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24 alternatives to Stax

Move your LLM evals from vibes to data

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Plurai▲757

    Vibe-train evals and guardrails tailored to your use case

    Apr 2026 · plurai.ai · its alternatives →

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

    2024 · 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/throughput tests across providers - Quality vs price visualizations - Open source (all data verifiable) Try it out: https://llmstats.com I'd like to know your opinion :) Tech stack: Next.js,…

    Oct 2025 · llm-stats.com · 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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    LLMTest▲125

    Use the right LLMs in your apps. Setup fallbacks. Be happy.

    May 2026 · llmtest.io · its alternatives →

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    Openlit▲152

    One click observability & evals for LLMs & GPUs

    2024 · openlit.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We've been building a multi-model API for LLMs called OpenRouter since we launched the Window AI extension in April this year [0]. The events of the last week make it clear the LLM landscape is unpredictable, so LLM aggregators are picking up interest. Unlike others, we're making a router on top of a public, explorable dataset. We recently built a way to rank and visualize this data, including the token counts we see going to and from different models, both open-sourced (like Llama, Mistral, finetunes, and variants) and closed-sourced (OpenAI, Anthropic). The API supports - 50+…

    Apr 2026 · openrouter.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi folks. I've been doing some experiments on how LLMs could get more handy in the day to day of working with files (CSV, Parquet, etc). Earlier last year, I built https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datakit.page and evolved it over and over into an all in-browser experience with help of duckdb-wasm. Got loads of feedbacks and I think it turned into a good shape with being an adhoc local data studio, but I kept hearing two main things&#x2F;issues: Why can't the AI also change cells in the file we give to it? Why can't we modify this grid ourselves? So besides the whole READ and text-to-SQL flows, what seemed…

    Feb 2026 · opensheet.app · its alternatives →

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    all-in-one LLM evaluation platform

    2024 · confident-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’m the founder of Unify, and we’ve just released our Model Hub, which provides a collection of LLM endpoints with live runtime benchmarks all plotted across time: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unify.ai&#x2F;hub A key finding is that static tabular runtime benchmarks for LLMs simply do not work. It’s necessary to take a time-series perspective, and plot the variations through time. We currently have 21 models provided by: Anyscale, Perplexity AI, Replicate, Together AI, OctoAI, Mistral AI and OpenAI, with more on the roadmap. We test across different regions (Asia, US, Europe), with varied…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Vibe Training AI models

    Mar 2026 · its alternatives →

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    The LLM Evaluation Framework. Contribute to confident-ai/deepeval development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Run it: OPENROUTER_API_KEY="sk" npx bff-eval --demo We built a tool to help people take LLM outputs and easily grade them &#x2F; eval them to know how good an assistant response is. We've built a number of LLM apps, and while we could ship decent tech demos, we were disappointed with how they'd perform over time. We worked with a few companies who had the same problem, and found out scientifically building prompts and evals is far from a solved problem... writing these things feels more like directing a play than coding. Inspired by Anthropic's constitutional ai concepts, and amazing…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    folio▲74

    hi HN! a couple of months ago I had to analyze a few thousand audio recordings to help identify issues with customer support. i was able to get some raw high-level initial results with python scripts invoking LLM APIs, but they were too general and unhelpful. writing basic prompts is easy, but tuning them and making them specific enough to ensure no faint signal is missed is hard. you need to iterate through the data with an initial prompt, segment the data into different buckets, chain another prompt for each bucket etc. Then you need to constantly review the raw data to tweak the prompts…

    Apr 2026 · usefolio.ai · its alternatives →

  15. 15IG

    Data automation and visualization platform for spreadsheet users.

    2024 · columns.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're super excited to share something we've been working on: OpenLIT. After an engaging preview that some of you might recall, we are now proudly announcing our first stable release! *What's OpenLIT?* Simply put, OpenLIT is an open-source tool designed to make monitoring your Large Language Model (LLM) applications straightforward. It’s built on OpenTelemetry, aiming to reduce the complexities that come with observing the behavior and usage of your LLM stack. *Beyond Basic Text Generation:* OpenLIT isn’t restricted to just text and chatbot outputs. It now includes automatic…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Christmas project from a personal need to find ideal locations.

    2024 · godview.ai · its alternatives →

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    The LLM Evaluation Framework. Contribute to confident-ai/deepeval development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vibe check shares benchmarking insights on any vibe coded URLs like: Make, Lovable, Claude code, V0, etc. Provide a link and we'll share your 'time-to-value'. Provide a URL, set a challenge("Find pricing and subscribe") then AI navigates in real-time to report on UX insights: Interactions, time-on-task, drop-off, etc. What's cool about this is that it gives you some quantitive data to act upon in improving the UX of product journeys. Example of sim playback: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.appvelocity.io&#x2F;vibe&#x2F;simulation&#x2F;8321db67-883b-445... Example report:…

    Mar 2026 · vibecheck.appvelocity.io · its alternatives →

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    We built live AI evaluation to detect hallucinations, grounding issues, and drift as outputs are generated. This helps teams move GenAI from pilots into production.

    2025 · ragmetrics.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hello all! Very happy to share this toolkit that allows you to fine-tune your choice of open-source LLMs on your data! The toolkit also allows you to run ablation studies across LLMs, prompt designs, training configurations, and can ingest different data files -- all through just ONE YAML file! After fine-tuning, you can also run a bunch of tests to ensure that the fine-tuned LLM behaves as expected, enabling faster time-to-production! Why this toolkit? Why now? While closed-source LLMs have become popular for chat-based applications, enterprises are considering a shift to self-hosted SLMs…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The LLM Evaluation Framework. Contribute to confident-ai/deepeval development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source testing toolkit for LLM applications

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🐢 Open-Source Evaluation & Testing library for LLM Agents - Giskard-AI/giskard-oss

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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