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24 alternatives to LLM Observatory

Real-time observability for Claude & OpenAI APIs

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs

    Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →

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    LLMonitor▲128

    Open source monitoring and production toolkit for AI apps

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Open-source LLM Observability for Developers

    2024 · helicone.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. We’re open-sourcing a set of extensions we’ve built on top of OpenTelemetry that provide visibility into LLM applications - whether it be prompts, vector DBs and more. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry. There’s already a decent number of tools for LLM observability, some open-source and some not. But what we found was missing for all of them is that they were closed-protocol by design, vendor-locking you to use their observability platform or their proprietary framework for running your LLMs. It’s still early in the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Aggregate uptime monitoring across OpenAI, Claude, and more

    Apr 2026 · tools.lamatic.ai · its alternatives →

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    Improve your LLM apps with open-source observability tool

    2024 · langtrace.ai · its alternatives →

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    Know before the outage impacts you

    2023 · status.portkey.ai · its alternatives →

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    Openlit▲152

    One click observability & evals for LLMs & GPUs

    2024 · openlit.io · its alternatives →

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    Evidently AIfree▲382

    Open-source evaluations and observability for LLM apps

    2024 · evidentlyai.com · its alternatives →

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    I recently built a small open-source tool to benchmark different LLM API endpoints — including OpenAI, Claude, and self-hosted models (like llama.cpp). It runs a configurable number of test requests and reports two key metrics: • First-token latency (ms): How long it takes for the first token to appear • Output speed (tokens/sec): Overall output fluency Demo: https://llmapitest.com/ Code: https://github.com/qjr87/llm-api-test The goal is to provide a simple, visual, and reproducible way to evaluate performance across different LLM providers, including…

    2025 · llmapitest.com · its alternatives →

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    traceAI▲273

    Open-source LLM tracing that speaks GenAI, not HTTP.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    If you've built any web-based app in the last 15 years, you probably used something like Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc. to monitor and trace your app, right? Why should it be different when the app you're building happens to be using LLMs? So today we're open-sourcing OpenLLMetry-JS. It's an open protocol and SDK, based on OpenTelemetry, that provides traces and metrics for LLM JS/TS applications and can be connected to any of the 15+ tools that already support OpenTelemetry. Here's the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry-js A few months ago we launched…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vibe-check many open-source and proprietary LLMs at once

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    LLM-usage observability and monitoring tool

    2025 · siloam.ai · 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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    Hi HN, Hugh and Vince here. LLMonitor helps you record, trace & search your LLM queries and chatbot conversations. You can also capture user feedback on your frontend and correlate it with backend LLM queries then use that to fine-tune your own models. The project started has an internal tool in our previous (failed) AI startup. We’re aware the LLM observability space is very crowded. Apart from being open-source, we differentiate with: - Model-agnostic and minimal lock-in (no MITM of requests). - High focus on DX and dashboard clarity. - Support for complex scenarios: e.g. a chatbot that…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LLM Stats▲293

    I was overspending on GPT-4o. It was really hard to compare different models I could switch to, so I built this LLM comparison tool. It shows leaderboards, pricing, and performance data across 100+ LLMs (including all major providers and open-source models). Key features: - Live pricing comparisons - Benchmark Scores (MMLU, HumanEval, GPQA, etc.) - Context length vs cost analysis - Speed&#x2F;throughput tests across providers - Quality vs price visualizations - Open source (all data verifiable) Try it out: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llmstats.com I'd like to know your opinion :) Tech stack: Next.js,…

    Oct 2025 · llm-stats.com · its alternatives →

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    Openlayer▲197

    Slack or email alerts for when your AI fails

    2023 · openlayer.com · its alternatives →

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    Taylor AI▲118

    Fine-tune open source LLMs in minutes

    2023 · trytaylor.ai · its alternatives →

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    Find your best LLM for a local inference

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    An open source Next app template to monitor your AI apps

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    TraceLLM▲100

    OpenTelemetry for production AI applications

    Jul 2026 · tracellm.in · its alternatives →

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    AI observability & cost intelligence for LLM apps

    Mar 2026 · nirixa.in · its alternatives →

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    Hi hacker news, My name is Dillion and I'm the creator of llm.report. A few months ago, I was frustrated by the lack of observability into the OpenAI API. All of us are left in the dark about API performance, latency, cost calculation, cost breakdown, and more. I just wanted to know more about how my AI app is performing in production and make data-driven decisions to improve the product. So I ended up just building it myself. There are three parts to the platform: 1. OpenAI API Dashboard (no-code) - Enter your OpenAI key and get access to detailed insights straight from the OpenAI API…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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