ~5 min | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | — |
| Helicone | ~10 min | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | — |
| LangSmith | ~15 min | ✅ Only | — | — | — |
| Braintrust | ~20 min | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | — |
| Lightbox | ~5 min | ✅ | — | ✅ | — |
You want full control and zero cost: open source, self-host, full features.
You need enterprise support and a path that feels safer in production reviews.
Per-request cost visibility is your top pain point.
You are debugging why the agent made a bad decision.