AI developer tools
The LLMOps stack - observability, gateways, evals, guardrails, fine-tuning platforms. What each costs, what's open source, and which have an affiliate programme.
checked 1 Sept 2026| Tool | Category | Pricing | From |
|---|---|---|---|
OSSself-hostaffiliate Open-source LLM tracing and evaluation, OpenTelemetry-native. | Observability & tracing | freemium · free tier | $50 |
OSSself-host Open-source observability proxy for LLM apps. | Observability & tracing | freemium · free tier | $20 |
OSSself-host Open-source LLM tracing, evals and prompt management. | Observability & tracing | freemium · free tier | $59 |
Tracing, evals and monitoring from the LangChain team. | Observability & tracing | freemium · free tier | $39 |
OSSself-host OpenLLMetry - open-source OpenTelemetry instrumentation for LLMs. | Observability & tracing | freemium · free tier | $59 |
affiliate LLM app tracing and evals inside Weights & Biases. | Observability & tracing | freemium · free tier | $50 |
Caching, rate-limiting and analytics in front of any LLM API. | LLM gateway | free · free tier | usage-based |
OSSself-host AI plugins for the Kong API gateway - routing, prompt guarding. | LLM gateway | freemium · free tier | usage-based |
OSSself-host Open-source proxy - one OpenAI-format API for 100+ providers. | LLM gateway | freemium · free tier | $250 |
OSSself-hostaffiliate AI gateway with routing, caching, guardrails and observability. | LLM gateway | freemium · free tier | $49 |
Evals, prompt playground and logging for LLM products. | Evaluation & testing | freemium · free tier | $249 |
OSS Hosted platform for the open-source DeepEval framework. | Evaluation & testing | freemium · free tier | $20 |
Automated evaluation and guardrails for LLM systems. | Evaluation & testing | enterprise · free tier | - |
OSSself-host Open-source CLI and library for LLM evals and red-teaming. | Evaluation & testing | freemium · free tier | usage-based |
OSSself-host Open-source LLMOps - prompt playground, evals, observability. | Prompt management | freemium · free tier | $49 |
OSSself-host Open-source prompt engineering platform with evals. | Prompt management | freemium · free tier | $40 |
Prompt registry, versioning and analytics for teams. | Prompt management | freemium · free tier | $50 |
OSSself-host Open-source framework for input/output validation of LLMs. | Guardrails & safety | freemium · free tier | usage-based |
affiliate Prompt-injection and content-safety API for LLM apps. | Guardrails & safety | freemium · free tier | $999 |
ML/LLM security - model scanning, LLM firewall, red-teaming. | Guardrails & safety | enterprise | - |
Fine-tune and deploy small models that beat GPT-4 on your task. | Fine-tuning platform | usage-based · free tier | usage-based |
OSS Fine-tune and serve open models (LoRA), built on Ludwig. | Fine-tuning platform | usage-based · free tier | usage-based |
Fine-tune Llama, Qwen and more, then serve on Together. | Fine-tuning platform | usage-based · free tier | usage-based |
OSSself-host Framework and cloud for orchestrating multi-agent crews. | Agent platform | freemium · free tier | usage-based |
OSSself-host Open-source platform for building and operating LLM apps/agents. | Agent platform | freemium · free tier | $59 |
Deploy and manage long-running, stateful agents. | Agent platform | freemium · free tier | $39 |
OSS Managed parsing, indexing and retrieval from LlamaIndex. | Agent platform | freemium · free tier | $50 |
OSSself-host Open-source data curation and feedback collection for LLMs. | Data & labeling | free · free tier | usage-based |
OSSself-host Open-source data labeling for every data type, incl. LLM RLHF. | Data & labeling | freemium · free tier | usage-based |
compare.hint · "affiliate" = a known partner programme, being confirmed as we join. Confirm pricing on the tool's site.