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Arize Phoenix vs LangSmith

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

LangSmith

LangChain's observability and eval platform.

  • + Best-in-class when you already use LangChain
  • + Strong tracing UX
  • − Proprietary and cloud-only
  • − Vendor lock-in to LangChain
Spec Arize Phoenix LangSmith
Role Observability Observability
Tags observability, evaluation, persona-data-scientist, persona-platform-engineer observability, evaluation, persona-data-scientist, persona-platform-engineer
License Elastic-2.0 Proprietary
Open source Yes No
Self-hostable Yes No
MCP support No No
Pricing free freemium
Price Free tier Free
Usage cost No model cost No model cost
Models multi multi
Languages python, typescript python, typescript
GitHub stars 10.4k —
Last activity 2026-07-04 —