Comparison

Arize Phoenix vs Lunary

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

Lunary

Open-source LLM observability and prompt management.

  • + Lightweight and self-hostable
  • + Clean prompt-management UI
  • − Smaller community
  • − Eval features basic
Spec Arize Phoenix Lunary
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
GitHub stars 10.3k
Last activity 2026-06-25