End-to-end evaluation, prompt playground, and observability platform for teams shipping LLM products — the tool most AI teams pick when spreadsheets stop scaling and vibes stop being enough.
End-to-end evaluation, prompt playground, and observability platform for teams shipping LLM products — the tool most AI teams pick when spreadsheets stop scaling and vibes stop being enough.
Braintrust is a full stack for building, evaluating, and monitoring LLM-powered features. Its evaluation framework (Eval SDK for Python and TypeScript) lets teams define test suites with datasets, scoring functions (LLM-as-judge, code-based, custom), and experiments; runs are visualized in a UI that makes regressions between prompt or model versions immediately obvious. The Playground gives PMs and engineers a shared surface to compare prompts across models side-by-side and turn winning versions into deployed prompts. Braintrust Logs collects production traces from any LLM app (via OpenAI/Anthropic/OpenTelemetry integrations or direct SDK) and makes it easy to spot failing conversations, pull them into a dataset, and re-run experiments to close the loop. Higher tiers add prompt deployment, human review workflows, and custom scoring at scale. Pricing has a generous Free tier (individual dev use, limited experiments and logs), Pro at $249/mo, and Enterprise plans with SSO, VPC, HIPAA, and higher data limits. Braintrust has become a de facto standard among AI product teams — Notion, Coda, Airtable, Stripe, and many others use it — because it treats LLM evaluation with the same rigor traditional software teams give to unit tests and observability.
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Braintrust is strongest when an AI product team wants evaluation, observability, and regression testing in one operating loop rather than another dashboard nobody uses.
Describe a quality issue in plain English (e.g., 'responses are too formal') and Loop analyzes your production traces to generate 12 candidate prompt variations targeting that specific problem. The agent learns from evaluation outcomes, so each cycle improves on the last rather than starting from scratch. This is the core differentiator versus every other observability tool in our directory.
Captures every LLM call with full input/output, latency, token costs, and metadata across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 20+ providers. Traces are searchable and filterable, and become the raw material the Loop agent uses for optimization. Free tier supports 1K eval rows/month with 14-day retention; Pro is unlimited with 30-day retention.
Define automated quality scorers — accuracy, helpfulness, tone, factuality, custom business metrics — that run on every production trace or eval batch. Scorers can be LLM-as-judge, code-based, or human-rated, and feed back into Loop for targeted optimization. Catches regressions before they reach users and quantifies prompt changes objectively.
Curate evaluation datasets directly from production traces, marking real user interactions as test cases rather than relying on synthetic examples. Datasets version automatically and integrate with CI/CD pipelines for regression testing. This grounds evaluation in real user behavior and edge cases that synthetic tests typically miss.
Run multiple prompt variations or model providers in parallel and compare results across all your scorers in a single dashboard. Useful for vendor selection (OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google), prompt iteration, and cost/quality trade-off decisions. Outputs are diff-able at the row level so you can see exactly where two configurations diverge.
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