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24 alternatives to LangSmith

Build and deploy LLM applications with confidence

LangSmith is a platform for developers building large language model applications. It provides tools to move LLM projects from prototype to production, helping manage the complexity of these systems. The platform is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. LangSmith launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    LLM application development, monitoring, and testing

    2024 · smith.langchain.com · its alternatives →

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    Ship AI apps with fewer surprises

    2024 · langtail.com · its alternatives →

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    The low-code platform for testing AI apps

    2024 · langtail.com · its alternatives →

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    Langfuse▲771

    Open source tracing and analytics for LLM applications

    2023 · langfuse.com · its alternatives →

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    LangWatch▲669

    Founder here. Langy is an AI engineer that lives inside our platform, LangWatch. It reads your production traces, writes Scenario tests and evaluations for the problems it finds, opens a pull request on your repo, and proves the fix by running those simulations in CI. A human still merges. Reachy robot from Hugging Face arrived on the same week we were planing on launching it, so we wanted to use for the launch. So we it wired to our Langy which actually lives on the platform, and asked it to test our own customer-support voice agent. On the video you can see it writing the agent tests…

    2024 · langwatch.ai · its alternatives →

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    LLM Spark▲365

    Dev platform for building production ready LLM apps

    2023 · yourgpt.ai · its alternatives →

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    Lingo.dev▲1,048

    ⚡️ Ship apps translated in every language, in minutes!

    2025 · lingo.dev · its alternatives →

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    Build AI-powered Agents -- in Minutes

    2025 · langflow.org · its alternatives →

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    Now with VSCode Extension & the latest LLMs

    2024 · getdevkit.com · its alternatives →

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    I spent a few hours last weekend testing whether AI can replace code by executing directly. Built a contact manager where every HTTP request goes to an LLM with three tools: database (SQLite), webResponse (HTML/JSON/JS), and updateMemory (feedback). No routes, no controllers, no business logic. The AI designs schemas on first request, generates UIs from paths alone, and evolves based on natural language feedback. It works—forms submit, data persists, APIs return JSON—but it's catastrophically slow (30-60s per request), absurdly expensive ($0.05/request), and has zero UI…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Unified DevOps platform to build AI applications

    2024 · respan.ai · its alternatives →

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    Appsmith▲435

    Open source internal app builder, ship 10X faster

    2023 · appsmith.com · its alternatives →

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    Llama 2▲263

    The next generation of Meta's open source LLM

    2023 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →

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    The from-scratch guide to building large language models in NodeJS.

    7d ago · book.humanexperiences.io · its alternatives →

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    Build LLM apps and plug AI into your team's operations

    2023 · n8n.io · its alternatives →

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    Arch▲314

    Hey HN — I’m Adil from Katanemo (with Salman, Shuguang, and Meiyu) We previously shared an early version of this project as ArchGW. Based on customer feedback, the scope expanded from “LLM routing and model access” into something broader: delivery infrastructure for agentic applications. We renamed it to Plano and reworked the architecture accordingly. The problem On-the-ground AI practitioners will tell you that calling an LLM is not the hard part. The really hard part is delivering agentic applications to production quickly and reliably, then iterating without rewriting system code every…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I made Browser-Use, an open-source tool that lets (all Langchain supported) LLMs execute tasks directly in the browser just with function calling. It allows you to build agents that interact with web elements using natural language prompts. We created a layer that simplifies website interaction for LLMs by extracting xPaths and interactive elements like buttons and input fields (and other fancy things). This enables you to design custom web automation and scraping functions without manual inspection through DevTools. Hasn't this been done a lot of times? Good question, as a general…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated resources related to deploying LLMs into production

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We're Gabriel & Viraj, and we're excited to open source TensorZero. To be a little cheeky, TensorZero is an open-source platform that helps LLM applications graduate from API wrappers into defensible AI products. 1. Integrate our model gateway 2. Send metrics or feedback 3. Unlock compounding improvements in quality, cost, and latency It enables a data & learning flywheel for LLMs by unifying: • Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead • Observability: inference & feedback → your database • Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies • Experimentation:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Find your best LLM for a local inference

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Langfuse is OSS observability and analytics for LLM applications (repo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;langfuse&#x2F;langfuse, 2 min demo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;langfuse.com&#x2F;video, try it yourself: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;langfuse.com&#x2F;demo) Langfuse makes capturing and viewing LLM calls (execution traces) a breeze. On top of this data, you can analyze the quality, cost and latency of LLM apps. When GPT-4 dropped, we started building LLM apps – a lot of them! [1, 2] But they all suffered from the same issue: it’s hard to assure quality in 100% of cases and even to have a clear view…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Improve your LLM apps with open-source observability tool

    2024 · langtrace.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I was a corporate lawyer for many years working with a lot of financial services and insurance companies. In practicing law, I noticed there was a lot of repetition in the tasks I was working on even as a highly paid attorney that could be automated. I wanted to solve the problem of dealing with a lot information and data in a practical way, using AI. This motivated me to start AI Bloks&#x2F;LLMWare with my husband, who had a deep background in software and is a very early adopter of AI. We have been on this journey with our open source project LLMWare for the past 4 months, producing a…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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