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Arize Phoenix vs Laminar

A like-for-like, spec-level comparison. Both entries are verified against their docs and repo.

Arize Phoenix

Open-source LLM tracing and eval.

  • + Open source with OTel foundations
  • + Good LLM-as-a-judge evals built in
  • − Elastic license restricts some hosted offerings
  • − Enterprise features in the paid Arize cloud

Laminar

Open-source observability and eval for AI agents.

  • + Open source with a Rust core for performance
  • + Built-in eval and datasets
  • − Smaller community
  • − Newer project
Spec Arize Phoenix Laminar
Category eval-observability eval-observability
License Elastic-2.0 Apache-2.0
Open source Yes Yes
Self-hostable Yes Yes
MCP support No No
Pricing free freemium
Starting price Self-host free Self-host free
Models multi multi
Languages python, typescript typescript, rust
GitHub stars 10.3k 3.0k
Last activity 2026-06-25 2026-06-25